Again and again, Atlanta has been the backdrop for some of this decade’s most pivotal moments in American politics — an upset 2020 victory for President Joe Biden in Georgia, an effort by then-President Donald Trump to overturn that result and his indictment here on multiple criminal charges.
Thursday night’s presidential debate, the first of the 2024 election, may be another.
While Biden’s Georgia surrogates urged voters to focus on substance over style, privately some Georgia Democrats fear that Biden’s halting delivery will only affirm what some voters were already feeling: that the president is too old to serve a second term.
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