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Don’t Forget Georgia

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

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Daily News, News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 January 2021

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

After the storming of the Capitol, Democrats’ victories in Georgia’s runoff Senate races sort of got lost in the shuffle. But Georgia going blue for the first time in nearly two decades is a big deal. And the state's Democratic activists say the moment is still worth recognizing.


Guest: Tiffany Roberts, civil rights attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights, Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, and Renee Montgomery, activist and player on the Atlanta Dream.


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0:00.0

Hey, what next listener. I know a lot has happened over the last few days. We've gone from Congress

0:11.1

working to certify Joe Biden's election to a week later approving an article of impeachment against

0:18.6

the president again.

0:26.4

And in between these two formal bureaucratic bookends, we've been inundated with videos showing just how determined some people are to violently disrupt American democracy.

0:33.1

It's a lot.

0:35.2

So I want to rewind the clock to the early morning hours on January 6th when we weren't talking about a siege on the Capitol.

0:45.4

We were talking about a historic double runoff in Georgia because it's worth remembering.

0:51.4

American democracy is still kicking, even if it's battered and bruised.

1:00.8

When I woke up, the first thing that I said to my daughter was pastor won the election, and she immediately parked up.

1:09.9

Tiffany Roberts is an attorney in Atlanta.

1:12.8

She also goes to Ebenezer Baptist Church.

1:15.6

That's where Senator-elect Raphael Warnock is pastor.

1:19.7

My producer Davis spoke to her Wednesday morning before the riot in Washington.

1:25.2

She told him she hadn't stayed up to watch the returns

1:27.6

because she didn't want to put her daughter

1:29.7

through an emotional roller coaster.

1:32.5

She had been so impacted by the negative campaign ads

1:36.3

because she doesn't really understand.

1:38.8

She's six.

1:39.7

So it's not as though she understands it's like a campaign.

1:42.4

You know what I mean?

1:43.0

She gives it, but she doesn't understand it.

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