PBS News Hour

October 15, 2022 - PBS News Weekend full episode

October 15, 2022 - PBS News Weekend full episode

Will a divided Georgia stay blue on Election Day?

7m 47s

In 2020, the state of Georgia flipped blue for President Biden and secured Democrats' control of the U.S. Senate by electing Sen. Jon Ossoff and Sen. Raphael Warnock. But in one of the country's most divided states — where Biden beat Donald Trump by fewer than 12,000 votes — the question is whether Georgia will stay blue come November. Geoff Bennett reports.

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