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Rick Perry Speech Sells Out At Georgia GOP Convention, Gov. Deal Snubbed After Gun Veto

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Phillip Stucky Political Reporter
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The Georgia Republican Party (GAGOP) started its statewide convention Friday in Augusta in which it will pick the delegates to represent the state at the national convention.

Already, former Republican Gov. Rick Perry’s Friday evening speech has sold out, while Georgia’s Republican Gov. Nathan Deal is oddly missing from the speaking schedule. After his May 3 veto of the state campus carry gun bill, Deal is actually polling more favorably among Democrats than Republicans.

During the convention, the party will elect 31 at-large delegates to represent the state in the convention. These delegates were already apportioned during the primary, with Trump earning 48, Rubio earning 16, and Cruz earning 18. The two candidates to withdraw have yet to cede their delegates, which means those numbers will likely go to the national convention. During the primary, Georgia apportioned its delegates by voting district, where a candidate needed to do well in each district in order to get the three delegates for that district.

In the state of Georgia, 59 percent of likely voters support a hearing for Judge Merritt Garland, and 69 percent of likely voters support an increase in the minimum wage to 10 dollars an hour. The voting demographics of the state include 62 percent white, 39 percent black, with 9 and a half percent identifying as Latino. That information allowed respondents to identify as multiple ethnicities.

The support for 10 dollars an hour likely stems from the fact that 18 percent of the 10 million that live in Georgia live below the poverty line, and the average per capita income in the state is a little over 25,000 a year.

In an official guide from the state party website, delegates are required to pay 500 dollars for entry fees, and to help go to the cost of travel. Although it appears that number doesn’t go toward hotel costs.

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