ATLANTA — The city that gave Martin Luther
King Jr. his pulpit and the south its first black mayor may elect its
first white one in nearly half a century Tuesday.
The debate over whether that's a step backward
or forward has turned the contest into an ugly, racially tinged and
nationalized battle that has divided a city known for better relations
between its black and white communities.
President Donald Trump has even become a factor in this heavily Democratic, majority African-American city.
The candidates in Tuesday's runoff election
for the city's next mayor are both women, both city council members, and
both tout support for progressive policies. One is black, the other is
white.
Polls
show a neck-and-neck contest between Mary Norwood, a white Independent,
who is garnering about 80 percent of the white vote, and Keisha Lance
Bottoms, a black Democrat, who captures about three-quarters of the
black vote.
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Source: NBC News
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