georgia voters are mortified than ever with the primaries just two days away, we ve got new numbers from georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger s office, and it shows early voting in the peak state surged ahead of tuesday s primaries. 2022 s total is up to 112% from 2020. and 2020 was a presidential election year, so that s pretty good. now let s look at the party lines, we ve got republicans who cast nearly 500,000 early ballots, while democrats cast just over 368,000. so, what insight can early voting numbers and the primaries actually tell us about how things will shake out in the general? i m so glad you asked, because we have nbc news correspondent ellison barber, on the ground in hot land to break it down, welcome ellison. okay, so nearly 900,000 people voted early in a primary, in a midterm here. what is happening and what can this mean for november? yeah, i, mean it s a really big deal for me when i look at those numbers and think, what does it mean as we mov
trey: good evening trey: good evening, i m trey gowdy, special edition of sunday night in america. less than one year, america will head to the poll to pick a president. sufficed to say, you have questions we will try to answer throughout the course of our time tonight, starting with rich from new jersey. hi, trey, rich muller, i see tim scott has just withdrawn from the race for president. i m disappointed by that, what made it where he doesn t have a chance? trey: to quote senator scott himself, the voters said not now, that doesn t mean not ever thchl is not a historical season where someone with tim scott s demeanor is going to flourish. politics right now want fame over substance, what they wear, see or say and not what they do or believe. cycle where anger and frustration have supplanted hope and optimism. gop primary voters want a different candidate from what tim offered. you asked what changed. i think a lot, political opponents are enemies, losing an election
say that if he s candidate claim they re pro-life, if they re pro-life, they would support medicaid expansion. we re gonna hear a lot of that as we move ahead, things are ramping up, simone. nbc s ellison barber, giving angelic vibes from live from atlanta, thank you so much. i want to bring in our political panel, we have democratic congressman and secondary vice chair of the congressional hispanic adriano espaillat of new york, immigration have an executive director sergio gonzales, and writer and large for the bulwark tim miller, welcome, welcome everyone. congressman, i actually want to start with you, you know the pulse, which you say should always be taken with a grain of salt they do show that republican incumbent georgia, brian kemp, running away with the primary over his trump endorsed opponent david perdue. alison just finished telling us all about the massive turnout that we re seeing there, what does this signal to you ahead of the midterm elections?