President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump are set to resume hostilities with the first presidential debate in Atlanta, Georgia. They are battling low expectations, legal records, and lingering doubts about their records and character, as well as battling each other. The Washington Examiner is taking a closer look at the event, which could transform the entire 2024 contest. Part 4 will look at Trump’s return to Fulton County.

ATLANTA — One month after a New York jury found Donald Trump guilty in his hush money trial, the former president is returning to Fulton County, not to face his election interference charges in Georgia but to debate President Joe Biden.

But with Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis‘s racketeering charges hanging over Trump’s head, this make-or-break debate as he seeks reelection will be broadcast from CNN’s studios, blocks away from the Fulton County Courthouse, where the trial over allegations he and 18 other co-defendants conspired to overturn the results of Georgia’s 2020 presidential election is taking place.

Trump was charged alongside his co-defendants in August 2023 but hasn’t had to appear in court for the case since. But for one-time Georgia Republican state Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, speaking with the Washington Examiner, “It feels like he’s never left.”