Hi, I'm Dan Pramak, and welcome to Axios Recap. Today is Thursday, April 15th. U.S. retail sales are up,

COVID deaths are down, and we're watching Georgia politics again.

Georgia has become America's new Florida, or maybe it's New Ohio, the state at the singular

center of American politics, as highlighted by former President Trump's continued broadsides

against Georgia's Republican Secretary of State and Governor, plus a U.S. Senate whose Democratic

majority owes its very existence to a pair of Georgia

runoff elections. Lately, of course, the Peach State has been making headlines for a new voting

law that Republicans argue is about integrity and Democrats argue is about suppression, but which both

sides agree is costing Georgia business. Will Smith, for example, just canceled plans to film a new movie

called Emancipation in the state, citing the voting law that he called quote unquote regressive.

Again, all of this is Georgia specific, but it has national resonance. Georgia's voting law,

for example, isn't too different from voting laws under consideration in other states. Plus, state-level

officials from throughout the country have been taking the lead on national issues, from COVID-19

response to suing big tech for antitrust violations. So we wanted to talk with Georgia State

Senator Jen Jordan, a Democrat who opposed the new voter law and who this week announced her candidacy for Georgia Attorney General.

If Jordan's name sounds familiar, it may be because you saw a viral video of her dissent in HB481, an abortion law passed in 2019.

We'll speak with her about Georgia's time under the microscope, the rising significance of state-level offices, and how

running for those offices has evolved.

We're joined now by Jen Jordan, who just announced her candidacy for Attorney General of the

state of Georgia. Was there a particular

moment where in your brain you thought, yep, I'm running. And if so, what was it?

You know, there were several. Being in the state senate, we've been dealing with some difficult

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