former president of the united states, loss in the greatest state of georgia by the margin of 12,000 votes. so george s america s newest swing state. if it s america s newer battleground state, then these 0.001 5% margins are absolutely matter. and in conveniently saying, a dozen voters, at a few dozen polling locations, could absolutely be the difference maker. and it is a critical, key elections in our state. and i think that that is what their plans are, that that is what their ambition is, to inject as much confusion, frustration, in the process as possible. to discourage people from participating, and again, inject confusion, and to invalidate and cancel enough votes to continue to swing elections. and quite frankly, georgians aren t having it. what s for the weekend, my colleague, joy reid, says it
ballot these days. with us tonight to discuss, former florida republican congressman carlos curbelo. and robert gibbs, former obama campaign senior adviser, and white house press secretary under president obama. both msnbc political analysts. congressman, this is a top prime example of why local elections a matter. i wanna share more from the times writes, quote, election and democracy experts say they see the rise of anti democratic impulses in state houses, as a clear, new threat to the health of american democracy. how worried are you? yes, steph. this is a big deal. most of us are paying attention to the big primaries, like the pennsylvania last week, and of course george s coming up. these quite races that are getting a lot less attention, they can matter a lot, and they can make a big difference as to whether peoples votes counts or not. so there s a few organizations out there, issue one unite america who are paying
referendum on trump. i just don t know if there s that same energy in 2022. so let s discuss. i m gonna bring in the ceo of the new georgia project, a voter registration group that was founded by stacey abrams, under her leadership, the group has registered more than 400,000 george s to vote. i haven t seen in quite some time. it is great to have you join us tonight. early voting turnout, turnout in georgia primaries has already set records. now, republicans argue this proves that the election law they passed last year is not suppressing votes. democrats have argued they just had to work a lot harder. who is right? i d say that leader abrams as right, with a package that you just showed. but again, it is not about stopping voting. but it s about making it more difficult for certain types of americans to participate in our democracy, to participate in our elections. i will remind your viewers that president trump, it is grace
wages that are on the decline, then you are not the number one place to live in the united states, but we can get there. if you see, georgia is capable of greatness. we just need greatness to be in our governor s office. those cameras left a lot of people speechless, but not david perdue. he had a lot to say what iran is on our comments the radio program it was on earlier today, listen to this. the george stacey said this weekend? they said charges the worst place in the country to live. hey, she and from here, but i go back where she came from. be a backyard pantry. she doesn t care bad people georgia. police always she dane 18, we gotta do undocumented workers, and she told black farmers, they don t need to be on the farm, and still black workers, you don t need to be she had demeaning her own racial man. remaining our own, race also by, as she was asked about it earlier this evening in a conversation with my colleague