Kamala Harris voters in Atlanta are worried that Georgia will turn red again in the 2024 elections.
Several residents who just cast their ballots for vice president told DailyMail.com they are “nervous” because there isn’t as much enthusiasm among Democratic voters in the Peach State as there was in 2020.
“I think it will go for Trump,” said Amy, a 62-year-old accountant in Atlanta.
When asked why she feels this way, she said, “Because people are stupid. No, I don’t think it’s going well.’
“I just don’t know if the enthusiasm is there,” she added as she left the Buckhead Public Library on Wednesday after casting her vote for VP Harris.
Georgia went blue by a razor-thin margin in 2020, with Joe Biden earning 49.5 percent of the vote, compared to Donald Trump’s 49.2 percent — a difference of just 0.3 percentage points. In 2016, Trump defeated Hillary Clinton in Georgia by a more demanding margin of 5.1 percent.
Cantey Dogan, 35, is a gynecologist in Atlanta, Georgia, who voted for Kamala Harris during early voting at the Buckhead Public Library on Wednesday. She told DailyMail.com that she is “nervous” that Donald Trump will win Georgia
This year, the polls show Trump and Harris in either a dead tie or a statistical dead heat, with the gap between the candidates falling within the survey’s margin of error.
Most polls in recent days show Trump slightly ahead of the vice president, which is in line with trends in other states and countries, leaving Harris behind in the countdown to Election Day.
The Peach State is one of seven swing states that will determine the outcome of the 2024 election.
Without the voter enthusiasm that was there four years ago to get Trump out of the White House, Harris supporters don’t think it will be enough to get their favorite candidate across the finish line — at least not in Georgia.
Cantey Dogan, who voted for Harris, told DailyMail.com that she believes the increase in the cost of living over the past four years will tip the scales towards Trump on November 5.
The 35-year-old gynecologist said: “I’m more nervous (this time).”
“I was really optimistic that Georgia would flip in the last election,” she added. “And I think the cost of living has gone up and inflation has gone up. You can see it in the supermarket, just like the prices.’
“I think that makes it harder for people not to vote for Trump this time,” Dogan concluded. “So I’m a little more nervous this time. So we’ll see what happens.’
Early voting in Georgia began on October 15 and runs through November 1. Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said the number of votes in the state surpassed 2 million after polls closed on Wednesday.
Early voting started on October 15 and runs until November 1 in Georgia. The polling stations will then open again on November 5 for election day
Jermaine Burrell, a 48-year-old entrepreneur, voted for Harris and said he was voting for “anyone but Trump” — a common phrase shared by Democratic voters in the Buckhead neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia
Vice President Kamala Harris campaigns at a church in Stonecrest, Georgia on her 60th birthday on October 20, 2024
The vast majority of voters at the Buckhead Library in the wealthy North Atlanta neighborhood told DailyMail.com on Wednesday that they voted for Harris.
What was once a more affluent, conservative area saw a surge in voter registration in the last election, and in 2020, 60 percent of voters in the Buckhead area cast their ballots for Biden. This is an increase of 9 percent compared to the 51 percent who voted blue. Clinton in 2016.
The shifts we see in Buckhead appear to be mirrored in some Atlanta suburbs, with some northern districts moving from red to blue from 2016 to 2020.
A rare Trump voter in the Democratic region said he name-checked Trump based purely on the policy differences between the former president and vice president.
Lance, 43, said he voted for Trump in 2016 and then chose not to vote in 2020.
The Atlanta-area lawyer said Wednesday that Democrats had a chance to earn his vote if they held primaries after President Joe Biden decided to end his re-election bid on July 21 rather than have the party name Harris as its 2024 candidate .
Trump held a rally just 30 miles from Atlanta in Duluth, Georgia, on Wednesday evening.
The two candidates are storming the seven swing states to present their final arguments for why they should become president.
The seven swing states that remain up in the air this election cycle are: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
Kimberly Graham, 52, told DailyMail.com that she was voting for “someone other than Trump.”
Donald Trump rallied thousands of supporters in the Atlanta suburb of Duluth, Georgia, on Wednesday evening amid early voting efforts and with less than two weeks until Election Day
“I feel like he’s just created a lot of chaos in the country, and it’s sad to see people being torn apart,” the Harris voter said.
Jermaine Burrell, a 48-year-old entrepreneur, felt the same way as Graham, but also said he became more excited to vote when Harris took over Biden’s campaign.
“Anyone but Trump,” Burrell said — a common phrase shared by Democratic voters in Buckhead.
“I wasn’t really super excited about Biden,” he revealed.
“But also super excited about Kamala – the opportunity for my first female president, and certainly the first African-American woman,” he continued. ‘That also gives me some tension.’