In Georgia, GOP seeks to persuade 2020 skeptics to vote
CBSN
On a crisp fall morning, eager volunteers fanned out in the leafy suburban Atlanta neighborhood to knock on doors, trying to persuade reluctant and skeptical conservatives to register to vote in next month's midterm elections.
It's painstaking work anywhere, but especially pivotal in battleground Georgia, as Donald Trump's false claims of a rigged 2020 election have created a new constituency of election deniers — some wary their votes won't be counted in November.
Dispatching the group on the hunt for votes was an unlikely emissary — former Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, who initially stood by the defeated president's effort to undo Joe Biden's victory, but was now working, in blue jeans and a country plaid shirt, to bring election skeptics back to the polls.
