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🗓️ 29 December 2020
⏱️ 46 minutes
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0:00.0 | 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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