including the run for georgia primary tomorrow. ian bassin executive director of protective mockery, cnn profit election. he also serves as associate white house counsel to president barack obama, and they both join me now. amy, i wanna start with you. there s been so much focus on the kemp race, understandably. high profile, you know, you ve got vice president, former vice president pence pence today, stumping for kemp. there s been way less attention, to me in some ways it s a more significant rate, which is secretary of state race, precisely because in the gubernatorial race, you know, there is a whole bunch of policy issues at play, right? and the secretary of state race, like it s pretty clear that trump once highest brad raffensperger because he didn t steal the election. what the race look like from the perspective of a republican primary voters?
exactly, chris, it s not theoretical. the moccasin sanitize voters. young people, women, and the candidacy will do just that. as we get it very clear that the republican rhetoric around the regime and on the question anymore. abortion rights of always been secure or no deal but realizing that all it takes is a republican governor interval can mom unaided legislature any goes well over. pennsylvania s of a state to look at where they are now nominated a republican nominee who is for ending all abortion access in the state of pennsylvania. and this is where you look at independent voters and people who aren t motivated to go vote this november because of this issue. and i think those are the battleground states. suddenly, the thaw that your state will become a state where abortion is not available is beginning to sink and on voters. yeah, there s reporting about democratic party group spending 6 million low is. ha as seems to me this is as real is a gets. there will be a full abortio
georgia with so many patriots paving the way for historic republican victory, six months from now will win back the house, when darkness on a, and realize governor brian kemp for four more years in the state house. he doesn t always unlucky is going a politician cadence bit? mike pence down in georgia for incumbent governor brian kemp. any other situation, this would be on remarkable. except, mike pence s old boss donald trump is backing the challenger, former senator david perdue. governor kemp is a microbiologist on every issue except one, he had not given to trump when he put intense pressure on him to steal the 2020 election. that s why charleston dollars
what is the texture of that race as someone who s covered it? so, i agree with you that it s a more interesting race right now, because it does look like kemp is in very good shape, going into tomorrow s primary. whereas raffensperger and jody hice our according to the most recent boris neck and neck. and you know, that s actually remarkable given what we all thought a year ago, which was that he was sort of a dead man walking with a republican electorate, after having defied president trump. but, you know having spent a week in georgia, a couple of weeks ago, interviewing voters and others, i really came away thinking that even people who support trump, and would vote for him again, if he was on the ballot in 2024, are tired of the 2020 election grievance narrative. and want to move on and i think that both brad raffensperger