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That is tonights the last word. The 11th hour with Stephanie Ruhle starts now. Tonight, new polling shows an extremely close president ial race as both candidates hit the campaign trail. What the numbers are telling us about voters less than seven weeks out. Plus the republican nominee for governor in North Carolina vows to continue their campaign after new bombshell reporting. Then georgias top Election Official is calling out the State Election Board over changes that could cause chaos as The 11th Hour gets underway on this wednesday night. Good evening once again. I am Stephanie Ruhle, live from Los Angeles and we are 47 days away from election day. This evening we are going to talk about polls, so lets remember, polls are not predictive and they are not perfect. They are far from perfect, but they are a snapshot of where things stand in the current moment and they can show us where the trends are moving. Today we got a wave of new polls, nationally and in key Battleground States where the whole thing is decided and they show that while harris and democrats are in the strongest Position Theyve been in all year, this race is still incredibly close. In fact nearly all the results are within the margin of error. It does appear the last Weeks Debate helped the Vice President , but not enough to break away from trump. New polls that focus on the state of pennsylvania, where it really, really matters, show that the race is still extremely close. Tonight the Vice President was in detroit, michigan for a live streamed Town Hall Event with oprah. The event felt a lot like an episode of a talkshow. The two talked with voters about the border, Reproductive Rights and Harriss Plan for the economy and that is where she snuck in a reference to last Weeks Debate. Part of my plan is to give startup Small Businesses a 50,000 Tax Deduction to start up a Small Business. I know it is 5000. Nobody can start with 5000, so that is part of my plan. That is a tiny business. It is a concept of a business, right . You know where i am going. A concept of a business. Meanwhile Donald Trump was in washington tonight, speaking at a Fighting Antisemitism Event at a summit of the Israeli American Council and at both Events Trump said if he loses in november, jewish voters will have a lot to do with it. And an absolutely shocking story tonight. I got on a plane and my phone blew up and i still cant believe it. A Man Trump once called better than Martin Luther King. Cnn is reporting current North Carolina Lieutenant Governor Mark robinson, now running to be governor in that state, once referred to himself as a black nazi and expressed support for bringing black bringing back slavery. Robinson denied the report and vowed to stay in the race. My colleague Laura Jarrett has all of the details. Reporter tonight, republican candidate Mark Robinson vowing to stay in the race for governor in North Carolina, vehemently denying the report showing dozens of disturbing comments online. They want to focus on salacious tabloid lies. We are not going to let them do that. We are staying in this race. Reporter the Lieutenant Governor facing a swirl of speculation about the fate of his campaign after Cnn Today published what it called a series of inflammatory comments on a Pornography Website Message board more than a decade ago, before robinson began his political career. Nbc news has not verify the authenticity of the post. Cnn says it includes robinson referring to himself as a black nazi and expressing support for slavery. Writing, slavery is not bad. Some people need to be slaves. I wish they would bring it back. I would certainly buy a few. Cnn also reporting robinson, who publicly supports a six Week Ban on abortion with exceptions, wrote that he did not care if a celebrity got an abortion. Writing, quote, i dont care, i just want to see the sex tape. Cnn says the comments were all made under the same Username And Robinson used it elsewhere on the internet including Product Reviews on amazon, but Tonight Robinson blasting it as tabloid trash. Let me reassure you the things you will see in that story, those are not the words of Mark Robinson. You know my words. You know my character and you know i have been completely transparent in this race. Reporter no stranger to polarizing comments, robinson has come under scrutiny in the past for calling the holocaust hogwash, which he later said was a poorly worded remark that was not antisemitic. Come november i plan on being the first black governor of North Carolina. Reporter he is a social conservative who has been endorsed by former president trump. This is Martin Luther King on steroids, okay . Reporter North Carolina, a battleground state, but a tough one for democrats who have not won it since 2008. The deadline for robinson to drop out of the race is midnight tonight. Im going to take a guess, he is probably staying. All right, lets bring in our leadoff panel. It is time to get smarter. Larry is here because we are talking polling. Director at the center for politics. Evan mcmorris dont joins us and mckay coppins, Staff Writer at the atlantic. Larry, when we saw these polls, you are the first person we wanted to talk to, so break it down for us. Big picture what is your take away . I think larry is frozen, so we are going to wait a second. Evan, what was your take . I dont want to step in for larry when it comes to polls, but when he is unfrozen it will be amazing. I will say this. You mentioned at the top of the show that polls are a snapshot and you should not take a prediction from them, but from a narrative perspective, all of these polls are coming out. You would rather be harris than