Harris-Walz to campaign in south Ga. next week

(FROM SRN NEWS/REUTERS) – Kamala Harris and Tim Walz take their Democratic campaign for the White House on a bus tour through Georgia next week.

Their bus tour on Wednesday will be the first time the two have campaigned together through the state.

The Harris campaign said the tour will culminate in a rally with the vice president in the Savannah area, though the full itinerary was not immediately known. Walz will depart the state before the rally.

The announcement of the trip comes two days after Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump looked to defuse a feud with Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, after slamming him in an Atlanta rally earlier this month.

Kemp endorsed Trump on Thursday, and the former president thanked him in a social media post.

Polls show a close race between Harris and Trump, with Georgia among seven states likely to determine the outcome.

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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.