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    GOP worries Trump's moves could depress turnout in Georgia runoffs

    by Jenny Jarvie and Janet Hook, Los Angeles Times Jan 04, 2021 6 minutes

    DALTON, Ga. — Just days before Georgia's Senate runoff election, Kasey Carpenter strode into his bustling Southern home-style restaurant and got straight to the point.

    "Bobby," the restaurant owner hollered at a regular, "have you voted?"

    Bob Cummings, 64, nodded, and Carpenter let out a whoop at having scored a reliably Republican vote. The GOP state representative knows his party has no votes to spare in Georgia's Tuesday runoff races that will determine control of the U.S. Senate. Early election data reveal voters in the state's Democratic strongholds have shown up in force while turnout is lagging in this Trump-supporting swath of northwest Georgia.

    "We still got a good ways to go," said Carpenter as he prepared to host Sen. David Perdue, one of the two Republicans in the runoff, at another of his restaurants. "We're not anywhere near where we need to be."

    That's one of the reasons President Donald Trump will be holding a rally Monday in this blue-collar town of 33,000 that is a carpet and flooring manufacturing hub:

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