As the public has become aware of the spiralling costs associated with building a new Foxconn plant in the state, the deal has become something of a political liability for the governor.
Amid claims of voter-suppression efforts against Brian Kemp, the Republican contender for governor of Georgia, there is concern that traffic stops are being used to dissuade would-be voters, particularly minorities, from going to the polls.
Supporters of Proposition 3 include the disability-rights advocate Stacy Stanford and Karina Brown, a stay-at-home mom running for a seat in the Utah House of Representatives.
At this point, the state is reliably blue in statewide races, but change has been slower at the House-district level—and Abigail Spanberger, the Democratic candidate for the House in the Seventh District, seems to know it.
In Santiago Niltepec, a village of four thousand in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, residents were wrestling with competing impulses: to help the migrants or recoil from them.
The caravan’s arrival in Arriaga, a transit hub between the states of Chiapas and Oaxaca, marks the end of the first leg of the group’s journey through Mexico.
The candidate for governor of Georgia believes that her progressive ideas can garner support from voters who aren’t used to casting a ballot for a Democrat.