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The New York-based co-director of “All In: The Fight for Democracy,” a documentary made with Liz Garbus about Stacey Abrams and voting rights, traveled to Augusta, Atlanta, Eastman and Cuthbert to film get-out-the-vote commercials in anticipation of the state’s U.S. Senate runoff elections.
Through the advocacy group Black Voters Matter, she met and interviewed a grandmother in Augusta who took her grandson out to vote in November for the first time. Struck by their intergenerational story, she included them in a 60-second spot that also featured Black Voters Matter co-founder LaTosha Brown.
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WASHINGTON As with so many other events during the year preceding it, the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden will be a ceremony unlike those of his predecessors.
Tempering the celebratory tone is a directive from Biden’s inaugural team for supporters to refrain from traveling to D.C. for the Jan. 20 swearing-in. Instead, they’ve urged Americans to participate in the inaugural activities from home.
It’s not yet clear what exactly those virtual festivities will include or if President Donald Trump will attend Biden’s swearing-in. But the event will be scaled down in size, with an emphasis on safety precautions.
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Mark J. Terrill
Let’s just say it’s hard to believe that somehow Joe Biden, who was never able to get any real numbers out for any rally, who barely squeaked by in the primary, could have not only gotten more votes than Barack Obama and Donald Trump, but the most in history. For a barely coherent uninspiring stand-in candidate.
It’s one of the many reasons that make Republicans doubt the reported results of the election.
So now, as Joe Biden says he’s getting ready for his inauguration, he is canceling traditional inaugural events and counseling “supporters” to stay home, to not come to Washington, D.C. on that day, blaming the Wuhan coronavirus.