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Since the resumption of the electoral campaign, after the conventions of August, the Democratic candidate, Joe Biden, has focused most of his travels on the states of the “Rust Belt” which had tipped in favor of Donald Trump in 2016: Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. He is currently slightly ahead of the outgoing president according to poll averages calculated by the sites RealClearPolitics and FiveThirtyEight. He also visited Florida and Ohio, two states won by Donald Trump in 2016 but where Barack Obama won in 2008 and 2012.
Tuesday, October 27, the former vice-president went on the offensive by holding two meetings in Georgia. The last Democrat to win in this southern state was Bill Clinton, then governor of Arkansas, in 1992. Governor of Georgia before his election to the presidency, Jimmy Carter also won in 1976 and 1980.
This foray into the most populous southern state of the “Deep South”, in the acceptance that does not include Florida or Texas, is a gamble as the gap is tight between the two main candidates. “ If we win in Georgia, we’ll win it all ยป, Assured the former vice-president who hammered home his message of unity by going near hot springs once frequented by a tutelary figure in American history, President Franklin Roosevelt (1933-1945).
He puts Donald Trump on the defensive after the latter had won by more than five points in 2016 in this state. In the mid-term elections in 2018, that for the seat of governor was played with only 55,000 votes for the benefit of Republican Brian Kemp.
Joe Biden’s calculation in Georgia is not limited to the presidential election, however. In fact, two seats for the United States Senate are also at stake on November 3. The presence of small candidates and an internal battle between Republicans for one of the two seats could prevent two candidates from obtaining the minimum of 50% of the votes required to be elected. In this hypothesis, a second round would therefore be organized on January 5, with the potential consequences of increased uncertainty about the Republican majority in the Senate. That of the Republicans holds for the moment at only three seats.
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