of us. and our side has to be up, not agonizing, but organizing to make sure that we battle on every single state and every single district to make sure that they cannot, in fact, implement a plan of voter suppression as hard as they try. all right. senator ed markey, thank you for making some time tonight. joining me now political reporter alex izenstat, co-wrote the scoop on and mariner perez. and alex, let me start with you, adelson has been the single biggest donor. what s the thinking behind the latest set of checks he s writing? republicans are facing a brutal midterm environment and they re turning to sheldon adelson and making him their white knight in this case because democrats have had a lot of money they re spending in these races and they re going back to sheldon adelson for
that is tremendous amount of access. he has a lot of access to the president of the united states. he speaks frequently with jared kushner. so he s getting a lot of bang for his buck at this point. alex, i want to turn to mirna for this other prong of this approach. you ve got the donor class and they re writing the big checks and then the voter suppression fights. georgia right now, there s a lawsuit being filed about these 53,000 upheld registrations. what s going on in georgia right now? there s a number of things going on in georgia and georgia voters are getting a raw deal. first, georgia has been purging at a humongous rate that s been increasing after the shelby county decision which used to put some restrictions on what georgia could do that would make minority voters worse off. shelby county, another 5-4 decision by the supreme court with the same five who voted for citizens united, a theme there. we produced recent analysis that showed about one out of ten persons reg
right. this is a drop in the bucket for sheldon adelson. he typically gives in election cycles around $100 million. what he gets in exchange for that is tremendous amount of access. he has a lot of access to the president of the united states. he speaks frequently with jared kushner. so he s getting a lot of bang for his buck at this point. alex, i want to turn to mirna for this other prong of this approach. you ve got the donor class and they re writing the big checks and then the voter suppression fights. georgia right now, there s a lawsuit being filed about these 53,000 upheld registrations. what s going on in georgia right now? there s a number of things going on in georgia and georgia voters are getting a raw deal. first, georgia has been purging at a humongous rate that s been increasing after the shelby county decision which used to put some restrictions on what georgia could do that would make
day. and that s why we have to be totally on alert this year because we have got victory right now that is right in front of us. and our side has to be up, not agonizing, but organizing to make sure that we battle on every single state and every single district to make sure that they cannot, in fact, implement a plan of voter suppression as hard as they try. all right. senator ed markey, thank you for making some time tonight. joining me now political reporter alex izenstat, co-wrote the scoop on and mariner perez. and alex, let me start with you, adelson has been the single biggest donor. what s the thinking behind the latest set of checks he s writing? republicans are facing a brutal midterm environment and they re turning to sheldon adelson and making him their white knight in this case