Former Vice President Joe Biden is headed to the Peach State next Thursday to campaign for gubernatorial candidate and Democratic nominee Stacey Abrams.

Ms. Abrams is at the nucleus of her party this year. In the primary election, she won an overwhelming victory against opponent Stacey Evans, taking 75% of the vote. Abrams won all but six counties and did unexpectedly well in traditionally white, rural, Republican areas.

Though it is common for vice presidents to stump for their party’s gubernatorial candidate, Biden’s visit to Georgia may reflect his recent efforts to invest politically in areas where Republican strongholds are believed to be slipping. These areas include Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Georgia has increasingly been discussed as among these traditionally Republican states that might be ripe for Democratic takeover in 2020. In 2016, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took nearly 46% of Georgia’s popular vote. This rivaled Senator Obama’s 46.9% in 2008 and surpassed President Obama’s 46% in 2012.

In July, Vice President Mike Pence came to Macon, GA to stump for Brian Kemp, the Republican nominee and incumbent Georgia Secretary of State. Coupled with the endorsement of President Donald Trump, Kemp made the quantum leap ahead of Lt. Governor Casey Cagle he needed to win his party’s nomination.

The gubernatorial election will be held November 6 later this year.