In Clear Sign of Momentum for Keisha Lance Bottoms, Democrats Outvoted Republicans on Primary Day

In Clear Sign of Momentum for Keisha Lance Bottoms, Democrats Outvoted Republicans on Primary Day

Reporting from The Georgia Recorder details how “Democratic voters eclipsed Republicans during Georgia’s election,” pulling “more than 1 million ballots to Republicans’ nearly 940,000, or about 52.6% to 45.4%.” In elections with two competitive primaries, Democrats have not seen that edge over Republicans in Georgia since 1998, when Democrats won the Governor’s Mansion.

It’s “another piece of evidence of… the strength of Keisha Lance Bottoms” who has voters “ready to line up” behind her as she sails into the general miles ahead of Rick Jackson and Burt Jones, who are stuck in a nasty runoff for another 3 weeks.

Read more below about the Democratic energy behind Keisha Lance Bottoms: 

Georgia Recorder: Democratic voters eclipsed Republicans during Georgia’s election. What does that mean for November?

• Last week’s primary election didn’t feature any races with both a Democrat and a Republican on the ballot, but Georgia Democrats still feel like they won.

• In all, Democrats pulled more than 1 million ballots to Republicans’ nearly 940,000, or about 52.6% to 45.4%.

• Democratic Party of Georgia Chairman Charlie Bailey said that margin is the biggest for Democrats since 1998 and shows that voters are ready to line up in November behind candidates like U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff and former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, the Democratic nominees for U.S. Senate and Georgia governor.

• “It’s just another piece of evidence of growing Democratic momentum, the work of the party, the strength of Jon Ossoff, the strength of Keisha Lance Bottoms coming into this governor’s race,” he said. “People are fed up with (Republicans), and what those numbers in the primary tell you is that that momentum is building towards November, when they’re going to vote these Republicans out.”

• In 2018, a midterm year with President Donald Trump in the White House and an open race for Georgia governor at the top of the ticket, Republicans pulled more ballots than Democrats by about 52% to 48%.

• “What it connotes or implies is that Democratic candidates are capturing the imagination of voters in ways that, if this energy can be sustained, could be helpful for them in terms of flipping seats nationally, and in Republican states like Georgia, narrowing those margins between Democrats and Republicans, even in contests where Republicans are the odds-on favorite,” she said.

• The difference in ballots is even more notable because Republicans had more high-profile races, said University of Georgia political science professor Trey Hood.

• Results also show demographics that tend to favor Democratic candidates in Georgia.

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