MSNBC All In With Chris Hayes November 14, 2020 01:34:15 archive.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from archive.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
well. why do they do well? low turnout. why do we do well in presidential? high turnout where base comes out. so there is a story here that s really interesting with these levels, these potential presidential levels that i think benefits democrats, and also, the reason why we have voter suppression, the reason why republicans make it so hard is because of things like early voting, right? that s what i want to talk about. you have counties like jefferson county. a good friend of mine from georgia who is an elected official down there, we ve been texting back and forth about that race. she has been making the point, look, don t be too lulled into a false sense of security by those numbers. you have huge numbers in the black belt, in some cases 200 plus percent increases which triggers the backlash on the other side. remember you, have you a black woman trying to run for governor of georgia you. be real. the race in terms of the voter suppression, but also in terms of the backlash the o
we can only tell you so much. meanwhile, in georgia, the rachel maddow show has been tracking the early turnout numbers all week, and with that red hot governor s race between stacey abrams and secretary of state brian kemp. so here is the georgia early vote and how it s look over the past four days. more than 70,000 on monday. more than 76,000 on tuesday. nearly 77,000 on wednesday. and nearly 79,000 yesterday. each of those days the turnout is roughly triple what it was in the corresponding date four years earlier. and what we re hearing is that turnout is high across the board in blue georgia counties and in red georgia counties. we can see enthusiasm, but is it possible to see anything more? joining us now is karine jean-pierre for moveon.org and always gad to see you. when you look at those georgia numbers, they are big. yeah, yeah. they re close to presidential year big.
yep. but does it tell you anything about whose up? so in those numbers in georgia, they said it s up in african american voters. you see an uptick for sure in early voting in african american voters. so i think that s a good sign for democrats, absolutely. and i think, joy, we have to there is a history here too. not too long ago in post 2016 after president trump won his election, we saw voting turnout increase in special elections, in new jersey and virginia elections. and it stayed steady. right. and so that is what i m looking at, right. we see the generic polling. we see the enthusiasm, we see the numbers of fundraising. so this is what it s doing is telling us a story. it s continuing that story of what we ve been seeing for the last two years. so i think it s promising. i think we still need to go out and early vote and not sit on our laurels. and also, let s not forget. in midterms, republicans do
been contacted by a political party and asked to register, only 45% of latinos reported they ve been contacted. is this partly because in the democratic party, this sort of focus on voter registration has not been as strong as the focus on as you said getting out high frequency voters. that s exactly right. we have to change the model. you see the majority of how people invest in the democratic party is often identifying where is there a union strong hold. the union strong hold is in the midwest. the opportunity, the marketplace. the new opportunity for voters is all in the south. you have jobs going to the south and technology industry. a lot of young professionals moving to the south. i m talking about georgia, north carolina, florida, texas, arizona, and that is how you have to reimagine how you look at the political map. we re literally experiencing a huge shift in that map. and we haven t modernized fast enough, i think that right now