Vice President Harris on Thursday appealed to Georgia voters to ensure a repeat of 2020, when President Biden won the Peach State and two Democratic senators were elected.
“In Georgia, over the last two elections, that's exactly what the voters of this state have delivered on,” Harris said at a rally in Savannah.
“You've been to the polls, you've gone door-to-door, you've registered voters, you've made it happen. You've done it. And now we're asking you to do it again. Let's do it again. Let's do it again,” she added.
Biden became the first Democrat to win Georgia since defeating former President Trump by fewer than 12,000 votes in 1992. The Trump campaign is eyeing the state as a springboard to gain support, and the former president and Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, a Republican, appear to be trying to reconcile to help achieve that goal in November.
Harris has been campaigning in Georgia for the past two days on a bus tour with her running mate, Gov. Tim Walz (D). Recent polls by Emerson College and The Hill show her leading Trump by one point in key battleground states.
“So, Savannah, are you ready to speak up?” Harris asked the crowd on Thursday.
Following Biden's narrow victory in Georgia in 2020, Trump pressured Kemp and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, in the weeks after Election Day to contest the election results.
A Decision Desk HQ/The Hill average of Georgia polls gives Trump a slim 0.1 percentage point lead over Harris in the state.
Harris spent much of Thursday's rally railing against Trump, criticizing him over Project 2025, a conservative blueprint for Republican presidential campaigns that the former president has sought to distance himself from, as well as the Supreme Court's immunity decision.
“There's so much at stake, and I want you to understand this is not 2016 or 2020. This is different,” Harris said.
“The stakes are even higher in 2024 given that the U.S. Supreme Court has essentially told the president that he will have effective immunity from liability for anything he does from the White House going forward,” she added.
The Supreme Court granted broad criminal immunity to former presidents in July, handing President Trump a major legal victory as he fights criminal prosecution.
“Imagine that. Before there was at least the threat of consequences. Now understand what that means now, imagine Donald Trump with no guardrails,” Harris said.
