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Would love to take away from the democrats, matt. this is going to be a critical state that republicans feel that they can flip. talk about the implications. this race is huge. absolutely. this is one of the most closely-watched senate races in the country, no question about it, in a state that was the closest in the 2020 election. republicans really feel, in their candidate and charisma around walker, they ll be able to flip entire control of the upper chamber which has massive implications for president joe biden s agenda going forward, judges, the future of more democratic policy through budget reconciliation. all of that hinges on a handful of states, georgia being one of them. let me ask you about one of the if you want to call it a policy issue, abortion. his abortion stance at odds with what polls tell us voters in ....
Primary day. i want to start with two reporters here with me deeply engrained in georgia politics right now. patricia murphy, an atlanta journal constitution political reporter. she was at last night s kemp/pence event. and matt brown who has been zeroing in on the purdue candidacy, watching his event last night. great to see both of you. matt, let me start with the way your newspaper put it this morning. trump has signaled that he believes the key to a potential run for president is 2024, is showing he can still shape the gop. how do you read today s primary, particularly as a test of trump s endorsement power? absolutely. what we re seeing in the governor s race so far is basically trump put all his energy into what has been dubbed by a lot of republican governors around the country as a bit of a vin debt that tour against ....
For people to vote all across the vote, not restricting people s rights. it s 2022. people deserve to be heard at the ballot box. we played by the rules and then we changed the rules. we re going to continue to organize and make sure people s voices are heard. herschel walker is taking questions from ellison right now. let s listen in. when they stay together on the republican side, they seem to be fighting all the time. that s not what i m about. i m about helping the people. you can t help them if you re separated. obviously donald trump is someone you admire and greatly respect. i understand you ll get behind with whoever wins in the republican party. you look at the goob torl race, the secretary of state race, the presence of donald trump has loomed large there. do you think you ll be able to work with brian kemp? there s no doubt. we ll work with anyone on the republican side. president trump is going to want the same thing to happen to this state and to this country. he w ....
Joe highs who fully embraced trump s false claims and objected to georgia s electoral votes being counted for biden. an office that would be responsible for certifying election results in a state incredibly rushl in in 2020, th implications of today s primary will tell us what we need to know about any close race here in 2024. joining me now, darren johnson, southern regional director for the obama campaign and a democratic strategist and doug richards, a reporter in atlanta. let s just say, there s a rematch between biden and trump in 2024, or a republican who believes the big lie. can you overstate the importance of what happens in the secretary of state race here? the secretary of state race here in georgia is one to watch. while the governor s race is ....
okay. we thought we were going to have an interview there. doesn t seem to have materialized. so let s go back we were following that race. let s go back to the voting laws. that 2021 law we said was signed obviously by brian kemp also changed you mentioned the way people decided to vote. are you going to vote absentee? are you going to vote early? for some people it s a different kind of calculation. yes, the legislature did impact absentee voting in a way that made it more difficult. early voting was made a little easier by that voting law, at least in terms in a lot of the rural counties. it restricted a little bit in the urban counties. ab sen see voting became problematic because you couldn t ....