georgia voters are mortified than ever with the primaries just two days away, we ve got new numbers from georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger s office, and it shows early voting in the peak state surged ahead of tuesday s primaries. 2022 s total is up to 112% from 2020. and 2020 was a presidential election year, so that s pretty good. now let s look at the party lines, we ve got republicans who cast nearly 500,000 early ballots, while democrats cast just over 368,000. so, what insight can early voting numbers and the primaries actually tell us about how things will shake out in the general? i m so glad you asked, because we have nbc news correspondent ellison barber, on the ground in hot land to break it down, welcome ellison. okay, so nearly 900,000 people voted early in a primary, in a midterm here. what is happening and what can this mean for november? yeah, i, mean it s a really big deal for me when i look at those numbers and think, what does it mean as we mov
surged in georgia. early voting. ahead of tuesday s primaries in the state. more than 850,000 residents already have cast their votes, despite some of the most restrictive voting laws in the country. yet, the core of it all, a most visible reminder of donald trump s unpredictable but enduring pull on the gop. in a state that trump brazenly tried to bend to his will two years ago. is endorsed candidate in the state governors race. david perdue is limping behind incumbent brian kemp. trump announcing last minute a televised rally for purdue tomorrow night. on the other side, democratic former state representative stacey abrams is running unopposed in her race to become the nation s first black woman governor. tonight, we are all about with the primaries will mean for the rest of the country. that s politicsnation this evening. plus, a new washington poll revealing the depth of our racial divide two years after george floyd s murder. now in the aftermath of the tragedy in buff
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