Harris’ Georgia challenge: reassembling Biden’s diverse 2020 coalition

Decatur, Georgia CNN  —  Step into the Rebel Teahouse and look to the right: a stack of Kamala Harris campaign brochures on the shelf gives away a big change here. Owner Christine Nguyen has a candidate now and is not only excited to cast her vote but is also doing a little extra to help the vice president, including making a place for the brochures and plans to hold a voter registration event at the teahouse just before the Georgia deadline. “I’m proud to say there is somebody who is able to, like, voice the things that we as a people have been shouting for, like, the past four years,” Nguyen said in a recent interview. That’s a big shift from when we first met Nguyen back in April, when she told us she did not vote in 2020 because she felt no connection to either Joe Biden or Donald Trump. At the time, she said she was undecided about this year’s election and dreading the prospect of a Biden-Trump rematch. Then came Biden’s late July decision to step aside and Harris’ quick emergence as the replacement Democratic nominee – which Nguyen and her partner greeted with disbelief and then...