First lady Michelle Obama traveled to Georgia Monday to stump for Democratic Senate candidate Michelle Nunn, a sign the White House will be pushing hard in that race.
Obama spoke to a crowd of several hundred largely African-American supporters at Atlanta’s Martin Luther King Jr. Recreation Center. She urged them to be “more passionate and more hungry” in the 2014 midterm election races than in 2008 and 2012 presidential races, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Nunn, daughter of former Democratic Sen. Sam Nunn, is looking to win the seat being vacated by retiring Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss. She is up against GOP candidate David Perdue.
Republicans currently dominate the Georgia legislature.
A RealClearPolitics average of polls has Nunn and Perdue virtually tied, calling the race a “toss up.”
