Voters in the swing state of Georgia turned out in record numbers on Tuesday as early voting for the began, as per state officials.
At least 252,000 voters had cast their ballots at the early voting sites as of 4 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (2000 GMT). That was nearly double the 136,000 opening-day participants in early in-person voting for the , said Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s No. 2 election official.
Sterling took to social media to and exclaimed: “Spectacular turnout.”
While some voting sites reported an hour-long wait in Atlanta’s core counties, others reported little or no wait time.
Georgia is one of the seven competitive battleground states likely to play a decisive role in the election result.
The turnout reflects the popularity of early voting — either in person or by mail — also seen in the 2020 elections. .
Harris in Detroit, Trump in Atlanta on campaign trail
As early voting began in Georgia, candidates from the and parties conducted media interviews as part of their .
Democratic presidential candidate sat down for a radio interview with host who goes by the name Charlamagne tha God on Tuesday, defending her record as a prosecutor, pledging to decriminalize marijuana and vowing to push for police reforms.
Charlamagne, a Black comedian and author who hosts the radio show ‘The Breakfast Club,’ is known for his blunt interviews of celebrities.
On Wednesday, she will be interviewed on conservative-leaning Fox News.
Meanwhile, Republican presidential candidate and former US President attended an all-women town hall event in Atlanta, Georgia, hosted by Fox News. There, he said he would work towards tax breaks for lower-income Americans.
“We’re going to readjust things so that it’s fair to everybody, because it’s really not fair to everybody,” he said.
Before that, he sat down for an interview with editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News John Micklethwait where he defended his protectionist trade policies, fiscal proposals and dismissed notions that it could increase the federal debt burden and harm the US economy.
mk/msh (AP, Reuters)
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