Georgia GOP chair shares 2-pronged election strategy as Trump works to win back Peach State

ATLANTA – Georgia GOP Chairman Josh McKoon is "cautiously optimistic" that Republicans tin triumph backmost the Peach State aft it emerged arsenic a captious battleground successful the erstwhile statesmanlike race.

The way to triumph lies successful 2 cardinal blocs – aboriginal voters, and those who thin Republican but are mostly apathetic to the process wide – McKoon indicated successful an interrogation with Fox News Digital.

"We consciousness bully astir things present successful Georgia," the erstwhile authorities legislator said. "We’ve got a batch of enactment to bash implicit the adjacent period oregon so, but we consciousness similar we're successful presumption to win."

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GOP Chairman Josh McKoon, right, spoke with Fox News Digital astir the Trump campaign's efforts successful Georgia. (Getty Images)

He pointed to immoderate caller surveys that amusement erstwhile President Trump with a flimsy borderline implicit Vice President Kamala Harris, arsenic good arsenic aboriginal figures connected absentee voting.

Early and absentee voters were cardinal to President Biden’s triumph nationwide successful 2020, erstwhile the COVID-19 pandemic mostly forced Americans to enactment home. 

In Georgia, parts of which were ravaged by Hurricane Helene conscionable implicit a week ago, aboriginal and absentee voters whitethorn beryllium conscionable arsenic captious this year. Biden bushed Trump successful the Peach State by astir 12,000 votes successful 2020.

"One precise important acquisition is the value of aboriginal voting. We person 3 weeks of in-person aboriginal voting present successful Georgia. Republicans traditionally person not done a full batch to people our voters to get them retired aboriginal – to marque a program and spell up and slope those votes," McKoon said.

"As a result, we had to walk an tremendous magnitude of clip and resources trying to determination the immense bulk of our voters to the polls connected Election Day."

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President Biden won Georgia by little than 1% successful 2020. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Motivating galore of those apt voters to crook retired early, McKoon explained, frees up authorities enactment resources "to absorption connected low-propensity voters who are apt to ballot for President Trump, if we conscionable get them to the polls."

"But of course, those voters request to beryllium touched aggregate times. And so, aboriginal voting plays a immense relation successful our wide strategy," McKoon said.

When asked however low-propensity voters could beryllium reached, the Republican authoritative explained it’s much a substance of outreach than identification.

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"Of course, each of that requires resources. That requires wealth – enactment message successful the mailbox, ads connected television, telephone calls to their home, knocking connected their door. We’re trying to bash each of those things," McKoon said.

Another origin of the Trump campaign’s nationwide outreach – and successful Georgia, successful peculiar – is convincing Black antheral voters to ballot Republican.

Trump allies person said that securing astir 20% of enactment from Black men crossed the U.S. could beryllium captious to swaying the election successful his favor.

McKoon said aboriginal voting volition beryllium cardinal to winning successful Georgia. (Kurt "CyberGuy" Knutsson)

A caller Howard University nationalist sentiment canvass recovered that astir 1 successful 5 Black men nether property 50 who are surviving successful battleground states enactment Trump.

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"You spot the enactment that's being done, you know, Black Voices for Trump, a batch of the different movements, grassroots movements, astir the state. Direct elector contact, again, is truly king successful this area. But nary one's amended astatine that than President Trump himself," McKoon said.

"That’s truly astir economical anxiousness and the feeling that this administration, with its unfastened borders policies, are making it adjacent much hard for Black voters to get up successful this country." 

Georgia’s aboriginal voting play runs from Oct. 15 done Nov. 1.