their state in a democratic direction. is this going to be a test today? is it going to be a test in november of the staying power of what stacey abrams built? i think we ve already seen that stacey was about giving people a voice in the political process that have felt unheard and unseen for far too long. that s what we re seeing across the country, other southern states like alabama and mississippi. how do we give the power back to the people. that s what all her campaigns have been about. now she s running to represent one georgia. we need someone who is willing to represent all of us. show us the staying power of the machine she built that frankly turned out a lot of people who had not voted in the past? i think absolutely. this didn t happen overnight. it was cycle by cycle by cycle. we built upon this. we didn t just get to where we were in 2020 overnight. it wassing the organizing cycle by cycle.
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motivational speak. so when he gets out of the stump, national news outlets hear a lot about his gaffs. conservatives hear him saying i think we should all get along. i want to bring us together. i believe this state can do anything we want it to do because we re all here and we re pouring this state. people love that message. he ran against a navy s.e.a.l., s.e.a.l. team 6. that didn t matter. nobody cared. he ran against an agriculture commissioner who has been elected statewide three times. that was not important. a small businessman, a black man who went to the academy and played football there. nobody cared. herschel walker is be loved by about half of this state. he has a lot of work to do with the rest of this state. raphael warnock is waiting out there with policy, with his own set of gifts. about a block in that direction is ebenezer baptist church where
trump s meddling in the 2020 election, a deep rural urban divide and unending drama between the trump wing of the republican party and the local gop establishment. it s on those last few points where tonight s results will give us some important answers potentially to these questions. what is the power of a trump endorsement these day, and does the big lie have staying power here? the republican schism over those two points are at play in the republican gubernatorial primary right now. current georgia governor brian kemp fighting to keep his seat, keeping it from trump-endorsed former senator david purdue. both of them were on the campaign trail last night. purdue has the backing of the former president. and kemp last night on stage with former vice president mike pence who fell out of trump s favor himself after, of course, january 6th. now, whoever wins that race will face off against democrat stacey
best advice to your candidates, it s the economy, stupid, thanks james carville. we re all feeling the impact of the economy. i m looking for a senate candidate who will take his case to the georgia voters. we haven t seen that from herschel walker. it doesn t seem to have hurt him at all. we re just getting started. we re not in the general election yet. i know my senator, raphael warnock, is going to continue to make the case for georgia and how he s delivered in the past year and a half he s been serving in the u.s. senate. we ll know later tonight whether or not there s a surge. stacey abrams built a machine. i know after the last election i went down to alabama. i went down to mississippi, places where other black women are trying to use her as a model for how they want to and they re willing to wait years and years and years move