A Fox News presidential poll released this evening (August 28) shows Vice President Kamala Harris surging past Donald Trump in Georgia.
The state was solid red until Joe Biden defeated Trump there in 2020 and fellow Democrats Raphael Warnock and Jon Osoff flipped both of Georgia’s U.S. Senate seats in 2021 and 2022.
According to the poll, which has a margin of error of 3 percent, Harris recorded 50 percent and Trump 48.
Given that usually-red Georgia has shifted towards Harris and is virtually anybody’s state at the moment, don’t be surprised if there’s some movement towards Harris in all or most of the other swing states (Arizona, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Nevada).
In 2020, Biden defeated Trump in the Peachtree state by 11,779 votes.
Harris is not focused on flipping districts in Georgia; she simply hopes to equal or improve upon Biden’s numbers from four years ago, district by district and specifically in the rural areas. For example, if Biden lost a Georgia district by 20 percentage points four years ago, Harris would like to cut Trump’s margin of victory there in 2024 while keeping pace with or outperforming Biden in the districts he carried.
If Trump fails to win Georgia, his path to victory narrows considerably. Should he cede the state, he’d have to carry North Carolina again and flip Pennsylvania, Arizona, and Nevada to reach 270.
Per CNN, Harris, who’s making a strong play for the state, has 24 field offices in Georgia while Trump has only 12.
