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George Chidi in Atlanta, Georgia

‘I’ve lost friends’: in bitterly divided Georgia, can Democrats score another win?

side by side images of a woman with a trump sign and a woman with a harris t-shirt
The Trump and Harris campaigns are focusing on Georgia in the last-minute election push. Composite: Reuters

Mary Holewinski lives in Carrollton, Georgia, home turf for the Republican congressman Drew Ferguson. But Holewinski is a Kamala Harris supporter and has a sign in her yard. It draws some nasty looks, she said. “I’ve lost neighbor friends.”

It helps that Carrollton is a college town, and discussing politics is possible – to an extent. “I feel like the people I live around, you can sit down and have a conversation with them, and they are willing to listen … but not everybody. There are some people who don’t want to hear your side of it.”

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