lie, today s georgia primary will be democrats first major test of running in the state since it passed last year s restrictive election law. that 2020 law signed by governor brian kemp does everything to require id to vote by mail, to banning bringing snacks to people waiting if line to vote. for more, i want to bring in congresswoman niekma williams, . great to see both of you. congresswoman, as you see early voting and hearing what s going on at the polls right now, are you feeling, seeing any of the impact from these new voting laws? one of the things that we noticed is there was a surge in early voting, but a lot of people that we re hearing from voted early because they didn t want to risk the chance of what might happen on election day. so it s yet to be seen if those early voting surges were a replacement for election day. what we know is that we
how much can democrats learn? how much should they read into how this race eventually goes tonight? i think what we ve seen, we ve been successful in building multiracial coalitions in georgia. the republicans saw that. in a 50/50 state they gerrymandered us out of power in the state. we re up against the repeated tactics, not just voter suppression, but gerrymandering that pitted these two great candidates against each other in today s primary. what do you think? the polls would suggest that mcbath is going to win? certainly the conventional wisdom is mcbath is going to win. could there be a surprise? bordeaux has a toehold in the district that mcbath doesn t have. she s been going to churches, going to town meetings. mcbath was very visible in the sixth district. mcbath has got this great story
faly, it was really finding gold. one of my grandfathers, didn t even know his birthdate. i figured out the exact year he was born. the census records fill in gaps, it helped me push the door open. good morning. i m chris jansing on the ground in atlanta, georgia. right behind me you can see the state capitol building. this is one of five states with primaries today, but this, georgia, the most closely watched. there s a lot of energy around here. the race here, the anticipation is palpable. voters are out in big numbers and, as the new york times puts it so well, georgia has got everything, disputed election, rapid demographic change, celebrity democrats, restricted new voting law, an open criminal investigation into donald
decades, when i talked to grass-roots democrats who have been working in the trenches, one thing they have been telling me a long time is the democratic party needs to pay more attention to legislative races, they need to pay more attention to secretary of state races. have they not, because that was the message we got for a long time, and do you any what we saw in 2020 was a wake-up call? looking at what state legislatures have done in passing statewide abortion bans, looking at, again, what happened state by state by state with donald trump trying to pressure secretaries of state to change the election results? here in georgia, democrats, we had power until 2002. up until 2020, we spent the last 18 years trying to regain that power, playing by the rules that the republicans put in place. all of the early vote rules, absentee ballot, vote by mail, they were put in place by
arguably unlike anything we ve seen? he didn t participate in any debates. there were some questions about his relationships with women that continue to dog him. you can name any number of things about comments he made, and yet none of it seemed to matter. none of it mattered. you can t really overstate the level of affection for herschel walker. it s hard to explain for people outside georgia. when you drive around state, you ll see an american flag, trump flag and a university of georgia flag. herschel walker is at the apex of that vortex. herschel walker is also the most famous georgia football player to ever come out of this state. football is saturday religion around here. he has a quality about him, especially for conservatives, that you cannot pay for. they trust him. they feel like they know him, feel like they watched him grow up. he spent the last 30 years as a