We’re asking folks to contribute to Joyce Griggs for Congress, both to help upset a Trump ally and QAnon apologist, and because she’s leading the fight on the ground to flip Georgia blue.
When you think of the constituencies that Donald Trump has systematically been expelling and alienating from the Republican Party, you get Joyce Griggs. Let’s try it out. Here are the major groups for whom Trump has made the Republican party exceedingly toxic or otherwise insulted:
- Black and other minority groups
- Suburban voters, particularly women
- Veterans
- Seniors
- The Intelligence community
- Folks with graduate degrees.
Joyce Griggs is a black woman, a senior, with a JD in law, who spent 33 years serving in the Army as an Intelligence Officer, rising to the rank of Lt. Colonel. She lives in a suburb of Savannah, Georgia. And she’s activating voters in every one of these groups.
This, in a nutshell, is why Joyce Griggs is perfectly positioned to help Joe Biden close the gap in Georgia, defeat Donald Trump, and deliver a major psychological blow to the racist, authoritarian movement he harnessed and accelerated. If that’s enough for you, please donate what you can now.
The major forces moving Georgia so rapidly to the center are rising numbers of young and minority voters registering to vote and showing up, and suburban sprawl, chiefly around Atlanta. Indeed, the Atlanta area has driven the lion’s share of Georgia’s shift, as evidenced by this county-by-county vote comparison of the 2006 and 2018 elections for Governor in Georgia:
But that strategy of increasing urban turnout and winning suburban swing voters has been furiously resisted by rural Georgia’s red shift. If you’re reading this, it probably isn’t news to you that since 2016, rural areas have shifted red while urban areas shifted blue. But what you haven’t heard is how we can win them back.
What makes Joyce Griggs for Congress such a valuable asset to the national effort to flip Georgia blue is that she is running as a hyper-local candidate, exciting voters on the ground, and winning over various disaffected Trump voters all at the same time.
Think about it like this. What has more credibility to you — outreach by a national campaign that seeks your vote to win an election, or a local figure explaining how progressive policies can benefit your hometown, your business, and your family?
That’s what a congressional campaign like ours can do for the progressive movement. It’s the voice of the full Democratic ticket on the ground, and it speaks with a unique authority that the presidential or statewide campaigns cannot bring forth. In our case, we’re making sure to celebrate and include Jon Ossoff and Reverend Warnock (a Savannah native) in our messaging, and we always speak of the role the House could play in a Biden/Harris Administration.
Lt. Col. Joyce Griggs will keep winning over veterans, seniors, and suburbanites across her district, while exciting and inspiring Black voters in Savannah. She’ll help accelerate Democratic gains in urban Savannah and keep Republicans on the defensive across the rural coast. Dollars donated to our campaign will have an exponential effect in flipping Georgia and ending the Trump nightmare on Election Night.
Help us fight everywhere and win blue votes all across Georgia — donate now to Joyce Griggs for Congress.