Some 2.8 million early ballots were cast in Georgia, and that’s a midterm election record.
Democrats are encouraged because almost a third of the early ballots were cast by Black voters, several percentage points more than in previous elections. Latino turnout, a small slice of Georgia’s electorate, also is higher. The early electorate is also several points less white than in 2024, when Trump carried the state, and 2022, when Republican Gov. Brian Kemp was reelected.
Georgia’s metro areas, which lean Democratic, also have posted higher early turnout compared to the 2022 midterms, while most rural counties, which skew Republican, are down.
And analyses show the early vote uptick is not strictly from usual Election Day voters shifting to early ballots.
It’s enough that Kemp has cut social media videos urging Republicans to vote Tuesday and reminding them that he first won in 2018 by less than 55,000 votes, or 1.4 percentage points.
