Part 2: Flip Georgia Get Out the Vote Special

The Young Turks

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🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Part 2: Georgia GOTV Special: Will Georgia continue to flip BLUE? Tune in to today's special TYT event featuring hosts Benjamin Dixon and John Iadarola, along with Cenk Uygur and Aida Rodiguez, as they count down to Georgia’s runoff election and encourage viewers to GET OUT THE VOTE. Guest segments with Dr. Rashad Richey, W Mondale Robinson, and Justin Horwitz.

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0:00.0	Welcome back ladies and gentlemen, none, gender conforming individuals to the flip, Georgia,
0:10.0	episode of the young Turks. I am joined by always, Jake Euger. I don't know. I had a Rodriguez
0:15.9	just joining us this hour. And Dr. Rashad Richie, despite the Wall Street Journal saying
0:20.0	that PhDs are not to be mentioned anymore. Dr. Rashad Richie is joining us. How's everyone
0:25.6	doing this evening? Excellent. Excellent. You know, I think that's actually a decent place to start,
0:32.4	right? Dr. Richie, you're down in Atlanta and one of the reasons I want to bring you on this
0:36.1	episode is because like I'm a transplant. You are authentic ATL, Georgia, down south Georgia
0:42.7	boys. Like you know, you know the history of the state. What do you feel is the number one thing
0:48.7	that progressives and Democrats for that matter need to be doing to win in January?
0:54.1	They need to keep engaging each other. One of the great things about a democracy is the ability,
1:01.2	obviously, to vote. The other part of that democracy is the ability to have personal conversations
1:06.0	and engage each other when it comes to issues. We really have to get outside of this,
1:10.3	who we like the best, right? Personality's aside, Republicans have given you the playbook.
1:17.2	You no longer have to like the person you vote for. If they represent a policy that you agree with
1:22.6	from your community, that's the person you need to vote for. And we're not going to get it perfect.
1:26.9	Joe Biden, Senator Harris, they were, they were never be a perfect model of progressive representation.
1:34.3	That is not what the game is about at this point. This is about moving the country in the right
1:40.3	direction. And I believe that if you engage people on that level with the conversation,
1:45.3	you're going to get a lot more traction. A lot of commercials are happening, a lot of text messages,
1:50.4	a lot of robocards, that's traditional stuff. You're going to need to engage voters who are typically
1:55.2	not engaged in order for the Democrats to win this election in Georgia.
1:58.3	What do you have in mind? Like to engage in ways that have, like we have several
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