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Besides the election of the first African-American members to the General Assembly since 1910 as well as the election of Carl Sanders as the first urban Democrat to the governorship since 1917, Tuttle's destruction of the county unit system also led to an immediate increase in the number of Republican members in the General Assembly, the ...
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Six counties or county equivalents have voted Republican for president in every election since they came into existence: Doniphan County, Kansas (since 1864), Leslie County, Kentucky (since 1880), Colonial Heights, Virginia (since 1952), Poquoson, Virginia (since 1976), Chugach Census Area, Alaska (since 2020) and Copper River Census Area, Alaska (since 2020).
Georgia's Republican lieutenant governor has unveiled a plan to roll back regulations in a similar style to what Tesla CEO Elon Musk is doing at the federal level in Washington, D.C.
The deep mistrust between conservatives and Republican election officials in Georgia is hampering efforts to slow the tide of election misinformation swirling in this pivotal battleground.
Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a top Trump ally in the House and one of the best known members of Congress, keeps the door wide open to possible runs for Senate or governor in 2026.
Also in 2022, Republicans however did win every statewide office in Georgia by margins of 5-10%, and incumbent Republican governor Brian Kemp won reelection by a raw margin of over 300,000 votes at 7.5% over Democrat Stacey Abrams. In 2024, Donald Trump flipped Georgia back into the Republican column winning it by 2.2%.
In presidential races, Georgia has given its electoral college votes to the Republican candidate all but five times since 1964: in 1968, segregationist George Wallace won a plurality of Georgia's votes on the American Independent Party ticket; former Georgia Governor Jimmy Carter won his home state by landslide margins in 1976 and 1980 ...