Hi, this is Addie Grace Cook and Columbia, South Carolina, where I just finished packing up the car for my first semester in college.

Today's episode was recorded at...

1-08 PM Eastern Time on Tuesday, August 30th.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I will still be setting journalism and politics in hopes of one day, being on the politics pod myself.

Here's the show.

That was my degree major. I was a journalism polycycure. Good choices.

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Hey, there. It's the NPR Politics Podcast. I'm a smah collar that I cover the White House.

I'm Ashley Lopez. I cover Politics.

And we are joined by one of our regular friends, the superb political reporter with Georgia Public Broadcasting, Stephen Fowler.

He's on the line with us from Atlanta. Hey there, Stephen.

Hey there.

And today on the show, we are going to talk about Republican Minority Outreach.

Republicans have invested millions of dollars into these community outreach centers to appeal to minorities in states like Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Texas.

The goal is to create a sustained political apparatus.

And, Stephen, you, in fact, visited one of these centers, so just help us understand what are they supposed to do?

So over the summer, I was in Gwyneth County. It's just Northeast of Atlanta. It's the second largest county in Georgia.

It's one of the most diverse counties in the country.

And I was in this little packed strip mall in a city called Swany, where dozens and dozens of people crowded in to open the Republican National Committees Hispanic Community Outreach Center.

And we heard from lots of different local Latino officials and people like Ray Martinez, who is a state house candidate.

I'm just as honored to be here today to open up the Republican National Committee Hispanic Community Center.

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