And welcome to another episode of Bacari Sells podcast.

Today we have somebody brilliant who is a friend of the show.

And she's been on before and I just enjoy reading you. You give us a certain perspective.

And I've noticed you rocking your Howard today. You didn't have no Hampton stuff in your wardrobe?

Never. Never Hampton.

We have none other than Maya King with us today. Talk

about what you're doing in the world, what your beat is, what you're covering, and what you're

seeing out there. Sure. Well, thanks for having me, Bacari. Glad to be back. I'm still based here in

Atlanta and covering politics in the southeast. And I think we're in a point right now, you know,

it's the holiday

season. Folks are slowing down just a bit. We're not necessarily in campaign season in Atlanta

or in Georgia, really. There's a few outstanding municipal races, but nothing too crazy. So we're still

sort of into autopsy world thinking about what happened in 2024 and what that

means, particularly on the presidential level, for how Democrats rebuild.

I will not look ahead to 26 or 28 yet.

I think we're still in a bit of a fact-finding mission and trying to see, you know, how the

party will be able to readap to this new

political environment over the next year.

I do have a 26, 28 question for you, but I'll get there in a minute.

But let's talk about what we saw.

One of the things that people were talking about was the decrease in black turnout, particularly

in rural areas.

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