'The South is in play': Longtime red states emerge as potential battleground for Dems

On the last day of early voting in Georgia, former Vice President Kamala Harris addressed a room of Fulton County Democrats at a fundraising dinner in Atlanta.
Harris cited Democrats' gains in the Peach State as a "blueprint" that is now "spreading across the South."
Less than a week later, Democrats would go on to sweep every statewide office in Georgia and Texas, flip Republican-held Senate seats in the Carolinas and, as it stands, a Democrat is leading a Republican incumbent in the vote count in the Mississippi Senate race -- all states that Donald Trump won in 2024, some by double-digits.
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