Vance, Kemp, Warnock on the presidential campaign trails in Georgia

(GEORGIA NEWS NETWORK/97.5 GLORY FM) – The presidential campaign is down to the wire and tight in Georgia, according to some polls. And the weekend has seen no break in high-profile individuals campaigning for Georgia votes for former president Donald Trump

Trump’s running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance, pitching to Georgia Saturday at an Atlanta rally, vowing to turn the state red.

Gov. Rian Kemp, meanwhile, was stumping for Trump in Cumming, downplaying Kamala Harris surrogates such as actress Julia Roberts (a Georgia native) by saying they don’t live here. Some of Trump’s surrogates also don’t live here, such as Dr. Ben Carson, who appeared at a Trump rally in Duluth last week.

Despite Kemp’s troubled relationship with Trump in the past, the governor told. The governor told CBS Saturday he wants a Republican win at the top of the ticket and in all the down-ballot races.

And Sen. Raphael Warnock was touting Harris at homecoming for Spellman and Morehouse universities in Atlanta.

About the Author

Ken Stanford is Online News Editor for GLORY 97.5, a position he has held since August 2022.

Ken was born in Moultrie, Georgia, and says he knew from the time he was 5 or 6 he wanted to be a “radio announcer.” That dream was realized when he was hired by Moultrie radio station WMTM in 1960 at the age of 15 as a weekend disc jockey. A 1963 graduate of Moultrie (now Colquitt County) High School, he has spent his whole career in Georgia working for stations in Atlanta, Marietta, and Gainesville – most recently as News Director for 40 years at WDUN in Gainesville. He is a veteran of the U.S. Air Force Reserves.

Ken retired in 2011 but came out of retirement last year to help GLORY, on a part-time basis, beef-up its online news presence.

He is the recipient of many Associated Press awards and is a former judge of state and national Associated Press broadcast news contests. In 2005, he was presented with the Georgia Associated Press Broadcasters Association’s President’s Award for Excellence in Journalism and in 2019 was inducted into the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame.

He lives in Gainesville with his wife of 52 years, the former Sandra McKnight of Clio, Alabama, and they have one child, a daughter, Lisa, who lives in Cumming with her family.