Bipartisan: Kasey Carpenter
A Republican from Dalton navigates the political dynamics of district that votes 75% Trump and is 51% nonwhite.
Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been watching the Cop City debate wind its way through Atlanta’s halls of power with bipartisanship in the back of my mind. Consider that Atlanta votes for Democrats by at least a four to one margin. Donald Trump won exactly five of the city’s 174 voting districts in 2020.
And yet, a coalition of the city’s more conser…
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