RUTLEDGE, Ga. — After years of drama and delay, the electric auto maker Rivian broke ground on its new manufacturing plant east of Atlanta on Tuesday.

Governor Brian Kemp was in a line of people, ceremonially breaking ground on a project announced almost four years ago and abruptly interrupted last year.

"It has been a long, tough fight," Kemp told a crowd of at least 200 people, watching under a tent at what had been a hay field in Morgan County.

The Rivian project started up again after the Biden administration agreed to a $6.5 billion loan to the electric carmaker.

Rivian’s CEO R.J. Scaringe says he fully expects the Trump administration to deliver on the loan needed to get the Georgia plant built.

"This is an important project for the United States. This is an important project

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