Battleground to watch: Georgia

ABC NEWS (Australia)

Georgia: The Peach State went to Biden in 2020 - will Kamala Harris keep it? Georgia is famous for peaches, peanuts and poultry and Joe Biden won the last presidential election by some 12,000 votes.

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00:00Welcome to the busiest airport in the world, Atlanta, Georgia.

00:21Every day, almost 300,000 passengers pass through here.

00:28The southern state's home to 11 million people, half a million live in the capital, Atlanta.

00:38It's also home to global institutions like CNN, UPS, and Coca-Cola.

00:43The weather, the food, the people, everything, it's amazing.

00:49I'm a musician, and there's a lot of diverse music coming out of here.

00:53Welcome everyone to our state.

00:55Absolutely, very friendly. We love everybody.

00:59Georgia is the peach state, but it also produces a whole bunch of other stuff, beginning with pea.

01:05Peanuts, pecans, and poultry, though here they call them broilers.

01:10The state also grows a lot of cotton. It's the nation's second biggest producer of the crop.

01:22It was here that the cotton gin was invented in 1793, a machine to separate the fibers from the seeds.

01:30The cotton gin transformed agriculture in the south and fueled the slave trade.

01:36Today, one-third of Georgians are African-American.

01:40In recent decades, Georgia backed the Republican presidential candidate, including Donald Trump, in 2016.

01:48But in 2020, Joe Biden won.

01:51Did you vote for Donald Trump in 2020?

01:53Yes, I did.

01:54The U.S. has more hope with Kamala.

01:58Cost of living is definitely a big concern. It's a huge concern.

02:01I've definitely seen the value of my dollar go down.

02:04Our housing, our gas prices, our food prices within the last, I would say, four years has been absolutely out of control.

02:13The divisiveness is what's most important to me, which I think is happening on both sides, left and right.

02:18Yeah, I don't know. It's kind of hard right now to be an American.

02:23Atlanta was the last U.S. city to host the Summer Olympic Games back in 1996.

02:30Los Angeles will be the next in 2028.

02:34But you won't have to wait that long for an exciting political race.

02:39Biden took Georgia by fewer than 12,000 votes four years ago.

02:44And polls indicate another close contest this year for the state's 16 electoral college votes.

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