Over the weekend, Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign launched a new initiative called Republicans for Harris. The effort seeks to win over Republican voters who are looking for an alternative to former President Donald Trump. The coalition has already garnered support from prominent Republicans, including Olivia Troye, a homeland security adviser in the Trump administration. She spoke with GPB's Pamela Kirkland.
Thousands of Trump supporters flocked to the Georgia State Convocation Center to hear the former president speak at the same venue where Vice President Kamala Harris held a rally earlier in the week.
On Friday, four days after Georgia Democrats began warning that bad actors could abuse the state’s new online portal for canceling voter registrations, the secretary of state’s office acknowledged to ProPublica that it had identified multiple such attempts — including unsuccessful efforts to cancel the registrations of two prominent Republicans, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris just held dueling rallies four days apart in the same Georgia location. There were distinct differences at each event on policy, tone, the types of voters in attendance and even the music playlists. It's a snapshot in a way of how a divided nation might embrace a Trump comeback or a Harris ascension.
A group trying to energize conservative women visited Atlanta on Thursday as part of a national bus tour ahead of former President Donald Trump’s Atlanta rally set for Saturday.
A newly formed state Senate committee will look to ensure that female athletes have the right to participate on an even basis with their males counterparts.
For the week ending Aug. 2, the senators focused on investigating the abuse pregnant women face in prisons, helping improve military housing conditions, aiding youth substance abuse programs, and tackling the national housing crisis.
During the Civil Rights Movement, young people put their bodies on the line as Freedom Riders, boarding buses to protest segregation. One of those riders spoke to young leaders in Atlanta as Democrats adjust to the entry of Vice President Kamala Harris in the presidential race.
Georgia election officials are encouraging people to use a state website to cancel voter registrations when someone moves out of state or dies. But Monday's rollout by Republican Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was marred by a glitch that allowed people to access a voter's date of birth, driver's license number and last four numbers of a Social Security number.
A rally for Vice President Kamala Harris in Georgia will show how Asian American voters are pivotal there. In metropolitan Atlanta, Harris' Indian roots sparked kitchen-table conversations in many households. Advocates are energized. A drive out to Atlanta's sprawling suburbs shows why.
Now that President Joe Biden has bowed out of the race and Vice President Kamala Harris is the likely nominee, Democrats say they have new hope for Georgia. They're betting a fresh burst of energy and a surge in fundraising has helped make Georgia a toss-up again. Harris plans a show of political force Tuesday in Atlanta.
