I've heard so much about the Democratic get-out-the-vote effort in Georgia, the way Stacey Abrams worked for years to register voters and turn them out, the way that infrastructure clicked into place for Joe Biden, the way the party hopes it will keep clicking for the Democratic candidates for

Senate who are headed for a January runoff. But I called up Rusty Paul, because I wanted to know more

about the Republicans approach to these elections. And you know what? He was pretty blunt.

It's not about changing hearts and minds at this point.

Rusty is a party guy, as in he used to run the Republican Party in Georgia.

Now he's a mayor, just outside Atlanta.

But he's also this pragmatic kibitzer.

Like he looks at the hundreds of millions of dollars being spent on advertising in this Senate race.

And he says he can't help but think that's a great opportunity for someone.

It would be a great time to own a rural radio station or TV outlet because...

Just watch those ad dollars roll in?

Oh, yeah.

They're spending all kinds of money.

And it's OPM, other people's money.

That's the best kind.

That's it.

Coming from other places besides Georgia.

A lot of these ads are negative, really negative.

And in fact, when I look at how Republican senators Kelly Leffler and David Purdue are turning out their voters,

negativity seems to be the whole premise.

It's really designed to anger and scare the base to make sure that they show back up

on January 5th.

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