'If You Can Keep It': All Eyes Turn To Georgia
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🗓️ 11 March 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
President Joe Biden and presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump held dueling campaign rallies in Georgia over the weekend.
We continue our election series, "If You Can Keep It," and dig into some of the biggest political stories of the week. For this installment, we discuss the Georgia primary and check in with local election officials.
The state's elections have a sordid history with one of the candidates almost certainly set to stand come November.
We discuss what Georgia tell us about the general election and the state of our democracy more broadly.
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| 0:22.3 | Hey, it's Jen. Just a quick wherever you get podcasts. |
| 0:23.0 | Hey, it's Jen. |
| 0:24.0 | Just a quick heads up before we start the show. |
| 0:27.0 | The news is rapidly developing and things may have changed by the time you hear this episode. |
| 0:32.0 | For the very latest news, tune into your public |
| 0:35.1 | radio station and follow updates at nPR.org. As you may have noticed, a few of our podcast episodes have the phrase if you can |
| 0:51.0 | keep it in the headline. |
| 0:52.8 | Well, we're excited to officially announce the new series running weekly leading up to the election. |
| 0:58.2 | With me in studio is a voice you're very familiar with. |
| 1:01.7 | 1A's Todd Zwillick. He'll join us every Monday. And Todd, the name of the |
| 1:05.7 | series was actually your idea. Yeah, when we were planning this series, it's great to be with you, Jen. Thanks. |
| 1:11.6 | That phrase, if you can keep it, it actually goes back to a man |
| 1:16.8 | named James McHenry. He was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention, 1787. He was writing in his journal about the very last day of the Constitutional |
| 1:26.8 | Convention in September. |
| 1:28.3 | And he wrote in his journal this phrase that a lady who incidentally was a Mrs. Powell of Philadelphia asked |
| 1:35.4 | Dr Franklin Benjamin Franklin well doctor have what have we got a republic or a |
| 1:41.2 | monarchy and the doctor replied a republic or a monarchy and the doctor replied a republic ma'am if you can keep it. |
| 1:47.4 | That's the origin of the phrase and we chose it because with this series we want to focus |
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