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Gaining Ground: The New Georgia

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Gaining Ground: The New Georgia

Tenderfoot TV & Crooked Media

Government, Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.4901 Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

As Georgia gears up for another Election Day, we take a look back at the significance of the 2018 Governor’s race that vaulted Stacey Abrams and Georgia politics onto the national stage. For a transcript of this episode, please visit gaininggroundpodcast.com.

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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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