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The Conversation with Dasha Burns

The one place where the 2020 election isn't over

The Conversation with Dasha Burns

POLITICO

News, Government, Politics

4.01.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

It's a political cliche to say that the stakes couldn't be higher — but we're looking at Georgia and the stakes couldn't be higher! Republicans and Democrats are feeling the pressure as they vie for the Senate majority, which has major implications for Joe Biden's presidency. Senate reporter James Arkin talks to Scott about his latest trip down to Georgia. Scott Bland is the host of Nerdcast and a politics editor at POLITICO.James Arkin is a Senate campaigns reporter at POLITICO.Annie Rees is a producer for POLITICO audio.Jenny Ament is senior producer for POLITICO audio.Irene Noguchi is the executive producer of POLITICO audio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

January 5th, this state, we the people of the state, we will decide, we will chart a course forward for this country.

0:11.0

The stakes really could not be higher for these two

0:16.5

run-offs. It all comes down to Georgia. We journalists are very very fond of saying the stakes could not be higher.

0:25.8

It's also something that I've heard from every single Republican and Democrat that I've talked to

0:29.2

for the past however many weeks.

0:31.7

But it genuinely seems to be true in Georgia right now.

0:34.4

You are going to change the future of this country by voting for Republicans in this race.

0:40.0

I'm Scott Bland. This is nerdcast. We just had a presidential election and that's over.

0:47.0

But for Georgia, things are very much not over.

0:51.0

And the results of these runoff elections coming up in January are going to determine

0:55.8

just what Joe Biden can do as president.

0:58.2

To do these things, we need the United States Senate.

1:01.5

And the people of Georgia are matching this intense political pressure with wild enthusiasm.

1:07.0

We're about to say two brand new state senators to Washington.

1:12.8

People are let up.

1:13.6

People are very, very excited.

1:15.3

Our own James Arkansas

1:16.4

this firsthand on a recent trip to Georgia.

1:18.5

What does that sound like?

1:19.7

You know, you can kind of, you count enthusiasm

1:21.4

by how many cars show up and how many car horns you can hear in the background of the speeches.

1:26.0

I mean you leave these events with a headache because the the car horns are blaring for an hour and a half.

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