Stacey Abrams: "Either You're a Patriot or You're Not"

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🗓️ 10 October 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Host Brian Stelter is joined by author, organizer, and former Georgia representative Stacey Abrams to examine Kamala Harris’s chances this November inside the swing state, ongoing efforts by Republicans to suppress voting rights and sow chaos across the country, and Abrams’ plans to help salvage democracy. Abrams, whose playbook and organizing power in 2020 helped Joe Biden deliver Georgia, a red–now purple–state that hadn’t voted for a Democratic presidential candidate in more than 20 years, and a trifecta in Washington with the state’s 2021 runoffs, says that part of her strategy is to find voters who wouldn’t otherwise turn out and encourage people to participate in the democratic process even if they don’t plan to vote for the Democrat.

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0:38.8	This election season is such an intense stress test.
0:42.4	So Stacy, how are you feeling right now?
0:45.8	I feel as though we are all on the edge of a precipice and
0:56.9	we have the opportunity to walk it back and a lot more people are ready to retreat and move back toward sanity and so the goal is to encourage people to follow their instincts and back on up.
1:06.0	That is Stacy Abrams, the Voting Rights Activist, podcaster, and author.
1:12.0	Abrams served in the Georgia House of Representatives for a decade and ran for governor twice.
1:17.0	And I'm Brian Stelter. Let me welcome you to Inside the Hive from Vanity Fair. This week we are going to inside the hive from Vanity Fair.
1:23.6	This week we are going inside the swing state of Georgia with someone who understands its
1:27.9	politics better than just about anyone.
1:30.8	With early voting getting underway in many battlegrounds time is of the essence.
1:35.3	But Abrams says voter suppression is underway too in several different ways you
1:40.7	should know about.
1:41.3	Abrams is also sounding an alarm about GOP efforts to sow chaos after election day.
1:48.0	So let's get into it.
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