What Next: Abrams vs. Kemp vs. Perdue

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🗓️ 14 December 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

When Georgia Governor Brian Kemp announced his intent to run for reelection, he knew he was facing down a rematch with voting rights activist and former state lawmaker Stacey Abrams. What he likely didn’t expect was a challenge from the right in the form of David Perdue, a local businessman, former senator, and good friend who was encouraged to run against him by Donald Trump. Now, the question is whether Trumpism can be a winning argument in Georgia—or whether Democrats might be able to exploit Republicans’ division to score a win in the deeply purple state. Guest: Greg Bluestein, reporter covering state politics for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Oh, is that a pumpkin spice latte?
0:03.2	No, it's the pumpkin spice latte.
0:05.9	Starbucks?
0:06.9	Obviously.
0:07.9	You know, I once got so obsessed with pumpkin spice, I only wore orange for a month.
0:11.3	Ugh, that's nothing.
0:12.6	I once got so obsessed I got a pumpkin shaming into my hair.
0:15.0	Oh yeah?
0:16.0	Well last year I cured outside Starbucks for a week.
0:18.3	And my tent was a shape of a pumpkin?
0:19.8	Well, I'm changing my name to pumpkin spicy.
0:24.9	The Starbucks original is back.
0:26.7	So all out pumpkin spice, subject to availability while stocks last.
0:35.8	Almost as soon as I got Atlanta Journal Constitution reporter Greg Bluestein on the phone, we got
0:41.4	interrupted.
0:42.4	And let me pause really quickly here, my doorbell just rang.
0:44.9	I didn't hear it, but if you need to go get that Amazon Prime, in pandemic times, interruptions
0:53.3	like this are pretty common, just not this kind.
0:57.2	That's cool.
0:58.2	Someone is delivering us a cake.
1:00.5	Greg's a political reporter.
1:02.4	This is the weird thing about covering this stuff.
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