‘The party tips its hat’: Democrats take debate to Atlanta hoping to woo black voters

Choice of Atlanta is testament to power of the black vote as Democrats hope to turn solidly Republican state blue in 2020.

At an open plan loft space in central Atlanta the sense of excitement among assembled Democrat voters was palpable, despite the grey sky outside.

As the city prepared to hold the fourth debate in the Democratic presidential primary, Stacey Abrams the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate who last year came within 50,000 votes of becoming the first female African American governor in the US, delivered a brief address: “We...