In purple Georgia, where independent voters make up nearly 30% of the electorate, Republicans are hoping to pull nonpartisan voters who support Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) into their fold to vote for Republican Rick Jackson in the state’s gubernatorial race.
The Peach State has a history of split-ticket voters, with 6.1% of voters splitting their tickets in the 2022 elections of Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA), according to a University of Georgia study. Democrats have increasingly turned purple what several years ago was a deep-red state, creating a landscape in which successful state Republicans, like Kemp, have targeted independent voters.
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