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The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The Fight to Turn Georgia Blue

The Political Scene | The New Yorker

The New Yorker

Politics, Washington, News, Obama, Wnyc, President, Lizza, Barack, Wickenden

4.33.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

This month, Georgia flipped: its voters picked a Democrat for President for the first time since Bill Clinton’s first-term election. To a significant degree, Charles Bethea says, this was owing to political organizing among Black voters; after all, Donald Trump still received approximately seventy per cent of the white vote. Bethea tells David Remnick about the political evolution of the state, and he speaks with two Democratic organizers: Nsé Ufot, the C.E.O. of the New Georgia Project, and Royce Reeves, Sr., a city commissioner in Cordele, Georgia.

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On today's Politics and More podcast, the New Yorker's Charles Bethay talks to two political

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organizers mobilizing voters in Georgia ahead of the Senate runoffs in January.

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Unse Ufaat leads an organization that plans to knock on a million doors across the state to get

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out the vote.

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Meanwhile, Royce Reeves, a city commissioner in rural Cordial, Georgia,

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uses his personal connections to mobilize his town's black population.

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Nobody was quite expecting the state of Georgia to become a crucible of politics in America.

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But a major organizing effort by Democrats gave Georgia to Biden, the first

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time for a Democratic presidential candidate since 1992. Now both of Georgia's Senate seats are up for grabs

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in runoff races in January. The stakes could not be higher. These two seats will determine the

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balance of power in the Senate,

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