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Gaining Ground: The New Georgia

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Gaining Ground: The New Georgia

Tenderfoot TV & Crooked Media

Government, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4901 Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

After years of organizing in preparation for this moment, we arrive at Election Day 2020. Georgia makes history, flipping blue, as all eyes focus on the state’s crucial senate races.

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Part the reason that I'm so into politics is because I was pissed off that everybody kept telling me that I wasn't going to vote.

0:11.0

This is Kylie Brown, a student at Mercer University in Macon, Georgia.

0:16.0

Our generation has always heard young people don't vote.

0:19.9

Historically, young people don't vote. You guys have all these ideas, but we can't count on you.

0:25.0

And so what I told everyone I talked to on campus was we make up 21% of the electorate.

0:32.0

That is more than any generation before us. So I am so happy that we did have record

0:39.0

turnout in our generation. It was insane. 21% of voter turnout in Georgia came from young

0:45.5

voters between the ages of 18 and 29. According to NPR it was the highest

0:51.4

youth turnout of any state during the election.

0:54.0

Honestly, I could cry that makes me so happy.

0:58.0

I am so proud of my generation for actually being all crazy on Tik-Tok and then actually doing what

1:06.3

they said they were going to do and I want to keep it going I want to get more people

1:10.5

involved our vote matters If we show up, we make it matter.

1:16.5

From Tenderfoot TV and Crooked Media, this is gaining ground, the new Georgia.

1:27.9

In this episode, we arrive at Election Day 2020.

1:31.2

We examine the process, Georgia going from red to blue in the immediate aftermath of the

1:36.1

flip. I'm your host, Rember Brown, with Jewel Wicker. And tomorrow's election comes with a lot of uncertainty.

1:54.0

Across the country, cities are planning for election day.

1:57.0

Could you imagine if I lose my whole life, what am I going to do?

2:00.0

I'm not going to feel so good.

2:01.0

Maybe I'll have to leave the country.

2:02.8

I don't know.

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