Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris' barnstorming tour of rural Georgia showed not only her plan to win the election, but also how she would govern as president.
While Donald Trump has long made clear that his only priority is "his" voters, Harris' bus tour of Southeast Georgia with running mate Tim Walz showed that she knows the president is supposed to represent every American.
Over two days, Harris and Walz met with voters, students and business owners before Harris held a solo rally in Savannah on Thursday. The campaign says this was the first time a general election presidential nominee stumped in the coastal city of Savannah since the 1990s.
Bill Clinton and Al Gore also prioritized rural parts of the state on a similar bus tour during their successful 1992 campaign (the last time Democrats picked up Georgia in a presidential election before President Joe Biden and Harris narrowly flipped the state back in 2020). But the investment in the Harris-Walz campaign's playbook to defend toss-up Georgia goes beyond the bus.
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