Former President Bill Clinton is urging voters in rural Georgia to get behind the upbeat campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris for the office he once held
Former President Bill Clinton urged churchgoers in Albany, Georgia, on Sunday to rally behind the upbeat campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris for the office he once held.
“Uniting people and building, being repairers of the breach, as Isaiah says, those are the things that work», Clinton said. «Blaming, dividing, demeaning — they get you a bunch of votes at election time, but they don’t work.”
While Mt. Zion Baptist Church was not quite full, a hefty crowd welcomed Clinton with a standing ovation. Many attendees were older, but some younger people were dispersed throughout the pews.
“I think it was a great advancement for southwest Georgia to have the former president come to grace us today during the church service and spread the word about voting, especially to our young people,” said Takisha Campbell.
Georgia is one of seven states seen as pivotal in this year’s presidential race, and turnout among Black voters could hold the key for Democrats to winning the state’s 16 electoral votes. Harris and former President Donald Trump are neck-to-neck in state polls, and President Joe Biden won Georgia in 2020 by just 11,779 votes out of more than 5 million cast. That was the first time a Democratic president won the state since Clinton’s victory in 1992. Four years later, Clinton lost the state to Sen.
