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The Bakari Sellers Podcast

Where the Polls Went Wrong, With Tom Bonier

The Bakari Sellers Podcast

The Ringer

Politics, News

4.8966 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Bakari is joined by Democratic political strategist Tom Bonier to unpack what the polls got wrong about the election (3:28), why House Democrats performed more poorly than expected (17:26), and talk about ways to poll more accurately in the future (26:11). Host: Bakari Sellers Guest: Tom Bonier Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Thank you all for tuning in to another episode of the Bakari Sellers podcast.

0:16.0

Thank you for downloading, subscribing, and sharing.

0:19.0

Please make sure that you hit me up if you have any suggestions for guests that we should have on.

0:25.0

Our next week show is going to be so dope we have Susan Kolechi Watson on the show, but

0:29.9

this week's show we have Elections Guru Tom Bonier.

0:33.2

But before I get the Tom who will give us an election debrief,

0:35.8

I wanted to talk about y'all's president

0:37.7

in this transfer of power or lack thereof,

0:40.8

and making sense of the president and Republicans most recent attempts to

0:44.2

undermine our elections and our democracy. So everyone including President

0:49.1

Trump and congressional Republicans know that Trump lost. They also know that these legal challenges to their election

0:54.8

results are bogus. The president also won't concede he lost and his administration won't be helpful

1:00.4

in facilitating a transition with the Biden Harris team.

1:04.8

So the first question is, why are they doing this?

1:07.2

The answer is quite simple.

1:09.2

It's Georgia.

1:10.5

The balance of the Senate and the effectiveness of a Biden-Harriss administration hinges on Georgia.

1:15.5

And Republican success in Georgia will be based on whether or not the president's supporters come back out to vote.

1:21.5

Republicans know that we know the balance of the Senate is everything,

1:25.0

and Democrats are motivated to flip Georgia and the Senate.

1:28.0

And the only way to combat Stacey Abrams and the momentum that Georgia Democrats have right now is to have the

1:33.7

trumpers in Georgia foaming at the mouth. And what keeps them foaming at the mouth?

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