Recode Decode: Stacey Abrams, candidate for governor, Georgia

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Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2017

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Stacey Abrams, a candidate running for governor of Georgia and former minority leader of its general assembly, talks with Recode's Kara Swisher and SKDK's Hilary Rosen about the early stages of the campaign. Abrams explains why everyone needs to be talking a lot more about the automation of jobs, why she's wary of blank-check tax incentives written for tech companies and why Democrats learned the wrong lessons about the internet from Barack Obama's campaign in 2008. She also discusses how she is using technology and how she contends with some voters' reductive tendency to only think of her as "the black candidate." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Recode Radio presents Recode Decode coming to you from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:07.0	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Executive Editor of Recode.
0:11.0	You may know me as someone who would be at Georgia Peach if only I were from Georgia and felt like being nice.
0:16.5	But in my spare time I talk tech and you're listening to Recode Decode,
0:20.0	a podcast about tech and media's key players, big ideas and how they're changing the world we live in.
0:24.5	You can find more episodes of Recode Decode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play Music or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
0:31.5	Or just visit recode.net slash podcasts for more.
0:35.5	Today I'm in New York City with my friend Hillary Rosen.
0:38.5	She's a political strategist for SKD, Nicarbocker and a political commentator for CNN.
0:44.5	Hey Hillary, hey Cara, how you doing?
0:46.5	I am awesome.
0:47.5	Good. Throughout November, Hillary and I are doing a bunch of interviews together where she is my guest host,
0:52.5	talking to some really interesting people from the political world for bonus episodes of Recode Decode.
0:57.5	Apparently you all can't get enough and so we're going to give you more.
1:00.5	And today's guest is Stacey Abrams, a candidate for Governor of Georgia.
1:05.5	She formerly served in Georgia's General Assembly and was its House Minority Leader.
1:10.5	Stacey, welcome to Recode Decode.
1:12.5	Thank you for having me.
1:13.5	Thanks for coming in. It's great. You're in New York.
1:15.5	Just around, running around, running around.
1:17.5	So let's get started about your background.
1:20.5	One of the things we do in Recode Decode, even if it's Bill Gates, we want to know how you got to where you got.
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