Georgia is in position to put both President Biden and former president Donald Trump over the top in electoral delegates to clinch their respective party nominations. That will set up an expensive and bitter General Election campaign in the fall.
Timothy Head, executive director of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, tells AFN he expects Georgia to be among several swing states in the November election.
“And so engagement, even in a primary when it's not a competitive primary now, it's still critically important for both campaigns, frankly," he observes.
With a population of 11 million, Georgia has 16 electoral votes in the Electoral College. Biden officially won those electoral votes in 2020 by approximately 11,800 votes, less than 1%.
There is also the ongoing legal fight involving Fani Willis, the Fulton County district attorney, who was pursuing Trump until her past caught up to her. Now her already-questionable case against Trump is in jeopardy along with her own legal career.
One more event in Georgia, Head says, is the murder of University of Georgia student Laken Riley.
Because her alleged killer is an illegal alien from Venezuela, the tragic incident is highlighting other American citizens killed by illegal aliens in light of record-breaking numbers who have crossed into the U.S. during Biden’s term.
Democrats want the American public to ignore Riley’s death and the preventable circumstances behind it, Head warns, as if her tragic murder is a “political commodity” that hurts them politically.
“So I do think it's important for a lot of people, not just in this case but across the country,” he says, “to understand that illegal immigration can have very real consequences, and sometimes very tragic ones.”
