Terry Mayberry, a fifty-six-year-old inventory stocker from Jefferson, Georgia, liked what she heard. She held a “Women for Trump” sign and wore a pin that said “Don’t confuse the news with the truth.” She told me, “I’ve never voted in a midterm. But then Trump came along and I got political. I didn’t realize the government is really as bad as it is.” She added, “I love Brian Kemp, because he believes what Trump believes. When Abrams starts talking about impeaching the President and about AR-15s being assault weapons—she doesn’t know enough to be out there governing.” At a campaign event earlier this year, Abrams said that “impeachment is absolutely a lever we need to look at”; the AR-15 was outlawed by the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which was instituted in 1994 but lapsed a decade later, and the gun has been used in numerous mass shootings. “These are no longer the Democrats of Kennedy,” Mayberry added. She described herself as a former Democrat and a “proud gay Trump supporter,” who lives in a “predominantly black neighborhood”—Mayberry is white—“where I’ve been talking to everyone I can about Trump and Kemp, because they’re taking care of all of us.” What had she been telling her neighbors lately? “We shouldn’t grant automatic citizenship to illegal babies born here.” (Trump recently said that he wanted to do away with birthright citizenship through an executive order, though the law probably could not be changed without an amendment to the Constitution.)

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Waiting nearby were the Lucia brothers, Brandon, seventeen, and Matthew, nineteen, from Gwinnett County, two hours to the north. Matthew had the day off from his job at a Publix supermarket, where he works in customer service. On Tuesday, he’ll vote for the first time, for Kemp. “The main reason is being against Stacey Abrams,” he said. “You see all this stuff about her, how she wants to open up our borders to illegals.” (Abrams has condemned the anti-immigrant rhetoric of the President but does not support open borders.) “Granted, there are illegals here that are here for good reason,” he added. “But sometimes they’re not.” Both he and his brother are the children of immigrants, he noted. “My family came from Switzerland, over in Europe, in the last fifty years. Our parents are divided on Trump,” he said.