Barack Obama called into an Atlanta radio station to urge Georgia voters to elect Michelle Nunn to the U.S. Senate so that the president can “keep on doing some good work.”
“If Michelle Nunn wins, that means that Democrats keep control of the Senate, and that means that we can keep on doing some good work,” said Obama on V-103, an urban contemporary radio station. Listen to the audio below:
Nunn is in a tight race for Georgia’s open Senate seat against Republican David Perdue. The state leans Republican, and Nunn will need to motivate the Democratic party’s black base to turn out if she hopes to win on Election Day, or at least hold Perdue to a runoff. But Nunn also needs to win over white swing voters in Georgia by downplaying her connection to Obama, who is overall unpopular in the state.
The state Democratic party is also reportedly distributing a mailer to encourage black voters to vote. The flier features a photograph of young children protesting the fatal shooting of a young black man by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, and entreats those reading to vote to “prevent another Ferguson.”