trump, looking at these polls and that is good for her, obviously. We dont know what it means in the long run, but talking this debate being a huge Game Changer for the election, i think it pushed harasses momentum further and away from trump. It speaks to all of the good news she has had since she found herself with the nomination after president biden dropped out. A series of successes for her and these polls help solidify the fact that she is doing so well in this weird environment that she found herself in. Here is what stuck out to me. One poll found that voters do think harris performed better in the debate, but in the postdebate polling it has not really moved the needle. What does that say about voters . Could there really be a lot of undecided voters left, if a whole bunch watched that debate and still did not really move . Come on, there was a clear, decisive winner. I think there is a difference for a lot of voters between acknowledging that one candidate performed better than another and thinking they would rather that person be president. I do think, though, to evans point, when you look at these polls you have to look at where they are going directionally and harris is creeping up. She is not creeping up in the polls far enough that she is getting outside the margin of error. She is not running away with it. I think we might be past the era of president ial politics where either candidate can never have a 60 landslide or win 48 states. I think we are an incredibly polarized country. No candidate is ever going to win by more than a few points. I will say that what i found most interesting was not actually the polls that are showing her creeping up in these various states, but actually polls that ask voters who they think will win. Washington post had a good piece on this, breaking down this question of which candidate do you think is going to win . Harris, in almost every poll, wins by a much larger margin. 10, 11, 12 points. Most people seem to think that harris is going to win and if you look back at president ial elections over the past 60 years, that is a more predictive question than asking people who they want to win, who they want to vote for. There are a bunch of theories about this, but one of the theories is basically when voters are asking that question they are not just taking into account their own preferences. They are taking into account the preferences of people they know in their circles. Their neighbors, their family. They become sort of mini anthropologists and that has proven predictive. If you want to look at good news for harris, the fact that significant majorities outside the margin of error think she will win, that does bode well for her campaign. Now that is interesting and larry, unfortunately for you, you were frozen. You are our polling expert, but i had to ask these guys and they gave great responses, so the bar just got higher. What were your takeaways . Well i could not hear what they said for the most part. Brilliant stuff. Im sorry i was frozen, but i was shocked by the report you gave about Mark Robinson. I just couldnt move and i hope thats okay. Look, as far as polling is concerned, i think people need to remember at all times that all Polling Today can do with all of its flaws and inaccuracies is to tell you that Candidate A is ahead or Candidate B is ahead or that it is so close you really cant tell which candidate is ahead or the polls arent predicting. I go with the third option, certainly in this case. Now having said that, which candidate has moved up and which candidate moved down . Obviously Kamala Harris moved up and Donald Trump moved down. The problem is the national vote doesnt matter at all and we have 43 states sitting there watching the seven states that will impose a new president on the rest of us for the next four years and those states happen to be, with only a couple of exceptions, so close that they are literally tied or certainly within the margin of error and by the way, good research suggests that the margin of error is actually about double what the pollsters list, because there are so many sources of error that cannot be quantified. So we will be much better off when we all realize that polls are not votes and we should not pay much attention to them and those in politics who care about the results should be working and volunteering and giving money. How about that . I will take that. That is a good education for all of us out there. Democrats are in the best Spot Theyve been in all year and at the same time this thing is razor thin. Which of those points matters more . That is the 64 Million question of this election. This whole thing comes down to what is actually going to happen at The End of this race . We have a candidate in Donald Trump that we have seen unite the Republican Party in a way he had not done before. You see this idea of harris, relatively unknown, comes in late in the game, but pumps all this enthusiasm on the democratic side and those two things are competing with Each Other right now. It may come down to the nitty gritty stuff like Ground Game operations. We did some stories about that the other day talking about ground operations. This is a fight to The End and whoever has the most best stuff i guess, that is how it is going to work out i think. The most best stuff, that is right there. A political columnist writes that there are three states that matter, just three states. Georgia, North Carolina and pennsylvania. A, do you agree and b, do you think this race could be one without pennsylvania . Number one, i do not agree and number two, i believe that it can be one under certain circumstances without pennsylvania. We just said 43 States Arent in this thing. There