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🗓️ 17 December 2020
⏱️ 42 minutes
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0:00.0 | When she laid out her vision, this idea that we were going to add a million people to the voter rolls, |
0:08.0 | I told people I had 33 reasons why this would never work. |
0:12.0 | She had like 34 reasons why it is would never work. |
0:13.0 | She had like 34 reasons why it absolutely would work and she was right as usual. |
0:19.0 | This is Inseuufat, |
0:21.0 | CEO of the New Georgia Project, talking about a chance encounter in 2014. |
0:26.3 | A mutual friend said, you know, are you coming home for the holidays? |
0:29.0 | And I was like, yes, of course. |
0:30.5 | She said, I would love for you to meet this state rep. |
0:33.4 | Her name is Stacy Abrams, she's always some incredible things, |
0:35.6 | and I think you guys need to connect. |
0:37.2 | And I was such an asshole. |
0:39.2 | Like, I don't, I'm really coming home to hang with my family. I don't really need any new friends. |
0:45.1 | Like there's just a lot, you know. And then she was like, no, you guys should really have brunch. |
0:49.0 | And I was like, well, you should have led with that. Of course I have brunch with this random state representative because that is the national pastime in Atlanta. |
1:00.0 | We had brunch on New Year's Day in 2014. I had packed my truck by August, |
1:07.0 | drove the 24 hours from Ottawa and Canada where I was living at the time back home to Atlanta and now we are here |
1:15.4 | where we are today. Today Georgia looks very different than it did on New Year's |
1:22.2 | day in 2014. |
1:24.0 | Surrounded by five states that went red, |
1:26.6 | Georgia's a blue state for the first time since 1992. |
1:30.0 | To understand this shift, journalists, pundits, and everyday Americans have rightfully reflected on Georgia's 2018 gubernatorial election. |
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