Republican Georgia operative Brian Robinson tells Politico Playbook he gets the strategy his fellow right wingers don’t in Vice President Kamala Harris and running mate Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s bus tour of rural southern Georgia on Wednesday: “We see them putting resources in Forsyth County, a heavily Republican county. Republicans are sort of confused: ‘Why are they wasting this money?’ And I’m like, they’re not trying to win Forsyth County. They’re trying to cut the margins.”
Robinson doubts the push will work, but doesn’t actually say why. He continued telling Playbook the value he sees, saying “It’s not just about the voters in South Georgia they touch. It’s about the visual that goes to the rest of America of her being in the community, of her wanting to connect with rural America. I think there’s a symbolic push that goes well beyond the hands she shakes.”
Not for nothing but maybe Robinson’s first instinct, the mathematical one, is closer to the truth than the “symbolic” one. That this is the kind of thing a campaign feeling comfortable about its level of support in its natural base areas would do to pad the margins. That if Harris was trying to just squeak out Georgia would be going on a bus tour of Black churches in Metro Atlanta.