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Runoff elections all together. if you watched this network, you probably know there have been a bunch of runoffs in georgia, three of them all together, and secretary of state brad raffensperger says this puts an extra burden on election workers and campaigns and voters and he floated three options that could replace the runoff, rank choice voting, a lower threshold candidates would need to reach to avoid a runoff and pushing third party candidates off the ballot all together. let's bring in a political reporter from the atlanta journal-constitution and an msnbc political contributor. it is no...

I guess bit by bit in the last several years we haven't focused on it and it's the ground game. there's a lot of really good consultants that know what to do. i think they need a seat at the table. >> the duration of this runoff was closer to nine weeks, now it's four weeks. what does the future runoff elections in georgia -- do there need to be conversations about changing those and eliminating them, do you think? >> we wasn't to a four-week voting. we used to have only four-week runoffs for federal and state. for federal runoffs, they said you need to have four weeks. if we keep the runoff a...

It includes making sure that people can actually go to the doctor. he has been -- he's done a lot of legislative work in that area. and i think that you -- know we have to expand kind of the vision of what kind of moderate politics looks like. it looks a lot more progressive now. because people have really real economic needs. >> lawrence, can you talk a little bit about his prospects in the senate? not talking about electoral prospects, but his prospects as a senator? i mean obviously, one byproduct of the georgia runoff system, despite its troubling origins, is that a senator who wins a runo...

Ballot in the general election, but i should go out of this time and make sure my voice is heard. >> you have done a lot of reporting on the different in style between rafael warnock and herschel walker. yesterday, raphael walker was at an event and he said this about herschel walker, let's take a listen. >> now, i am not mad that he does not know what he is talking about, i am mad that he doesn't know what he's talking about and things he ought to be a united states senator. he is running for senate, he's not just her uncle talking at the family reunion! georgia deserve a senator who actually...

>> a focal sight ration estate, greer was determined to stop black georgians growing political power. quote, if you want to establish if i was racially prejudiced, i was. if you want to establish that some of my political activity was racially motivated, it was. quiver would say in a deposition years later. in 1963, one year after the supreme court struck down the counter unit system, gruver now back in office, proposed a new election system. the runoff. >> hoover explicitly talked about how even if the white votes were divided in the first election and a black bag the runoff, whites could com...