Georgians shrug at voter suppression as Republican voters keep a low profile

Democrat Stacey Abrams and her opponent Brian Kemp seem to be proxies for racial and social divisions of the age of Trump

Gerald Devereaux, 74, stood outside an early polling station in firmly Republican Forsyth county after casting his ballot early in Georgia, one of America’s battleground states in next week’s midterm elections.

“I voted anti-Trump,” he said. “I like Republican policies better than the Democrat policies, but not if you got jerks leading it,” the registered Independent clarified, though he was unable to name a single policy he especially liked from Republicans.

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