tonight, allegations of voter suppression are hanging over one of the most closely watched governors races. that would be georgia where democrat stacey abrams is vying to be the first african-american woman to lead a state. she s accusing her republican opponent of blocking minority voters from casting ballots. we re joined now by our cnn washington correspondent jessica dean. jessica, tens of thousands of potential votes are at stake right now. reporter: that s right, wolf. so, let s take you through a potential situation here. they go to the voting poll on election day, only to find out that their voter registration has been placed on hold. now, the voter can still vote as long as they put out the proper identification. but it s that extra step that has people worried that some people may just decide not to vote at all. a major dust-up in the state of georgia weeks before voters go to the polls to choose their governor. the latest point of contention, allegations georgia secretary
relationship was, and the bottom line and the question has been in front of mueller, we have heard. the questions will be about corroboration. where did you get it and how can we validate it? the primary question, as david said, it is true or not? is there a difference in working with a british intelligence office, and the british is our allies, as opposed to working with the russians? if i am an american voting i want a certification saying i don t care who the point is if you are going to a voting poll do you want to be affirmed that nobody overseas tried to influence an election via an american political party, and for me the answer would be yes. he was a former british intelligence officer. that s right. we will resume our coverage right after this.
20 minutes ago. this is not about numbers at all. it is about the media. this is just a venue, another venue for him to diminish the media. as the congresswoman said, it s to undermine the credibility so people no longer pay attention to legitimate media sources. this means he controls all the information. this what people so fear in him are these authoritarian tendencies. every chance to put the media down, he will take advantage of this. suppose he accomplishes the things he set out to do. let s see he den grades the media, make us look like demonstrated liars, but he performs and achieves those things they went into the voting poll and that s why they elected
the first one, though. voters of color. you talk about the firewall that exists right now for the clinton campaign. they ll talk about this if you give them a little bit of truth serum. but basically when you get past iowa and new hampshire to underscore what we re talking about here, you look at south carolina. half the electorate in south carolina in the democratic primary is going to be black. maybe 55%. she is winning among black voters by 60 to 70 points right now. that is staggering. i mean, you think back to 2008. the hillary-obama primary in south carolina. we talked about this. the problems that supposedly existed between the clintons and black voters because of that primary. well, that s all washed away right now and the concern for sanders there is he really has been trying for the last he has. and what he has seen is his numbers have come up a bit but they re just still from 7 to 17 or something. exactly. still so far away. he needs 30, 40-point growth there. th
they re just still from 7 to 17 or something. exactly. still so far away. he needs 30, 40-point growth there. the other thing is you look at white voters in south carolina, it s basically even right now. it looks a lot like new hampshire and iowa, which are basically all white states, overwhelmingly white states. but that added dimension when you bring in a more diverse voting poll, it changes. do you think what we ve seen in this sort of i think emerging conventional wisdom about the campaign so far not being very untouched by ads. do you think that s going to pertain and continue particularly on the democratic side in the next month or so? what we ve seen so far if you want to fold the democratic and republican sides together is positive advertising doesn t seem has done nothing. right. but the question is and maybe this is more on the republican side because you re talking about sanders not wanting to run negative ads. it s a talking point. i ve never run a neg