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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Greg Bluestein and the Political State of Georgia

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Bakari Sellers is joined by political reporter for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Greg Bluestein to discuss his new book, ‘Flipped: How Georgia Turned Purple and Broke the Monopoly on Republican Power’ (5:07), how much credit is owed to Stacey Abrams for Georgia’s impact on the 2020 election (7:08), and why the peach state is so critical in the 2022 election (12:13). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Greg Bluestein Producer: Donnie Beacham Executive Producer: Jarrod Loadholt Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to another. that it's going to be okay.

0:16.0

Welcome to another episode of the Bicari Sales podcast. Today we have just an consummate reporter.

0:19.0

It's been amazing and just a privilege to watch his rise because he knows all things

0:23.6

politics he has a good sense of journalism and politics and he's none other

0:27.5

than Greg Bloisting what's going on my brother how are you?

0:30.3

Hey thank you so much for having me. I'm doing great.

0:33.0

It's good to be with you not on Twitter.

0:35.0

I know a lot of people say that.

0:36.7

For the past three years, we've been getting to know each other on Twitter, so it's a pleasure

0:39.4

to be with you in person, kind of in person, kind of in person, like, over a virtual Zoom call, but still at least I can see.

0:46.2

We usually start each one of our episodes by having our guest walk us through the arc of their careers.

0:51.5

You're a career journalist, so talk about your beats from your first job out of the University of Georgia. We will forgive you for that.

0:57.0

To your beat now for the AJC or the Atlanta Journal Constitution.

1:01.0

Yeah, I mean my first, my first journalism experience

1:05.1

is really at the Red and Black, the college newspaper at UGA,

1:07.7

Go Dogs, where, you know, they threw you right into it.

1:11.6

Back then it was a five day a week newspaper.

1:13.9

So every day I'd find something that would be worthy

1:17.5

of going on the front page.

1:18.9

I covered student government.

1:20.3

I covered judiciary.

1:22.2

I covered crime and cops. it's funny because a lot of the people I've covered

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