we did it right after the horrible decision in texas, the vigilantes following women around and all that. that s what that does. and it was unfortunate that some of the republicans who claim to be pro-choice pro the decision. we call it a decision as a woman, as a family, with her doctor, her family, and make those decisions. but, no, i think it was really important to make that vote. i think it was most fortunate that those who profess to be supportive of a woman s decision in that regard found that to be too much. that was roe v. wade. that s the enshrinement of roe v. wade. so in terms of to your larger question, women, i think you know, you ve heard me say before president lincoln said public sentiment is everything. with it, you can accomplish almost anything. without it, practically nothing. for public sentiment to weigh in, people have to know. so women have to know how
maybe just rank and file rain street republicans, uncomfortable with that, as well. so it s fascinating that, here, we had 2000, famously talking about florida, florida, florida. not many would have guessed we re talking about georgia now so much. it is georgia, georgia, georgia. for people who think the south is solidly republican, will be solidly republican, this sort of extremism we ve been talking about, that have the democrats picking up basically 10, 15 points over the past several months in the generic ballot test. it s not hard to explain. you go back to 2018. you had donald trump s extremism helping democrats make huge gains in 2018. in 2019, you had the extremism of donald trump and republicans helping democrats win the governorships in louisiana and kentucky. let me say that again. louisiana and kentucky. georgia, a battleground state in
there, the outcome of the entire election may be different. senate races, what are you looking at? let s begin with the perdue/kemp race. will it be as big of a blowout as people are saying? herschel walker on the other side, who people think will win by more than 50 points today. dynamic is looking very good for governor kemp. pretty much every public poll shows him not only above the 50% mark he needs to avoid a june run-off, but close to 60%. no one with kemp s campaign or neutral observers have any doubt he will win this election with a big lead. i mean, a mandate among republicans. that sets him up well for a he match with stacey abrams. the senate race lacks a lot of surprise mentality, as well. herschel walker has been ahead in every single poll from the get-go. he has barely mentioned his rivals names, only when asked directly. he ignored him.
black people might, quote, get off the farm. not sure the trifecta. what to do with that. this is just this is this is not a dog whistle. this is, like, a foghorn blaring megaphone. and it is a foghorn through a megaphone, i guess. again, even endorsement from low energy don is not going to erase the horrors of this. and said all that to the cheers of the crowd inside the bar. he was sitting next to peter navorro, former trump adviser, as well. he has somebody supporting him from the trump administration strongly. you know, elise, you grew up in the south. you know what politics are like in those states. the environment now is such that you can say something like that out loud, which is just that was a breathtaking 30 seconds or
georgia. one candidate we haven t talked about enough, i think, brad raffensperger. what is the state of play? he might be maybe the biggest surprise to me, at least, this election cycle. a year ago, many georgia political figures, analysts, folks like me were counting him out. didn t think he d qualify to run. he was a pariah among republicans. now, he looks like he has a decent shot of a very strong shot of making a runoff against jody hice, trump-backed candidate, and an outside chance of winning this outright. even the fact we re talking about him, even the fact he is in the ball game, in the conversation right now, says a lot about how republicans are rejecting the 2020 lies and rejecting the focus at least some republicans rejecting the focus on 2020 and focusing on 2020. secretary raffensperger was the last line of defense. recounting twice in georgia, once by hand and saying joe biden won. if a different person were