Vice President Harris pleaded with Georgia voters Thursday for a repeat of 2020, when President Biden carried the Peach State and two Democratic senators were elected.
“Georgia, for the past two election cycles, voters in this very state … have delivered,” Harris said at a rally in Savannah.
“You showed up, you knocked on doors, you registered folks to vote and you made it happen. You did that. You did that. And so now, we are asking you to do it again. Do it again. Let’s do it again,” she added.
Biden won Georgia over then-President Trump by fewer than 12,000 votes in 2020, becoming the first Democrat to win the state since 1992. The Trump campaign is eyeing the state as a pickup opportunity, and the former president and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) appear to be patching things up as part of an effort to help achieve that goal in November.
Harris has spent the past two days campaigning on a bus tour in Georgia with her running mate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D). Recent polling from Emerson College Polling and The Hill found Harris leading Trump by 1 percentage point in the pivotal swing state.
“So, Savannah, are you ready to make your voices heard?” Harris asked the crowd Thursday.
Biden’s narrow win in Georgia in 2020 led to Trump spending the weeks after Election Day pressuring Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R) to challenge the results.
A Decision Desk HQ/The Hill average of polls from Georgia shows Trump leading Harris by a narrow 0.1 percentage points in the state.
Harris spent much of Thursday’s rally making the case against Trump, hitting him over Project 2025 — the conservative blueprint for a GOP presidency that the former president has sought to distance himself from — and over the Supreme Court’s recent immunity decision.
“So much is on the line. And understand: This is not 2016 or 2020. Things are different,” Harris said.
“The stakes in 2024 are even higher, because consider that the United States Supreme Court basically told the president that going forward, he will be effectively immune no matter what he does in the White House,” she added.
The Supreme Court in July carved out broad criminal immunity for former presidents, which handed Trump a major legal victory as he fights his criminal indictments.
“Just imagine — before, there was at least the threat of consequence. Understand what it now means, and imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails,” Harris said.