Tanya Miller (D) and Brian Strickland (R) are running in the general election for attorney general of Georgia on Nov. 3. Incumbent Chris Carr (R) ran for governor of Georgia.
Political commentators have characterized Georgia's recent presidential and U.S. Senate elections as battlegrounds. In 2020, former President Joe Biden (D) won the state with 49.5% of the vote to President Donald Trump's (R) 49.3%. In 2021, Raphael Warnock (D) defeated incumbent Kelly Loeffler (R) 51.0%-49.0% in Georgia's special U.S. Senate runoff election. Jon Ossoff (D) defeated incumbent David Perdue (R) 50.6%-49.4% in Georgia's regular U.S. Senate runoff election. In 2024, Trump won the state with 50.7% of the vote to former Vice President Kamala Harris' 48.5%.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Greg Bluestein writes, "The suburban realignment and rise of split-ticket voters that made the state competitive are still in play. ... Trump reclaimed the state in 2024 by just 2 percentage points. Democrats could capture the governor’s office and other statewide posts they haven’t controlled in decades, and have an outside shot of flipping the Georgia House." Thurbert Baker (D) was Georgia's last Democratic attorney general, serving from 1997 to 2011. Georgia has had a Republican triplex since 2011.
