That’s the issue that we’ve got to fix,” Carter said at a Mediterranean restaurant in Sandy Springs, north of the Georgia capital, after a party meeting on Thursday night.
“Somebody needs to ring the bell that the house is on fire, and nobody’s ringing that bell.”
With less than six months to go before the November general election, Biden is racing to shore up and reboot the centre-left political base that helped him unseat Trump in 2020.
It is especially urgent in Georgia, which was crucial to Democrats at the last election when Biden won the state’s 16 electoral college votes by a tiny margin. Voters then returned two senators to Washington, giving the party control of the upper chamber.
Georgia was also at the centre of Trump’s efforts to reverse that election result, as he implored the state’s senior election official in a phone call to “find” him 11,780 votes to overturn his losing tally. Trump and several allies were indicted last year in relation to those efforts, although the date for his trial is not yet set.
