ATLANTA — President Joe Biden's honeymoon in Georgia is over, and that could have disastrous implications for Democrats scrambling to hang on to a U.S. Senate seat and win the governor's race for the first time in almost a quarter century.
The tenuous coalition of independent voters, former Republicans in the suburbs and Black Georgians who fueled Biden's flip of the state in 2020 is under duress as high inflation, legislative gridlock and frustration with his policies take a toll.
Couple that with backlash from liberals upset at the grinding pace of his legislative agenda — some voting rights groups were so upset they boycotted his visit to Atlanta this month — and the president's waning popularity poses a threat to state candidates.
