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The Playbook Podcast

January 5, 2021: Georgia on everyone's minds

The Playbook Podcast

POLITICO

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🗓️ 5 January 2021

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Perdue vs. Ossoff, Warnock vs. Loeffler, MAGA rallies and more in today's audio briefing.

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0:00.0

Stay tuned for a message from Facebook after the show.

0:04.9

Good morning. If you woke up with a feeling of deja vu today, it's probably because it's

0:11.0

election day. Again, I'm Adrienne Hurst and welcome to your Politico Playbook audio briefing.

0:17.7

This is it, Election Day in Georgia. We've got doubleheader runoff races that will decide which

0:23.8

party controls the Senate, and as a result, how easy or difficult it will be for President-elect

0:29.9

Joe Biden to make his policy promises a reality when he's sworn in in a few short weeks.

0:36.2

It all comes down to two races. Republican Senator David

0:40.3

Purdue faces off against Democrat John Ossoff, while GOP Senator Kelly Leffler battles for her seat

0:47.0

against Democrat Raphael Warnock. In this once-Ruby Red state that flipped for Biden in November,

0:53.5

both races are nail biters heading into

0:55.8

election day. Last night, President Donald Trump was the raging elephant in the glass shop of Georgia

1:01.4

politics. He held an election eve rally in the state where he repeated baseless claims of widespread

1:06.9

voter fraud. And while he managed to squeeze in some praise for the Republican candidates he

1:12.0

was supporting, he spent most of that time attacking Georgia's election officials and falsely claiming

1:18.0

the November 3rd election was a fraud. Heading into what's sure to be a whirlwind of a Tuesday,

1:24.0

here are four key benchmarks Georgia insiders are watching. Number one, strong black voter

1:30.5

turnout. Black voters who overwhelmingly back Democrats and have the chance to elect the South's

1:36.2

first black Democratic senator in Warnock make up 30 percent of the overall voter rolls in Georgia.

1:42.8

And so far, they've cast almost a third of the early

1:45.5

in-person votes in-absentee ballots, according to the website Georgia votes.

1:50.2

Number two, weak Trump voter turnout. While black voters are turning out in high numbers,

1:55.6

voters in Trump's strongholds aren't really matching them. And that's why the president

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