Record turnout on first day of early voting in Georgia
The Beat with Ari Melber
Ari Melber, MS NOW
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🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 44 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're watching the beat with Ari Melba here on MSNBC. Charlemagne had said on that |
| 0:05.3 | feed that they had a few minutes left. As you can hear along with us, we at MSNBC were playing |
| 0:11.5 | this and if we get the feedback we'll bring it back to you. I also want to tell you here on tonight's episode of the B. We're going to be discussing |
| 0:17.2 | Some of those key moments and highlights from that interview |
| 0:21.5 | Which was a big part of the Harris Blitz today |
| 0:24.6 | that I'm gonna talk to you about. |
| 0:25.6 | So again, if you've been listening along with us, |
| 0:28.1 | we were told there were a couple minutes left. |
| 0:29.6 | We lost the audio feed there from the breakfast club, a town hall in Detroit with radio host, Charlotte. the because I've got more to say about and more to report about what's going on in Detroit, as well as a very big set of developments tonight. |
| 0:48.0 | I can tell you voting now has started in Georgia, the battleground which proved key for President Biden's victory the Biden Harris |
| 0:54.2 | campaign's victory that put her in the position and now be this close to the |
| 0:57.4 | presidency. It was also key as you might recall the Democrat Senate control |
| 1:01.1 | and now tonight for the first time we're reporting over a quarter million people today. |
| 1:06.8 | Today alone voted in Georgia. |
| 1:08.2 | That is actually, if it sounds like a lot, the most ever on day one of early voting there. That is a state that was of course very close. |
| 1:15.8 | When we tell you about early voting we are telling you something about civic involvement |
| 1:19.6 | about high interest and turnout. I want to be clear we are not telling you what that means |
| 1:23.5 | about where the votes went today. They will not be tallied until election day. |
| 1:26.9 | Voting is available though in over a dozen states now. We've been covering |
| 1:30.8 | that. Over 5 million people I can tell you have voted nationwide I'm going to continue to track that number for you here on the beat because it shows |
| 1:37.9 | Participation I can also tell you that the Harris campaign thinks if they get really high participation will be good for them. |
| 1:43.0 | But again, this is a sign of what's happening. |
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