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Hello and welcome to the Americano podcast, a series of discussions about American politics, power and prejudices.

This year, 2024, is an election year in America, a presidential election year. And so we will be doing two podcasts a week, rather than our usual one,

because we want to and because we know you can't get enough Americano in your life.

I'm delighted to be joined today by Scarlett Maguire, who is a director at J.L. Partners,

which is a polling company that's British, but making quite a few waves in America already in this election year.

And we're going to be looking at swing states in 2024 because scarlet and jail partners have done

quite a lot of research into this and of course swing states decide elections so scarlet i thought

we do this our listeners obviously won't be able to see the map but i thought we just look at the

map and point out various swing states and just sort of go through each one and look at them.

Is that all right with you?

Yeah.

Okay.

Don't sound too enthusiastic.

Let's start with Georgia because Georgia, as a lot of our listeners will know, was very controversial in 2020.

Donald Trump thought that the sort of the election, the stolen election was stolen largely there.

And that is now, according to the polls, very good for Trump.

He's about six, seven points ahead in Georgia.

What's going on there?

What are the dynamics?

Yeah, so it was very close in 2020.

Biden only won by 0.2% of a percentage point, only about 11,000 votes in it. So incredibly close.

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