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re-election. he needs these districts, he needs michigan in order to win in 2020 and he s actually going to be here in the state on wednesday to try to shore up support here. so there s an eternity between now and the election but impeachment is hot and heavy here. when i ask people what sort of outcome it s going to have next november, they say we just don t know, we just have to wait and see. elissa slotkin is hoping that it obviously falls in her favor. leanne, thank you very much. still ahead, impeachment, acquittal and 2020. what will donald trump do next if he faces no consequences in the senate. mp do next if he faces no consequences in the senate
a manageable number, and while that has led to a debate later this week where six out of the seven candidates are white, perez said to me that it s not really his fault that candidates like cory booker and julian castro haven t demonstrated more than scant amount of support in the public polling. joel, what do you think? i think reed s reporting is right and reflective of the challenge that the chairman has. look, this is difficult. this is not about the party trying to force a candidate or a number of candidates on the electoral. it s about what the electorate is telling you both in terms of fundraising, also support. you look at a state like south carolina which is really controlled by the african-american vote. cory booker is barely registering. kamala harris was really struggling to level off there before she exited the field. i d also say at one point in this race kamala harris was leading the race and she had about the most money in the field. so i don t know if it s a
almost nonexistent or very, very minuscule voter fraud is outweighing what is, again, a constitutional right to vote. so do you need to go to court to keep polling places open? what s what s the horizon on that? you know, let s see let s let from 2013, when there was a stripping of the voting rights act when section 5 was pulled out. these are the states, georgia, is a deep-south state that has a horrendous history of really preventing the voting rights, particularly of black voters. and so when we re looking at this, there is a racial element behind this that is targeting, particularly, disproportionately, black voters and voters of color. and so what we know is that the further that there is a polling site, it s less likely that people will vote because there s a transportation issue in this state. so when we ultimately are looking at what is happening, what we ve got to do is really address this voter suppression issue, not as if it s a partisan issue, but that it is a democ
rolls between 2012 and 2018. allegations of voter suppression are nothing new in georgia. but a new analysis from the atlanta journal constitution found that the state is particularly good at making it hard to vote, especially for black voters. joining me now, the co-founder of black voters matter fund, la tasha brown. latasha, always good to see you. i do want to note at the very top that voter purge law was instituted in the late 90s by a democratic administration down there in georgia. but and this is a big but what we ve seen in georgia in the last few years are a number of poll places closing. a number of polling sites closing. and and people who might ve had to walk down the street to vote or go a mile away to vote, are now finding themselves ten miles or more away from a voting booth. and what they found in the atlanta journal constitution was that that affected black voters 20% more or a lot more than white voters.
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