CLEVELAND, Ga.— White County, in the north Georgia mountains, is one of the reddest counties in the state.
Donald Trump won there with 83% of the vote in 2020, so it’s just about the last place you’d expect to see a Democratic meeting draw a room full of potential voters at noon on a Tuesday. But that’s what happened last week when I went to Cleveland, Georgia, to meet June Krise, a semi-retired nurse and longtime Democrat who is running for the state House seat there.
Although she thought health care would be the top issue in her campaign, Krise said the Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade this summer has become the dominant focus of her efforts.
