Biden Campaign, Dem Donors Appear to Concede Georgia To Trump

Biden Campaign, Dem Donors Appear to Concede Georgia To Trump


Donald Trump has yet to secure the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, but if months’ worth of polls can be believed, he is certainly the frontrunner among the remaining Republican field, and by a lot.

That said, President Joe Biden’s campaign, along with a host of Democratic donors, already appears to have surrendered a key swing state to him — or the eventual GOP nominee.

“The Biden campaign and Democratic donors do not appear to be willing to spend much time and money trying to win Georgia in next year’s presidential race, even though Joe Biden won the state in 2020 and both senators are now Democrats,” Conservative Brief reported on Sunday, citing The New York Times.

Cliff Albright, executive director of the Black Voters Matter Fund, told the publication his impression from “Democratic donors and party leaders” is that Georgia is “not, like, first tier,” adding that “some early indications are that it’s not going to get top-level prioritization.”

The left-leaning organization he co-founded “spent more than $1 million to oppose former Republican Senators Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue in 2020, and nearly $400,000 to elect Democratic Senators Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff,” the Tennessee Star reported, citing the Times as well.

Steve Phillips, a Democratic donor and founder of Democracy in Color, who supported Stacey Abrams early on in her twice-failed runs for Georgia governor and continues to be a supporter, echoed Albright’s observations.

“For some inexplicable reason, a lot of people are leaving Georgia out of the top tier of states to focus on next year,” Phillips told the NYTHe added that “top donors” and “different advisors to billionaires” are telling him they “have a top tier list of five states, and Georgia is not in it.”

The Times added:

The national money that once flowed freely from Democratic groups to help win pivotal Senate contests in Georgia has been slow in coming. Leading organizers, just over a month from the anticipated start of their initiatives to mobilize voters for the presidential election, say they are confronting a deep sense of apathy among key constituencies that will take even more resources to contend with.

Trump narrowly lost Georgia in 2020, though GOP Gov. Brian Kemp handily defeated Abrams by more than 8 points in 2022.


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