Discussing Georgia’s Midterm Election Results and Diving Into International Politics

Our Body Politic

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News Commentary, Documentary, Society & Culture, Government, News

4.8 • 658 Ratings

🗓️ 11 November 2022

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This week, Farai interviews Tia Mitchell, Washington Correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and chair of the National Association of Black Journalists about the U.S. midterm election results in Georgia and what they tell us about the nation’s political atmosphere. And on this week’s roundtable foreign policy expert, host of “Oh My World” on Youtube, and Our Body Politic guest host, Hagar Chemali, is joined by Ash Sarkar, contributing editor for UK-based media company Novara Media, and Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering foreign affairs, to talk about the latest political news in Brazil and the United Kingdom.

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0:50.7	This is Our Body Politic. I'm Farai Chidea. Our guest closely followed the 2022 midterm election with a special focus on Georgia. A graduate of Florida A&M University, Tia Mitchell
0:56.5	has covered politics across multiple levels of government, providing insight into a range of topics
1:02.2	including money in politics and government accountability. As Washington correspondent for the
1:07.3	Atlanta Journal Constitution, Mitchell covers Congress and National Politics for Readers in the Peach State.
1:13.5	She is also chair of the National Association of Black Journalist Political Task Force.
1:18.5	Welcome to Our Body Politics, Tia.
1:20.8	Thank you so much for having me.
1:22.8	So you have been on grind, I'm guessing, covering them politics.
1:27.1	Yes, it's been a busy few weeks, and we've got another, what, three and a half weeks to go now.
1:34.2	We're going to get to that key Senate race out of Georgia.
1:37.5	But just let's start with a big picture.
1:39.9	Like, how do you think this midterm cycle differed from other ones you've covered?
1:46.3	Well, I think the fact that Democrats were able to avoid the kind of landslide that usually comes, you know, usually the party in power loses a lot of seats in the midterms.
2:00.5	President Trump experienced that. President Trump experienced that.
2:02.5	President Obama experienced that. And it looks like Democrats will likely lose some seats,
2:08.9	like even redistricting alone, Democrats lost a seat in Georgia just before any votes were even
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