all incomprehensible, honestly. look, we re dealing with georgia. a state that has been unprecedented and it s voter suppression against african american voters and democratic voters. especially in the past few years with the grassroots mobilization that led barely to the victory of warnock, republicans are double down and said never again, they make it even harder for black voters and democratic voters to vote in georgia. if those voter suppression wasn t there, it wasn t such a curbing of voting roles, i think that league would be bigger. it has to be mentioned, especially in georgia, yasmin. it s the massive voter suppression effort by the gop to make sure that especially black voters don t come out to vote. i for one, i m not surprised. everything with republican voters, you could put a deadlifted with a maga hat on its head and run him against a competent, democrat, and you ll still get 40 to 53% in these red states. it s about power. people have been forthcoming
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and social challenges. he deeply understood that reforms were necessary and strove to find his own solutions to the problems that he faced. and so you can see to urgent problems. so you see that putin making that statement doesn t sound liabilitie like a ringing endorsement. he is somewhat of a controversial figure here in russia, he did have some issues with the policies of vladimir putin and also the curbing of freedoms here in russia. however one also has to say that he didn t support putin s annexation of crimea and other things going on in ukraine right now. but if you speak to ordinary russians, something i ve done over the years there, are many people who are highly critical of gorbachev who feel that their lives with are turned upside down and that russia was
changed politics. what happened in kansas with a traditionally conservative state had a massive democratic turnout that really nobody saw coming and has opened a lot of people s eyes. republicans are engaged too, though. there is a lot of issues they re fired up about as well. i don t think we should assume that republicans aren t going to turn out. it is a different turn-out model we re used to. and it isn t one issue. normally it is one or two issues driving it. it is clearly abortion and democracy are firing up the left. immigration and just a grievance against biden fires up the right. that s certainly there, too. but this is what s changed. i mean, it does seem like abortion did change everything. i think it did change everything. it is important to note that i m from nebraska. kansas is right down the road. republicans had to come out and vote to defeat that amendment. the reality is that rolling back roe, curbing a woman s ability