are only seven and i respect jonathan martin. He is an old friend. It is great what he wrote and i see his point, but dont you think it would make more sense if we didnt narrow down the near seven states we have that are truly competitive to three . Because i can see other pathways really for either candidate to win 270 electoral votes and i think the candidates can see that, too, and their strategists can see that. Pennsylvania is important and North Carolinas important in georgia is important, but so are wisconsin and michigan and nevada and arizona. So we look at different combinations of these states and lets keep doing that. Lets keep the door open to new events and new calculations. At the risk of larry going frozen again, lets talk about Mark Robinson. North Carolina Lieutenant governor in this new cnn report. He is denying that he called Himself A Black Nazi on a Pornography Website and he is vowing to stay in this race. Heres my question. There is all this pressure, should he step down, should he step aside . Lets be real. With Donald Trump as the leader of the Republican Party, the person who sets the bar, do you see any scenario where a republican will step down for any reason . This is the key point, right . When you have the leader of your party who has said outrageous, offensive, racist, xenophobic, antisemitic things allies constantly, who has been caught in affairs and all kinds of unseemly, unsavory personal behavior and who has basically weathered it, at least in terms of, you know, his standing in the Republican Party. You dont set any kind of Incentive Structure that would cause somebody like Mark Robinson to say i dont think i can survive this, i will drop out. Now look at is possible that the party in the state could do what the democratic party essentially did to Joe Biden, which is, you know, pressure mounts, donors pullout. The problem is that that is so soon, like you noted, that there is probably not enough time. Come on. Come on. Who are the republicans in the party that they will put the pressure on . Give me a break. Marjorie Taylor Greene . Matt gaetz . Who is going to pressure him . The interesting thing is that in the North Carolina Republican Party, the establishment hates this guy. The rest of the republicans in the state dont like him. The problem is that he is not beholden to them at all. He is following the Trump Path where he doesnt need the republican establishment in North Carolina to continue to run his campaign. You know he fancies himself as antiestablishment, outsider, populist. That is how he positioned himself. There is really not a lot of leverage that the State Party has to get him off the ticket, but to your point they are probably also not going to try very hard. You have the Donald Trump precedent. I will say im not really sure that Mark Robinson should bank on being able to do the Teflon Don thing that trump has pulled off. Weve seen this over and over again. A lot of republican politicians seem to think they can do what trump has done. That they can weather the storms and stick around, that the laws of political gravity dont apply to them and then they find out they do. Im not sure he should be making that calculation himself. Ron desantis, you know what he learned . Only trump can trump. Quickly before we go if robinson stays on the ballot how do you see the Governors Race and could it have an impact on the president ial race in North Carolina . Absolutely. I just got back from North Carolina, mid day. The people i talked to yesterday, before this new story broke, were unanimous in saying that robinson was going to lose and most of them said he will lose badly. This is before this story. Unless you believe that there is something in that story that makes him more attractive as a candidate for governor, i think you can pretty much count on the democratic candidate, josh stein, winning the race. The question is whether he brings down Donald Trump in a state that arguably trump has to win or nearly has to win in order to get to 270. I think hes going to hurt trump. He is hurting trump because rarely, but occasionally, there is something called reverse coattails. It is when a candidate lower on the ballot and the governor is right below president , becomes so radioactive that it affects candidates below the radioactive candidate on the ballot, but it also affects the Candidate Above. That Candidate Also suffers from Radiation Poisoning to a certain degree. Well i think we have reached it and there are a number of similarities, as the others have pointed out, between robinsons problems and trumps problems. So they link together and they could discourage some republican voters from casting a ballot. They just dont want to show up, they dont want to get involved. They are turned off by what they have read, at least the parts they believe. So the answer is yes, at least in my view. Larry, when you are talking radioactive, i get that it is rare. But when you have black nazi, pornography, all in this one man story, that could be radioactive. Thank you for starting us off this evening. When we return, shares of Donald Trumps Media Stock fell to a new low on the same day Donald Trump is finally able to sell. The former president still stands to make a whole lot of money for doing absolutely nothing at a company that absolutely also does basically nothing and when we return, some voters want to know more about Kamala Harris after last Weeks Debate. We will talk about the elusive, undecided voters. Who in the world they are, where exactly did they live and what these candidates need to do to win them over. The 11th hour just getting underway on a hot Thursday Night in l. A. i wish i had someone like evan when i started. Somebody just got their first Debit Card Ice cream on you . Ooo, tacos i got you. Wait hold on, dont you owe me money . What . your money is a part of your community, so your bank should be too. Like, Chase Everybody wants super straight, super white teeth. They want that hollywood white smile. New sensodyne clinical white provides 2 shades whiter teeth and 24 7 sensitivity protection. I think its a great product. Its going to help a lot of patients. He told us who he was. 