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The Beat with Ari Melber

Record turnout on first day of early voting in Georgia

The Beat with Ari Melber

Ari Melber, MS NOW

Politics, News, Versant Media, Ms Now, Daily News, Versant, Government

4.64.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 October 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

MSNBC's Ari Melber hosts "The Beat" on Tuesday, October 15, and reports on the 2024 election. Plus, Melber is joined by Trump vets Sarah Matthews, Olivia Troye, and Marc Lotter. Former RNC Chair Michael Steele also joins the panel. To listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads, sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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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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