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Republican Gov. Brian Kemp<\/a> of Georgia, celebrating a comfortable re-election victory, joked that “it looks like the reports of my political death have been greatly exaggerated.”<\/p>\n

The conservative governor topped Democratic challenger Stacey Abrams last November in a rematch of their razor-thin 2018 gubernatorial showdown, as Republicans swept all the statewide offices decided on election night and kept their majorities in both houses of the legislature.<\/p>\n

But a month later, Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock<\/a> narrowly edged Republican challenger and University of Georgia football legend Herschel Walker to secure a full six-year term representing the Peach State in the Senate.<\/p>\n

The Kemp and Warnock split decision exemplified Georgia’s tilt toward the center. Once a reliably red state, Georgia has transformed into a premiere general election battleground in statewide contests.<\/p>\n

HOW RON DESANTIS AND FLORIDA REPUBLICANS TOOK CONTROL OF THE SUNSHINE STATE<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In 2020, President Biden<\/a> won Georgia\u2019s 16 electoral votes, thanks to a razor-thin victory over then-President Donald Trump, to become the first Democrat in over a quarter-century to carry the state in a presidential contest. And two months later, Warnock and fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff secured narrow victories to sweep Georgia\u2019s twin Senate runoff elections. The wins \u2014 the first by any Democrat in a Senate election in Georgia in 20 years \u2014 gave their party the majority in the chamber.<\/p>\n

HOW THIS ONETIME SWING STATE IN AMERICA’S HEARTLAND TURNED BRIGHT RED<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

So what happened in Georgia?<\/p>\n

Veteran Georgia-based political scientist M.V. (Trey) Hood noted that “there\u2019s a continuing demographic shift” which he says is “having an effect.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hood, director of the University of Georgia\u2019s<\/a> survey research center, pointed to the “increasing number of racial minorities living” in Atlanta\u2019s suburbs and exurbs. He also noted that “you\u2019ve got a lot of in-migration from other states, especially outside of the South\u2026 Those people tend to be \u2014 at least from what we can tell \u2014 Democrats rather than Republicans.”<\/p>\n

Hood also spotlighted ticket splitting. “There are a small number of people willing to split their tickets… not a whole lot, but it doesn\u2019t take a whole lot,” he said.<\/p>\n

Some credit needs to go to Democratic organizers and activists who put in the hard work in the 2020 and 2022 cycles to mobilize hundreds of thousands of new voters, which helped put Biden, Warnock (twice) and Ossoff over the top.<\/p>\n

Former Georgia Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan noted that “the Democrats did certainly figure out how to sign up with a higher level of intensity that Republicans did.” He also criticized the state GOP for being “asleep at the wheel.”<\/p>\n

But Duncan, a vocal conservative critic of Trump, also placed plenty of blame on the former president<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“Georgia\u2019s State House, State Senate, and all eight statewide constitutional officers continue to be dominated by Republicans. The only thing that makes us purple is our two U.S. senators. And that has one common denominator \u2014 that\u2019s Donald Trump got involved in those elections,” Duncan told Fox News. “And I think Georgians have figured this out quicker than the rest of the country \u2014 as far as Republicans, we like conservative, but we don\u2019t like crazy.”<\/p>\n

Trump encouraged and backed Walker\u2019s controversial Senate run. Plenty of Republicans in the Peach State argue that if the GOP had a different Senate nominee last year, Warnock would have likely gone down to defeat.<\/p>\n

But Duncan looks to Kemp\u2019s resounding victory last November over the well-financed Abrams and sees plenty of hope for Republicans going forward.<\/p>\n

“He just continued to put on display what steady, conservative leadership looks like,” Duncan emphasized.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/how-onetime-reliably-red-state-transformed-key-general-election-battleground <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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