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FiveThirtyEight Politics

Trump's Revenge Primary In Georgia Fails

FiveThirtyEight Politics

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Politics, News

4.620.6K Ratings

🗓️ 25 May 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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The crew discusses the results of the primary elections in Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Arkansas and Minnesota. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to this late night primary reaction edition of the 538 Politics Podcast

0:14.2

I'm Gaelin Drink.

0:16.0

Before we get going tonight, I want to take note of the really horrific news out of

0:21.0

Uvalde, Texas today.

0:23.0

It's a tragedy and my thoughts are with everyone affected.

0:27.3

We'll perhaps talk about whether the string of mass shootings will shape public opinion

0:32.1

in a future conversation.

0:34.1

It's actually a conversation we've had numerous times in the six and a half years that we've

0:39.2

been doing this podcast.

0:40.9

But we'll see.

0:41.9

We'll talk about it again and we'll see where public opinion goes.

0:45.6

But let's talk about tonight's primaries.

0:47.9

We have results in many of the high profile races in Georgia, Texas, Alabama and Arkansas.

0:55.8

In Georgia in particular, it looks like in many ways as expected, Trump's endorses

1:01.4

have come up short.

1:03.0

In fact, at the time that we're recording this at around 1130 at night, Eastern with some

1:09.8

80% of the results in Georgia, it looks like incumbent Republican governor Brian Kemp

1:16.4

is leading his challenger, David Perdue, by about 50 points.

1:21.1

Now, of course, those results could change once they are filled out, but it's clear

1:27.5

that Perdue never came anywhere remotely close to unseeding Brian Kemp.

1:34.2

So, let's talk about what this all means and some of the results in other states tonight.

1:38.9

Here's me to talk about it is politics editor, Sir, Frostensen, hey, Sarah.

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