Fear and partisanship in Georgia (with Gabriel Sterling)

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4.0 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The controversial new election law passed in Georgia has been derided by many, including Stacey Abrams and President Biden, and has inspired many high-profile businesses, like Major League Baseball, to relocate interests out of the state. But Gabriel Sterling, the chief financial and operations official in the office of the Georgia Secretary of State, is a defender of the law. Sterling, who was an outspoken critic of former President Trump’s bullying of state officials in the handling of the 2020 election, joins Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman and Victoria Bassetti to talk about what the law does and doesn’t do, whether or not the 2020 election was free and fair, and about whether or not Georgia’s Election Integrity Act of 2021 was, at its core, a Republican party power-grab.

GUEST:

Gabriel Sterling (@GabrielSterling), COO/CFO, Georgia Secretary of State

HOSTS:

Michael Isikoff (@Isikoff), Chief Investigative Correspondent, Yahoo News
Daniel Klaidman (@dklaidman), Editor in Chief, Yahoo News
Victoria Bassetti (@VBass), Fellow, Brennan Center for Justice (contributing co-host)

RESOURCES:

“Supreme Court to Hear Case on Carrying Guns in Public” by Adam Liptak, New York Times (Apr. 26, 2021)
“Mr. President, your misinformation on Georgia’s voting law is dangerous” by Gabriel Sterling, Washington Post (Apr. 14, 2021)

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0:00.0	This has to stop.
0:03.0	Yes, fight for every legal vote. Go through your due process.
0:06.0	We encourage you. Use your first amendment. That's fine.
0:09.0	Death threats. Physical threats.
0:13.0	Intimidation.
0:16.0	It's too much.
0:18.0	Mr. President,
0:20.0	it looks like you likely lost the state of Georgia.
0:24.0	We're investigating. There's always a possibility I get
0:27.0	and you have them rights to go through the courts.
0:29.0	What you don't have the ability to do and you need to step up and say this
0:32.0	is stop inspiring people to commit potential lives of violence.
0:35.0	Someone's going to get hurt. Someone's going to get shot.
0:38.0	Someone's going to get killed.
0:40.0	That was Georgia election official Gabriel Sterling.
0:43.0	Last fall, pleading with President Trump and his supporters
0:46.0	to stop their bogus claims about election fraud.
0:49.0	Unless somebody get hurt.
0:51.0	Sterling's comments prove prophetic, coming barely a month before the January 6th riot at the US Capitol.
0:57.0	And made him an instant hero to many around the country, including Democrats,
1:02.0	sickened by Trump's efforts to pedal patently bogus claims that the election was stolen from him.
1:08.0	But more recently, Sterling has spoken out in favor of a controversial Georgia election law
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