Midnight Train (Back) to Georgia (with Greg Bluestein)
The Focus Group Podcast
The Bulwark
4.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 3 December 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
We're wrapping up this election cycle in Georgia with voters who voted for Herschel Walker in November — but aren't so sure about him going into the December 6 runoff. Atlanta Journal-Constitution political reporter Greg Bluestein joins Sarah for one last focus group in 2022.
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| 0:14.6 | Hello everyone and welcome to the focus group podcast I'm Sarah Longwell publisher of the bull work and this week we've got Georgia on our minds because it is run-off time |
| 0:21.4 | so Republicans had a solid night in Georgia on November 8th. |
| 0:25.8 | Governor Brian Kemp beat Stacy Abrams a second time winning by around 7.5 points. |
| 0:32.0 | Secretary of State Brad Rathonsberger, |
| 0:34.3 | personal favorite of mine, got reelected by around 9 points. |
| 0:38.3 | And then there's Rochelle Walker, whose controversies |
| 0:42.0 | we discussed at length in the last Georgia episode with time reporter |
| 0:46.1 | Molly Ball he can only pull in about 48.5% of the vote. So this focus group that we did was super interesting. Most of the group voted for |
| 0:57.2 | Herschel Walker, but for one reason or another, when we did our screener to find people they screened as on the fence about the |
| 1:06.0 | runoff so undecided I'll also add that this entire group voted for Donald Trump in |
| 1:11.2 | 2016 and all but two voted for him in 2016 and all but two voted for him in 2020. Now my |
| 1:16.4 | guest today is Greg Blustein political reporter at the Atlanta Journal |
| 1:21.4 | Constitution and the author of the book flipped how Georgia turned purple and broke the monopoly on |
| 1:27.5 | Republican power. Greg, thanks for being here. I'm so excited to have you. |
| 1:31.7 | Oh, I'm honored to be here. |
| 1:33.0 | Thanks for having me. |
| 1:34.0 | So one of the things that has been just like great fun on this podcast is I've gotten to have sort of the |
| 1:39.1 | John Ralston, you know, the people who are like the political person from the state to listen to |
| 1:43.4 | the groups and you're that you're that person there in Georgia which has |
| 1:47.0 | becomes such an important state in the political conversation but so what are you |
| 1:50.9 | doing right now as we head into this runoff? |
| 1:53.0 | So we're taping this on the Friday before the runoff and this is the peak behind the |
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