“And remember, everybody was operating kind of from a space of panic, right? What the heck just happened? And when you talk about the areas that flipped, they’re generally highly educated. We didn’t just flip because there were Democrats who weren’t voting. We flipped because there were people who were independents, mostly, that said, ‘I can’t vote for Republicans any more.’”

Lynn Deutsch · said date not stated · reported 2026-10-16

Deutsch explained that affluent northern suburbs of Atlanta flipped because educated independents refused to keep voting Republican.