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Davante Jennings poses for a photo at the state Capitol on March 28 in Atlanta. Not long ago, Mr. Jennings was not even an active voter. He had given up on polictics after the 2016 presidential election — his first time voting. But he was targeted by the New Georgia Project ahead of the 2022 elections and now helps reach out to would be voters.

Davante Jennings poses for a photo at the state Capitol on March 28 in Atlanta. Not long ago, Mr. Jennings was not even an active voter. He had given up on polictics after the 2016 presidential election — his first time voting. But he was targeted by the New Georgia Project ahead of the 2022 elections and now helps reach out to would be voters.

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Davante Jennings cast his first ballot for Democrat Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential race. Republican Donald Trump’s election that year, he says, turned him from an idealistic college student to a jaded cynic overnight.