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Seven out of ten hbcus, are private in the state of georgia. they cannot. do you believe that was deliberate step taken to make it harder for hbcu students to vote -- given the precision of what georgia is trying to do and suppressing one group of voters over the other? >> go i kind of think this is a rhetorical question. >> it is a little bit. but i want you to explain to our viewers who may not know why i was posing it to you that way. >> yes. yes. so, as cliff already asserted, there was a ne...

This week that under georgia law -- can use student i.d. to vote, but those private schools, and seven out of ten hbcus, are private in the state of georgia. they cannot. do you believe that was deliberate step taken to make it harder for 80 bc -- given the precision of what georgia is trying to do and suppressing one group of voters over the other? >> go i kind of think this is a rhetorical question. >> it is a little bit. but i want you to explain to our viewers who may not know why i was posi...

Wasnt 2008 and say, this is the same america. its not the same america. its not even the same democratic party. >> here is the one thing, the retail politics of this is important. im a community organizer at heart. and i always will be. and you cant organize -- given that calendar. i love to see a small state -- id love to see a state where you can flood the zone. tens of million dollars of tv ads. but you also need to show up to that community center. you need to show up to these county fairs. ...

On the ground, especially since the early voting, as we just heard there, the early voting window was so much shorter for the runoff, and as weve been hearing anecdotally, for all these hiccups, if not outright problems in the way it has been run so far? >> yeah, theyve been all kinds of problems. we could talk for days about the connection between that and -- voter suppression bill. what we know is there really crafted that bill with surgical precision. its not a coincidence that weve been sett...

There would be no obama. lets just be clear, if there was not an iowa, hillary clinton -- wouldve been the democratic nominee in that year. in 2008. why? barack obama organized that, to your point, very white state. sometimes we take a state -- its right leaning. barack obama came out of nowhere. and again, this is not something that happened very often. but the way that this map, this calendar structure, you need to have a lot of money. you have to have a lot of money. >> let me just push back ...

Be front and center now that the legislator isnt democratic hands, with a democratic governor? >> of course. it is a goes back to the old adage, its the economy, stupid. it always. as michigan is the home of the great lakes, and the american automotive industry. were both. its about protecting clean water, its about transitioning into the future of manufacturing, electric vehicles, autonomous vehicles, doing more manufacturing at home. and making sure that these are good union jobs. that these a...