Early voters in Georgia’s DeKalb and Forsyth areas come down firmly on either side of America’s political divide
People queue to cast ballots in Dekalb County, Georgia, where early voting for the US presidential election opened last week. A record 310,000 votes were cast on day one. Photograph: Erik S Lesser/EPAStreet lights flicker as dawn becomes day and the birdsong from the autumnal oaks is interrupted by the growing hum of those quintessentially American yellow schoolbuses and other traffic as this portion of DeKalb County comes to life.
US election: ‘It is going to be a close race… We feel this incredible responsibility to get it right’ Thalia and Kris, a couple in their 30s, have brought their four-month-old daughter, Soleil, along with them to vote. Kris, a diamond broker, also notes the growing political “divide” and is keen to do his part given “all the things that are at stake”.
“The average income you need to live comfortably now is drastically different to what it used to be,” adds Kris.“I think she and the other representatives are much more able and competent,” adds Kris, who says some of the “closest people to us” will vote for Donald Trump but nobody is letting politics “get in the way of how we feel about each other”.
In one of them, Forsyth County, about 20 miles north of Dunwoody, voters are coming quick and fast to the Cumming election office. The sentiment here appears to be the opposite of that in Dunwoody, with Trump seemingly on course to repeat, or even better, the two-thirds vote share he won in 2020. For Herd, securing the borders and lowering the price of food and goods are important. He says grants distributed by the Biden administration after the pandemic added to inflation, sending interest rates “through the roof” and leaving him questioning if his kids will ever be able to buy a home.Herd also believes Trump would be “way better” on the diplomatic front by seeking to find solutions to conflicts rather than throwing “millions and billions of dollars” into them.
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