WASHINGTON — Joe Biden's presidential election victory was propelled by suburban voters who live just outside of cities like Detroit, Philadelphia and Madison, Wisconsin.
If Democrats are to prevail in Georgia's two U.S. Senate runoff elections in January, they'll need to plow a similar path around Atlanta, where Republicans are counting on voters in this historically conservative-leaning area to come home to incumbent Sens. David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler after a crucial slice of them turned on President Donald Trump.
"Style matters. Suburban voters ... did not always agree with the style the president took," said Generra Peck, a senior adviser to N2 America, a Republican research firm that tracked suburban voter sentiment this cycle. "The idea of the Democrats renting the suburbs is real. It's not a permanent part of the Democratic coalition because they're not aligned on policy."
