“Two Americas.”
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🗓️ 7 January 2021
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Donald Trump incites a violent insurrection against the U.S. Capitol, and Democratic candidates Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff make history in Georgia, wresting control of the U.S. Senate away from Mitch McConnell. Then New Georgia Project CEO Nsé Ufot talks to Dan about how years of grassroots organizing paved the way for Tuesday’s victory.
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| 0:00.0 | [♪ OUTRO MUSIC PLAYING [♪ |
| 0:20.1 | Welcome to Potsay of America. I'm John Favreau. |
| 0:22.3 | I'm Dan Fifer. |
| 0:23.3 | So, late Tuesday night, you and I were texting |
| 0:27.1 | about how excited we were to talk about Georgia today. |
| 0:29.8 | And we're going to do that, including an interview with NSA UFOT, |
| 0:34.0 | one of the organizers whose years of work made the Senate victories |
| 0:37.6 | possible on Tuesday night. |
| 0:39.6 | But we have been robbed of the joy from those victories |
| 0:42.4 | by a mob of violent extremists who are encouraged to stage an insurrection |
| 0:46.7 | against the United States government by the man who was supposed to be leading it. |
| 0:51.4 | And so that is what we have to talk about first. |
| 0:55.0 | The congressional certification of the electoral college votes on Wednesday |
| 0:58.4 | should have been a routine event. It usually is. |
| 1:02.3 | But Donald Trump and well over 100 Republicans in Congress, |
| 1:05.5 | led by Senators Josh Holley and Ted Cruz, |
| 1:08.2 | decided that they would object to the election results in an effort to overturn |
| 1:12.0 | the will of the voters. |
| 1:14.4 | Donald Trump also urged his supporters multiple times to descend |
| 1:18.6 | on Washington over the last week, saying, quote, |
| 1:21.3 | be there, it will be wild. |
| 1:24.0 | Then on Wednesday morning, while Congress gathered to certify the election, |
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