Democrats Launch Final Push For Georgia With Obama Campaign Visit

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Former president Barack Obama campaigns for Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams in 2018.

Credit: Stephen Fowler | GPB News

Former President Barack Obama is campaigning in Georgia Monday as part of a final push for Democrats seeking to win the state's 16 electoral votes for the first time since 1992.

Although details of the event have not been announced, Obama's visit will seek to mobilize voters for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and U.S. Senate candidates Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock.

The former president's stop will cap a flurry of last-minute high-profile stops in the Peach State, including a closing message from Biden delivered in rural Warm Springs, two events with vice presidential nominee Kamala Harris both last week and Sunday and a rally in northwest Georgia by President Trump slated for Sunday night.

A record 3.88 million Georgians have already cast their ballots in the election — half the state's registered voter totals and expected to be two-thirds of the total turnout for the race. While early voting data suggests Democrats have an advantage, there are large pockets of Republican strongholds across the state that skew towards Election Day voting, something Trump is counting on in a state that polls show him slightly behind.

For the Democrats, these campaign stops will likely focus on boosting turnout in some metro Atlanta counties that lagged during early voting to hold off the Election Day gains Republicans are set to make.

Most recently, Obama campaigned for gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams in 2018 as part of an effort that saw her come within about 50,000 votes of flipping the state.

Georgia has shifted demographically and politically since the 2016 election that Trump won by five points, and the presence of both U.S. Senate seats on the ballot positions Georgia as a state neither party can ignore.