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Despite the slide, Donald Trump stake in the company is still worth 2 Billion and keep in mind, the markets were hitting new highs today, but certainly not for djt. Last week he said he has no plans of cashing out, so lets discuss this and more. I bring in justin, professor of Public Policy at the university of michigan. And Contributing Editor at the financial times. This company virtually does nothing and even though the stock is down 81 , Donald Trump stake is still worth 2 Billion. Even if it goes lower than this, he stands to make hundreds of millions. He is claiming he is not going to sell. Do you buy it . I dont buy it at all, but here is what is crazy about this company. It is a publicly listed company which means they have to produce documents for the s. E. C. And they Cant Fly in those documents, so you have a way to see what is going on inside Donald Trumps company. I am looking at the quarterly filing. I want to get this right. They had 836,000 in revenue. Thousand dollars in revenue the last quarter. Those are drycleaner numbers. This is not a real company, they dont do anything. That gets me to my exact next question. They dont do anything, so i want to talk, justin, for a moment about the kind of people who by Donald Trump stock and the parallel with his new business venture, a cryptocurrency exchange. Whether it is crypto or djt, one group are hardcore fans, his base who are the angry voters who connected with him from the beginning and these are people who spend disposable income buying a piece of Donald Trump. Guys about at Day One 1000 worth of stock that is now worth 200. They are losing their shirts supporting this guy and the same kind will buy into this exchange, get involved in the Crypto Business and they will lose again, but the group that is more concerning are the professional investors. There are bigmoney investors who bought his stock because they want to curry favors with him and on the Crypto Side you have some of the most sophisticated people in crypto donating huge money to his campaign because they want control over who the new s. E. C. Chair is and want to make sure regulations are in their favor. So can we look at these Business Ventures and view that as a snapshot into Donald Trumps campaign . He has a hardcore, angry, disaffected base that he fires up, who lose all their money In The Name of him and really rich people that buyin so they can get what they want out of a transactional guy. Is that how you see it . To defend capitalism, to suggest a this is a fair system. Because you didnt quite frame it right for me there, mate. I think it is really interesting here, which is we know what a political campaign looks like. Young people, very excited with any campaign who work in tell 3 00 a and because they really want to get the candidate elected and these guys are out playing golf or launching a new company with his son, barron trump, the director of decentralized financial Innovation And Someone somewhere is valuing the whole thing at hundreds of millions or perhaps billions of dollars. This is someone who is selling his name. Thats all right, he used to sell his name before he was president , but now he is selling the name, president trump. This is crony capitalism. He has been unashamed about it since Day One and the american people have stood by and watched. But justin, it is so dangerous he is just selling trump eyes, trump vodka. It is a silly business and the people who buy it, they lose. But when he gets involved in something like cryptocurrency in a significant way and he is going to choose who the s. E. C. Chair is, that will have a massive, dangerous impact and as long as were talking about capitalism, i want to share something the former president said just last night. Watch this. We are going to put a temporary cap on Credit Card Interest rates. We will cap it at around 10 . We cant let them make 25 and 30 . I dont know if i heard that right. Price caps, putting Price Caps on companies . Last i checked that is not how a free Market Enthusiast or any republican ever looked at capitalism. Brendan. Also this is such a random promise thrown out at the last minute. This is like if you get broken up with that is when you start making up new things. I could make dinner more often. I could do that, too. This is something he made up off the top of his head. There is a problem with Credit Card rates. They dont follow the fed up and down like they used to, so there is a challenge figuring out how to get these rates down. They are 21 , but the challenges there have been bills floated in congress that dont go anywhere trying to cap it at 12 , at 15 . There is absolutely no appetite for this bill whatsoever, so for him to say that, it is a profoundly empty promise, emptier than normal for him. It is beyond disingenuous. There is not a single republican who would vote for that. Justin, what is your take when you hear that . Your in michigan, a state that has a ton of people that support Donald Trump. When he is making offers like this are they saying yes, i hear him. Hes going to deliver for me. The same way he said two days ago im going to cut Car Insurance prices 50 . When there is