Lauren Patrick

Editor & Founder of Pretty Southern; #journalism alumni @redandblack @UGAGrady @universityofga #GoDawgs #LoveTheSouth #ATL #Atlanta 🍑 thoughts are my own

[Lauren Patrick @Pretty_Southern]

@bluestein @jmart Absolutely no issue looking more like Colorado or Virginia 💚

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

Just in: Rick Jackson has called Keisha Lance Bottoms to concede defeat, per campaign officials. #gapol

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

Breaking: Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms won Georgia’s race for governor Tuesday, overcoming unprecedented spending by Republican billionaire Rick Jackson to become the first Black woman in U.S. history elected to lead a state government. @ajc https://t.co/4AD0jSa6Tq

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

This is worrying news. But anxiety is not a strategy.

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[Lauren Patrick @Pretty_Southern]

@AuforGA As if we needed more proof he doesn’t give a sh*t

[Dr. Michelle Au @AuforGA]

I see Trump finally revealed his healthcare plan today.

[Lauren Patrick @Pretty_Southern]

@AuforGA @WendyforUS I always wondered why that was 🧐

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: Will you pledge to serve your full six year term if you win?

OSSOFF: Yes, I will. I have zero interest in running for president. I'm running for Senate.*immediately resumes savaging Mike Collins*

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms is halfway through the @atlpressclub debate, where she’s appearing solo after Republican rival Rick Jackson declined to participate. #gapol

[Qondi @QondiNtini]

Listen to this SUPERMAN looking mfer and VOTE EARLY

Cornbread fed Fitz Jr says go to https://t.co/lI8LMD31bM 🗳️

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

National Democrats are putting serious money behind Keisha Lance Bottoms’ bid for governor, even as she faces a massive financial disadvantage against billionaire Republican Rick Jackson. #gapol

[Dr. Michelle Au @AuforGA]

GEORGIA: Did you know that during early voting you can vote at ANY polling place in your home county?

#TeamAu has made this map of all the early voting locations in Fulton County!

🗺️ https://t.co/j1owBDvJXG

Find the polling place most convenient for you, and bring a friend!

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

The city of Atlanta has quietly joined a lawsuit seeking to fight the Trump administration’s efforts to withhold funding from municipalities because of their diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

[Lauren Patrick @Pretty_Southern]

@bluestein Georgia continues to be purple like a bruise

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

Republican Clay Fuller wins the special election runoff to fill Marjorie Taylor Greene’s unexpired term, defeating Democrat Shawn Harris and keeping the deep-red northwest Georgia district in GOP hands. #gapol

[Lauren Patrick @Pretty_Southern]

Welp. I did my part out in Floyd County 💙 🍑 🇺🇸

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

Deep-blue Cobb precincts, along with left-leaning voters in Rome area, help Harris cut Fuller’s lead. #gapol

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This statement changes nothing.

The President has threatened a genocide against the Iranian people, and is continuing to leverage that threat.

He has launched a massive war of enormous risk and of catastrophic consequence without reason, rationale, nor Congressional authorization - which is as clear a violation of the Constitution as any. Each day this goes on, the risk and criminality of these actions escalate for our nation and the world.

Moreover, this administration’s self enrichment, insider trading, and pure corruption off this chaos - from crypto currencies to predictive trading markets to bribe “settlements” - has placed the Trump administration’s pursuit of personal wealth squarely against the wellbeing of our nation and its people.

All of these incidents, and plenty more, have clearly driven our country past the threshold for impeachment or invocation of the 25th amendment.

We cannot risk the world nor the wellbeing of our nation any longer. None of these considerations should be partisan, but shared in good faith by Americans of all backgrounds who care for the safety and stability of the United States.

Whether by his Cabinet or Congress, the President must be removed from office. We are playing with the brink.

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

Georgia’s 14th:
There are plenty of reasons Democrat Shawn Harris shouldn’t win tonight’s runoff.

He’s running in the Trumpiest district in Georgia, a conservative pocket where voters repeatedly sent Marjorie Taylor Greene to Congress back when she was one of the president’s most loyal allies.

But Democrats are making the case that if any Democrat can pull it off, it’s someone like Harris.

He’s a rural cattle farmer and former military commander who is fluent in MAGA themes. He's well known in the district after challenging Greene in '24.

He has worked to connect with conservative-leaning voters by criticizing tariffs, opposing the Iran war and pushing back on some of Trump’s policies without making the race solely about him. And he’s quick to say there are areas where he agrees with the president — and others where he breaks with his own party.

Harris’ GOP opponent, Clay Fuller, brings strengths of his own: Trump’s endorsement, a résumé as both a military veteran and former prosecutor, and the cold, hard math of a district where Republican candidates combined to win roughly 60% of the vote in the all-party first round in March.

Harris must run up the margins in the bluest corner of the district — a slice of Cobb County precincts — while hoping that supporters of Republican Colton Moore, who notably declined to endorse Fuller after finishing third, stay home.

Just as importantly, Harris has to peel off a meaningful share of Trump voters who are disillusioned with the president in a district Trump carried with roughly two-thirds of the vote in 2024.

“It’s not just walking a tightrope. He has to hope for more than that,” said University of Georgia political scientist Charles Bullock. “He’s got to walk the tightest tightrope and then hope for a disaster to win this.”

Stay tuned.

https://t.co/QhEVQwQVSQ

[Lauren Patrick @Pretty_Southern]

Happy Game Day! It’s Good Clean Ole Fashioned Hate in Georgia today for #UGAvsTech!

See y’all at the Benz! #GoDawgs #HouseDivided

[Lauren Patrick @Pretty_Southern]

@AttorneyGriggs @BrianKempGA @ossoff Thank you for speaking up @AttorneyGriggs! @ossoff is fighting for our neighbors and fellow Americans so they can have affordable healthcare. That’s true courage.

Unlike @BrianKempGA who won’t release emergency funds like other Governors to make sure Georgian’s don’t go hungry.