The Center Of The Political World (Georgia) & Future Of Democracy

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🗓️ 21 October 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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In a live show on Thursday, October 20th, at the Buckhead Theater in Atlanta, political correspondent Susan Davis, White House correspondent Tamara Keith and White House correspondent Asma Khalid discussed Georgia politics and the future of American democracy with WABE reporter Rahul Bali, GPB reporter Stephen Fowler, voting correspondent Miles Parks and national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

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0:00.0	Hi, my name is Elena Moore and I am recording the NPR Politics Podcast live at the Buckhead
0:07.0	Theatre in Atlanta.
0:13.1	This podcast was recorded on Thursday, October 20th at 8.25 pm Eastern. Things may have changed
0:21.3	by the time you hear this. Hey everyone, this is the NPR Politics Podcast live, come to you
0:38.3	from the Buckhead Theatre. I'm Tamaq Ali, I cover the White House. I'm Tamaq Ali, I also cover
0:43.4	the White House. I'm Susan Davis, I cover politics. I'm Raul Bally, I cover Georgia politics for WBE news.
0:49.6	I'm Stephen Fowler and I also cover Georgia politics for Georgia Public Broadcasting.
0:53.6	And we are here in Atlanta, Georgia and thankfully we've got a lot more folks today watching us in
0:59.8	the audience helping us make a podcast than we normally do when we sit in our silent little studio.
1:04.8	So let us get into the show. There has been a lot happening politically here in Georgia. I will
1:11.2	say it is sort of kind of become the center of the political universe here in the United States.
1:16.6	So I want to get started with you, Raul. You've believed in Georgia for a long time. You've covered
1:22.6	politics for a long time. What's it been like watching your own home state become the epicenter of
1:28.4	politics? Exhausting. I mean, I think we now understand and know what the people in Florida and
1:35.7	Ohio felt like for years. The visits, you know, the people, you know, last night I was at an event
1:44.8	for Rafael Warnock with Manuel Miranda. We didn't have big celebrities coming just a few years ago.
1:50.9	And the number of presidential visits, you know, I think back for those of you who are in this
1:56.0	theater and who've been from Atlanta, this used to be called the Roxy. And John Kerry held an event
2:01.6	here 18 years ago and I think was just one of a handful of events. Now of course, presidential
2:06.4	candidates, they come multiple times and surrogates and celebrities, they come all the time now.
2:12.3	Yeah, I mean, it is a little strange having I say the black hole at the center of the political
2:17.6	universe be right here in Georgia. Great for job security. Absolutely. But it is interesting because
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