something they are hearing that they like and they are probably not talking to brendan and i. They want the candidate who is not doing that. You know, he is not following normal processes and maybe that is half the point. The latest one was no tax on overtime. Another one that he came up with on the fly, probably cost about 2 trillion. Have to tell you right now that the day they implement that i will go to my boss and say i will take every second week off, but i will work 80 hours every other weekend than half my salary will be overtime. Half of my salary is taxfree. I love this. Im just glad im not the federal treasury who has to keep collecting money. The first thing you learn when you learn about Tax Policy is we cant tie Tax Policy to ours because ours is the easiest thing to lie about. This is something that any Policy Wonk would laugh you out of the room on Day One. Add in michigan, here in michigan, thinking about this, it is how folks in the media are when something is so disingenuous, so insincere, so moronic. You report on it seriously and you are and i bless you for that, stephanie, or do you ignore nonsense because it is nonsense . That is a choice others are making instead. I dont know how you solve that. No, you seriously call it out because at The End of the day the person running for office might exaggerate. Might glorify something to make themselves look better. We get that, that is how politicians roll, but what Donald Trump is doing especially in the past two weeks is throwing out Policy Idea after Policy Idea that is a flat out drive it does not align with republican principles. There is no way it will ever get past and so it is ridiculous to stand in front of voters and say im going to do this for you when not only does he not intend to do it, technically and half of these things he does not even have the power to and it is our job not to criticize him, but to call it out, because we are not here to satisfy him, we are here to help viewers try to get better and smarter as they get ready for the election. And luckily, boys, you helped us do that tonight. Thank you for being here. 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This whole, i need to know more about her, Kamala Harris is not running for perfect. She is running against Donald Trump. What is it that people dont know about her when they know every possible thing there is to know about Donald Trump and still is not sure . It is the right question but i think at this point people want to make sure to answer any questions they might have about her. I think it is incumbent upon her to keep doing these interviews because we know interviews, town halls, rallies, we know the more people learn about her, the more they like her. The more they hear from Donald Trump, the less they like him. Which i think is perfect because whenever Donald Trump is backed into a corner the immediate strategy he reverts to his get me in front of as many people as possible and when he does that he says stuff like you did at the national association of black journalists, which is that kamala is not black. He said his Crowd Size is bigger than Martin Luther King jr. s i have a dream speech crowd. He was talking about how much the crowd loved him at the debate. Reality check, there was no audience. Can we talk about undecided voters . Help me because in my mind when i close my eyes i cannot picture who this person is who is an engaged voter that has a notebook in their house like trump did this, she did that. Who are these undecided voters . They fall into two categories. People who are not going to vote and people who dont like to tell pollsters they dont intend to vote and when they do so they get kicked out of polls or they are going to be harris voters. Trump has his vote. They know that. No one here is thinking am i going to vote for Donald Trump . The question is he is not in the persuasion business, he has an eternal business and if you look at socalled undecided voters, they usually break by favorable and unfavorable which makes sense, because will you show up to vote for a candidate you have an unfavorable opinion of . You would stay at home, or vote for someone else on the ballot. So i think these polls are misleading neutral to negative for harris, when in fact the structure of the polls are much better. Like what she is getting with African American voters. 78 or so in the times poll. Thats not going to happen. Shes going to get 91 . Trump got 8 . One point every 56 years. Its not going to change this year. I think that is 11 of the polls, so i think they are actually better news for harris than for trump and i think the Trump Campaign understands this, which is why they are sort of flailing or panicked. Are Swing Voters more significant in this election because you have all of those Nikki Haley voters. She has endorsed Donald Trump, but is not out campaigning for him. Laura loomer is. You know who Laura Loomer will not help trump get . Swing voters. I think most of the daily vote was a nontrump vote and that is up for grabs. They will not vote or they will vote for harris. When you would like to know more about somebody. If you get asked that question would you say no, i know everything i need to know. It is an odd question. Of course you say i would like to know more. If it was a Baking Show and they go would you like to know more about the recipe, who is going to say no . I think it is surprising that that Number Isnt higher. That is very interesting. When you look at the people Donald Trump is surrounding himself with. Things he is saying, whether it is eating dogs and cats, Sarah Huckabee sanders on being a stepparent. They have their base is fired up as they will get and so does