Obama to rally for Ossoff and Bottoms as Georgia voting surges – CBS News

Obama to rally for Ossoff and Bottoms as Georgia voting surges  CBS News

Former President Barack Obama is heading to Atlanta to campaign for Sen. Jon Ossoff and Keisha Lance Bottoms as early voting nears its end.

CBS News Atlanta’s Jamal Goss examines whether high-profile visits can influence voters focused on affordability.

Obama’s scheduled Atlanta appearance is a campaign event involving both Ossoff and Bottoms, taking place as the early-voting period approaches its conclusion. The planned stop links the former president’s visit to the candidates’ efforts in Atlanta. It is presented as an opportunity for Obama to campaign on behalf of the two candidates during a late stage of early voting. The scheduled appearance comes before early voting ends.

The CBS News Atlanta report examines the possible effect of prominent political visits rather than asserting that such appearances determine voter behavior. Its focus is on whether a high-profile campaign stop can matter to people whose concerns center on affordability. The report identifies affordability as the issue through which it assesses the potential influence of the Atlanta visit, Ossoff’s campaign and Bottoms’s campaign.