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Politics
Greg Bluestein

After Labor Day, the big-money sprint to Election Day begins in Georgia

NEWNAN, Ga. — There’s so much political spending in Georgia this campaign season, some groups are literally giving money away.

At six events at gas stations and grocery stores across the state, the pro-Herschel Walker group 34N22 has gifted voters $50,000 worth of vouchers to highlight rising inflation in hopes of sinking Democratic U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock.

Georgia’s top candidates and their allies have already devoted nearly $300 million to ads this election cycle, a once-unthinkable sum that now reflects the state’s rise as a political battleground.

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