Kamala Harris. If the answer is you need to win undecided voters, how is the current republican strategy doing any of that . It is not. The fact is anything Donald Trump says and all of the people he is surrounding himself with are just doubling and tripling down on people who are already trumpvance, but in his mind he is so focused on the instant gratification of getting adulation from his fans, from his audience. The low hanging fruit. Throwing Red Meat out to his base because he knows he will get Affection And Applause from them immediately. That is too much of a draw for him to reject in service of reaching out to those Nikki Haley voters, people he needs to be reaching out to if he wants any hope of actually winning this election. You just alluded to the fact that the only way forward for him is actually expanding his coalition by surrounding himself with Laura Loomer and making Marjorie Taylor Greene the face of the Republican Party and j. D. Vance, which was basically a clone of Donald Trump himself. There was no reaching out to independents. No reaching out to people of a different nationality or religion. Even getting somebody from Battleground States. All of these choices are just to basically double down because he only knows how to reach out to the exact people who already support him. Isnt that colossally stupid . I love even just thinking about this. Pete buttigieg is performing the role of j. D. Vance in the Debate Prep for tim walz. What you think of that and how important is this debate . I think the debate is really important and i think that is a great choice. I am a believer in mock debates. I think you are always better if you have someone who really took playing that person seriously and buttigieg is unbelievably smart and he will be a better j. D. Vance than j. D. Vance, which is what you want. It is like an athlete. You want to walk out and feel like i practiced against guys that are better than the team i am playing. I think the debate is going to count because it will be one of the last times to reset what is happening in the Trump Campaign and the Trump Campaign doesnt know how to reach out and trump really doesnt want to reach out, because trumps feeling as if you are not for him you are a bad person. There is something wrong for you, not something wrong with my candidacy or me and when you look at the world that way becomes very narrow and he has never been able to get over 47 . Half the country, 53 , non tran32. That is why at The End of the day, relatively speaking i dont think this race is going to be that close. I dont think it will be as close. Someone said, it is not republicans, it is maga and that is maybe not enough to win. Gentlemen we will leave it there. 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He has taken over the board with three people on the board. To sabotage the election. Ultimately, you can have a local Election Official to say they are not really satisfied with the election and they will delay the process of certification. Those Election Officials that have run elections are saying no, not to do that. When you look at what is really interesting, if these pass on tomorrow, to push forward, they dont come in effect until the day after early voting starts in the State Of Georgia and 22 days before november 5th. Okay, so, just slow this down for me. So essentially, that Phone Call Donald Trump made to find 11,000 votes and they told him to pounce off, this time around, the people he would be calling and relying onto find those fictional 11,000 votes would potentially be willing to comply . Et gets worse than that. What we may look at is not even certifying the votes that are cast. Part of the rules in place in the State Of Georgia to protect the integrity of the election. To actually make sure that the public does not trust the election results. So lets say that there is a landslide. Lets say that Vice President Kamala Harris wins the State Of Georgia. Now you are bringing in this air of suspicion to do exactly what trump wanted to happen last time. That those results are considered that they are not legitimate. That is the core problem. Vp harris is headed to georgia tomorrow to speak about abortion rights and we spent a lot of time over the last week talking about this story. About the two women who died after being denied reproductive care. How much is this issue going to motivate voters in georgia . I think women in particular, particularly young women, All The Young Women i have been talking to feel very deeply about this particular issue. What is really interesting about this report is that ultimately, this was unnecessary. It was completely preventable. Had we not had the Abortion Ban in the State Of Georgia that was completely preventable. There was a call that they have been organizing over 300 young women. Women from all over the state joined that call that they are very frustrated and angry and they are planning actions. In the state to actually address this. This is something that we are saying georgia is ground zero. Now, the irony around it is georgia is also a state that has one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the country. You have a state that does not have good Health Care options for women who are having children. This is a state that actually literally taken away the Reproductive Rights. But this is also a state that they are placing in the State Of Georgia. Not an obgyn for almost 100 miles. So this is a really big problem in the state. Thank you for joining us tonight. Thank you for educating us. Really important stuff. Well be right back. Ilymporta well be right back. The jennif. Jen x. Jen y. And Jen Z. 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