Midterm Update: Voter Suppression In Georgia; Trump Stumps For Former Rival In TX

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🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Half a million voters were purged from the voter roll by the Republican candidate for governor in Georgia. How are voter purges influencing elections this year? And in Texas, the president rallied for his former rival Senator Ted Cruz. Why does the president need to rally for a candidate in a heavily Republican state? This episode: White House correspondent Tamara Keith, national political correspondent Mara Liasson, political editor Domenico Montanaro, WABE reporter Johnny Kauffman, and KUT reporter Ashley Lopez. Email the show at nprpolitics@npr.org. Find and support your local public radio station at npr.org/stations.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Mark from Des Moines, Iowa, where I just finished voting in the election.
0:05.5	This podcast was recorded at...
0:07.1	406 PM on Tuesday, 23 October.
0:10.8	Things may have changed by the time you listen to this.
0:13.8	Enjoy the show!
0:17.6	Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.
0:20.3	With less than two weeks to go, we're going to look at key races around the country.
0:25.4	In Georgia, the Republican candidate for governor is responsible for purging half a million
0:30.6	voters from the roles.
0:32.4	And President Trump headed to Texas to stump for his old rival, Ted Cruz.
0:37.0	I'm Tamar Keith, I cover the White House.
0:39.2	I'm Mara Lias and a National Political Correspondent.
0:42.3	And today we're bringing in Johnny Kaufman from Member Station W-A-B-E in Atlanta.
0:47.3	Hey Johnny, hello.
0:48.9	You've been investigating this voter purge in Georgia along with APM reports and reveal.
0:56.2	What did you find?
0:57.5	In July of 2017, this is a few months after the Republican Secretary of State Brian
1:02.7	Kemp declared that he was going to run for governor.
1:05.5	In July, there were about 100,000 people removed from Georgia's voter roles for not voting.
1:14.2	And this is part of the voter purge process, it's regular, it happens every two years.
1:19.3	There was a total of over half a million people removed at that same time.
1:23.7	And so you say that voter purges are a regular thing?
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