MACON, Ga. — President Trump has focused his final week of campaigning before the midterm elections on helping the GOP in key Senate races, but on Sunday afternoon he made a detour to Georgia to help prevent what would be a massive upset for Democrats in the state’s contest for governor. Trump appeared with Republican Brian Kemp, who is locked in a dead heat with Democrat Stacey Abrams, a notable show of strength for the Democrats in a state long known for its conservative politics. Trump’s only other appearances with gubernatorial candidates this final week before Tuesday’s elections are with Republicans Mike DeWine in Ohio and Ron DeSantis in Florida, both states that are key to Republican success in presidential elections. But just as Ohio is a key Rust Belt state for Trump that helped him win in 2016, and Florida is a crucial swing state with a huge trove of Electoral College votes, Georgia is in many ways the linchpin of the South. If Abrams, an African-American woman, were to win, it would be the second major victory for Democrats in the Deep South in a year, following on the heels of Doug Jones’s victory a year ago, when he become the first Democrat elected to the U.S. Senate from Alabama in 26 years. An Abrams win would show the path to a coalition that can win in the South, patching together racial minorities and young voters in cities with college-educated whites and enough suburban women
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