Trump’s Geor­gia prob­lem: ‘Neck and neck’ with VP Har­ris as can­di­dates fight for bat­tle­ground states

<div>Trump's Georgia problem: 'Neck and neck' with VP Harris as candidates fight for battleground states</div>

For­mer Pres­i­dent Trump’s tight race with VP Har­ris is bring­ing Geor­gia – a his­tor­i­cal­ly red state-turned-blue – back to the fore­front this elec­tion cycle as the two can­di­dates are “neck and neck” in the Peach State’s polls. And Trump’s rhetoric could swing the state one way or anoth­er, accord­ing to experts. In the 2020 pres­i­den­tial elec­tion, it was assumed Geor­gia was reli­ably Repub­li­can, as it had been for more than four decades. How­ev­er, not only did Trump lose, but the state also saw two Sen­ate loss­es for Repub­li­cans, which decid­ed Sen­ate control.“They’re neck and neck in Geor­gia,” Tevi Troy, pres­i­den­tial his­to­ri­an and for­mer deputy sec­re­tary of Health and Human Ser­vices in the George W. Bush admi …