As film and TV jobs have migrated from Hollywood to production hubs all across the country, the industry’s reliably Democratic-voting union members could play a key role in the outcome of the presidential race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. With razor-thin margins in the battleground states of Georgia, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Arizona, the thousands of industry workers who live and vote there could make all the difference.
In Georgia, which has seen an unparalleled boom in film and television production and jobs over the past decade, Trump leads by only about 9,500 votes as of this writing. IATSE, which has endorsed Biden, has 5,079 members who live and work in Atlanta – five-times more than ten years ago, according to the jobs latest data reported to the Department of Labor.
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