When Biden targeted the All-Star Game, he hit the wrong Georgia
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President Biden and Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred apparently never got the memo about the Two Georgias.
That’s about the only conclusion to be drawn from their reaction to the enactment of Georgia Senate Bill 202, a.k.a. “The Election Integrity Act of 2021.” When Biden publicly urged MLB to strip Atlanta of this year’s All-Star Game, he was basically calling in friendly fire on his own party’s home turf in perhaps the most politically important state in the nation right now.
More specifically, the president targeted Cobb County, home of the Atlanta Braves’ Truist Park, which had long been a GOP bastion before finally tipping Democratic in 2016 and then giving Biden a 56,000-vote margin in 2020. Kudos to the political wizards who helped him think that one through.
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