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Checks and Balance from The Economist

Checks and Balance: On my mind

Checks and Balance from The Economist

The Economist

Politics, News & Politics, News, Us Politics

4.6 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2020

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As 2020 draws to a close, the partisan feud is focused on Georgia. Joe Biden was the first Democrat in 28 years to win the state on the way to the White House. Run-off elections on January 5th will decide who controls the Senate - and Biden’s agenda. They will also test Donald Trump’s hold on his party as he refuses to admit defeat. Will Georgia tip the balance of American politics?


Pablo Montagnes of Emory University lays out Georgia’s political geography, Congresswoman-elect Nikema Williams and State Senator Jen Jordan account for the Democrats’ success, and Congressman Tom Graves assesses Republican fortunes. 


John Prideaux, The Economist's US editor, hosts with New York bureau chief Charlotte Howard, and Jon Fasman, Washington correspondent.


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0:00.0

This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats.

0:11.0

So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's.

0:15.0

Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply.

0:20.0

Check the Uber app. Bri honest you. Brianna Stewart was built to play ball.

0:27.0

She's six foot four and her famously long arms span over seven foot.

0:32.0

This summer she came back from injury to lead the

0:35.1

Seattle Storm to the W NBA basketball championship for the second time.

0:40.8

Stuart's politics weren't widely known until this year and may never have drawn attention

0:45.8

were it not for Kelly Lofler.

0:48.3

The Republican senator, who's also the owner of Atlanta's W-NBA team, tried to stop players showing their support for Black Lives

0:55.8

Matter.

0:57.8

Lofler annoyed the players so much they started showing up in t-shirts backing her opponent

1:02.4

in Georgia's Senate race,

1:04.0

Raphael Warnock, an African-American preacher.

1:08.0

The publicity and subsequent surge in donations

1:11.5

transformed the Democrats' campaign.

1:14.0

The result was close enough to force Lofler into a runoff next month,

1:18.2

which is how Brianna Stewart wound up intervening in the election once again, this time from Russia.

1:25.0

The stars of the WNBA take their talents to Europe in the winter,

1:28.0

where salaries can be three times higher.

1:31.0

Stuart has posted a video urging Georgians to vote for Reverend Warnock.

1:35.0

She says he's on the right side of history.

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