Craig Nelson is a former international correspondent for The Associated Press, the Sydney (Australia) Morning-Herald, Cox Newspapers and The Wall Street Journal. He also served as foreign editor for The National (Abu Dhabi) and as the Journal’s Kabul bureau chief and London-based Africa and Middle East editor.
For observers, any campaign rally is an opportunity to gauge who’s up and who’s down, who’s in and who’s out. Case in point: Trump’s speech at the Johnny Mercer Theatre on Tuesday, which was prime viewing for Georgia GOP watchers in a state where the Republicans are experiencing a Cold War.
Students and faculty members at Georgia Southern University’s main campus held a sit-in rally on Monday to protest the termination of a program aimed at reducing discrimination against LGBTQIA+ people.
Local and state officials who were fed up with Orange Crush or never liked it in the first place couldn’t ban the annual rite of spring outright after last year’s traffic and management debacle. But