One group that could help 2022 statewide Democratic candidates is Georgia's rural Black voters. They helped Stacey Abrams get close in 2018 and later pushed two Democratic U.S. senators to victory.
After several grueling election cycles, many voters are tired and organizers are trying to combat that.
More than 50,000 people have registered in Southwest Georgia since 2018. The majority are non-white, the New Georgia Project says. And even while Democrats in racially diverse rural communities in the South turned out more voters in the 2020 presidential election than in 2016, turnout for Trump soared"This is a both/and strategy. I think some people want to use it as an either/or," says Andra Gillespie, a professor of political science at Emory University.