Roundup: GOP Boosts Power By Gerrymandering North Carolina
The NPR Politics Podcast
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4.4 • 25.7K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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This episode: campaign correspondent Sarah McCammon, Georgia Public Broadcasting reporter Stephen Fowler, voting correspondent Ashley Lopez, and senior political editor and correspondent Ron Elving.
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| 0:00.0 | Listening to the news can feel like a journey. |
| 0:03.1 | The 1A podcast is here to guide you beyond the headlines and cut through the noise. |
| 0:08.2 | Listen to 1A, where we celebrate your freedom to listen |
| 0:12.0 | by getting to the heart of the story together, only from NPR. |
| 0:16.8 | Hey, this is Paula Wolfe in Raleigh, North Carolina. |
| 0:20.7 | I'm looking out my office window at the beautiful colors of fall. |
| 0:25.2 | In Chicago, where I grew up, fall lasted about a minute before the cold wind and snow came. |
| 0:32.8 | This podcast was recorded at 108 PM Eastern Time on Friday, October 27th, 2023. |
| 0:39.8 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:44.8 | Hmm, I love fall. |
| 0:46.8 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics podcast. |
| 0:48.9 | I'm Sarah McCammon. |
| 0:49.9 | I cover the presidential campaign. |
| 0:51.3 | And I'm Ron Elving, Editor of Correspondent. |
| 0:54.1 | Today on the show, we'll be talking about court fights around congressional maps. |
| 0:58.3 | And we're going to talk about two states, Georgia and North Carolina, |
| 1:01.6 | where those fights are playing out. |
| 1:03.3 | Joining us today is Steven Fowler from Georgia Public Broadcasting. |
| 1:06.8 | Hey, Steven, good to have you with us. |
| 1:08.3 | Always a pleasure. |
| 1:09.3 | And we're going to start in Georgia, where a federal judge has ruled that the state |
| 1:13.2 | must create a new majority black congressional district in Atlanta. |
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