As Americans head to the polls, we sent photographers out to three key battleground states to spotlight voters, who spoke about their hopes and fears in the midterm elections. They met people voting out of concern for the economy, women’s rights and threats to democracy. They also found people driven by optimism for greater unity and hope that their vote would make a difference. Meet some of the voters who are deciding the fate of politics in their home states.
Georgia
One of the highest-profile key races of the election, which could decide which party controls the Senate, is in Georgia where the Democratic senator Raphael Warnock is up against the Republican former football star Herschel Walker, a Trump acolyte.
