work that I did and turned out thousands of people are safe to do, you cannot do anymore.

Why is that?

It's a misdemeanor by the law to give water or to hand out anything to anybody at the polls because

the other side was convinced that our mobilizations were helping and turning out people to the polls.

All right, I'm so glad to be joined today on Bad Faith Podcast by Billy Michael

Honor, who's organizing director of the Action Fund of the New Georgia Project. Welcome to

Bad Faith. I'm glad to be with you. Thanks for having me.

So, what a way to reach out was there has been a lot of chatter both in written news media and

on shows like MSNBC and CNN about a growing concern about what Joe Biden faces, particularly

with black voters, particularly with black male voters as he faces down 2024. And this conversation

seems to have been exacerbated in part because of Cornell West entry into the race,

the perception being that unlike some other potential third party or green party candidates,

because he has such name recognition and broad respect within the black community that he could

pose a real issue for the Democrats as they head into 2024. In particular, I noticed one commentator

in a clip that has been doing the rounds around the left mentioned new Georgia project and that

people that she spoke to with your organization were expressing concern that as they were knocking

doors and trying to get off the boat the way that they did back in 2020, they're just not getting

the same level of enthusiasm that they had hoped. Joe Biden became the first Democrat to win a presidential

election in Georgia since 1992 when he won in 2020 and just to show how crucial black voters were

to that win by our calculations, if less than 1% of black voters stayed home or voted for Trump,

the outcome of the selection could have been very different. And basically, something that we heard

on the ground from the director of organizer from the New Georgia project, which is

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