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☆ In 50-50 Georgia, unhappiness with the choices but urgency about voting
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-24 | by ( John King | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +12 min

Yet she couldn’t bring herself to vote for Biden and didn’t vote that year. In the 2000 election, Democrat Al Gore received 70% in DeKalb; in 2020, Biden won 83%. Massachusetts native Kim Cavaliere, who moved to Georgia over 20 years ago, is pictured at her home in Dacula, Georgia. She’s still inclined to vote third-party again but is perhaps open to reconsidering if Georgia could settle a close race. It is rural, and reliably red – Trump won 71% of the county vote in 2020.

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Rome, Georgia CNN —President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump will hold dueling events Saturday in Georgia as their rematch for the White House moves from an inevitable likelihood to an inescapable reality. “Georgia has been ground zero on the national political landscape since 2018,” said Fred Hicks, a Democratic strategist based in Georgia. Trump’s Georgia headwindsBut there are headwinds for Trump in Georgia as well – many of his own making. Many in the party blamed Trump’s election denialism and criticism of mail-in ballots for lower party turnout in those runoff contests. Another Georgia Republican, Rep. Mike Collins, is scheduled to be there as well.

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☆ She got a gun to keep her children safe. This is what happened next
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-20 | by ( Thomas Lake | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

LaGrange, Georgia CNN —My little Spider-Man, his mother called him. He was holding on out there, in the open space, until his mother pulled her little Spider-Man back onto the balcony. Read other profiles of children who have died from gunfireThe next few minutes are jumbled in her memory. Most accidental shooting deaths among children involve guns left loaded and unlocked, study findsIn a recent interview, as she struggled with her emotions, Williams said she wished she hadn’t gotten the gun. His mother looked at her little Spider-Man, and wished she could take his place.

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☆ Jimmy Carter's hometown honors the ex-president as a global humanitarian -- and a good friend -- as he turns 99
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-30 | by ( Christina Maxouris | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Plains, Georgia CNN —More than 14,000 people have written to Jimmy Carter for his 99th birthday. Birthday wishes for Jimmy Carter are seen Thursday in a book at The Carter Center in Atlanta. “I talk to people every day of the week and listen to their stories about Jimmy Carter and how they interacted,” he said. Jimmy Carter's grandson Jason Carter, center, looks Thursday at a digital mosaic of his grandfather at The Carter Center. “It was like that message from President Carter was to encourage my heart,” Hightower said.

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☆ Tosca Musk, Elon’s sister, has a business venture of her own – and it’s all about romance and female sexuality
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Faith Karimi Cnn Photographs Austin Steele | Faith Karimi | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +15 min

It’s their first public film premiere since the pandemic started. Musk, 48, is the force behind Passionflix, which adapts romance novels into movies and streams them to a devoted niche audience. “Passionflix focuses on adapting romance novels exactly as the fan and the author envision it,” Musk says in a separate CNN interview. From left to right: Tosca Musk, Kimbal Musk, mother Maye Musk and Elon Musk at Maye's 50th birthday party in 1998. One of the founding members, she says she spent the pandemic years curled up on her couch, watching Passionflix movies.

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