Come along for a Georgia presidential history summer road trip

Built in 1888, the Plains Depot, the site of Jimmy Carter's 1976 Presidential Campaign Headquarters, is the oldest building in Plains, Georgia. (Sam Gringlas/WABE News)

The Peach State could be a deciding factor in the 2024 presidential election, as it was in 2020. But Georgia’s status as a critical state in presidential history isn’t new.

On this week’s special Independence Day episode of “Plugged In: A WABE Politics Podcast,” politics reporter Sam Gringlas takes listeners on a summer road trip to a pair of towns that helped shape former presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Georgia’s own Jimmy Carter.