literally. we have a governor who is a hard right extremist, who is a religious treemist, who likes to pretend that he is a moderate because he is anti-trump or a fiscal conservative but to your point, he is someone who has proven time and again he does not care about the people of georgia, he does not care about the future of georgia. i want to talk a while bit more about abortion because it is front and center in georgia, not because of the campaign, but just because of the laws that are being passed here, but it is very interesting, we had elise jordan, who did a focus group of georgia voters, we had this focus on georgia democrats and a focus group on georgia republicans shall the georgia republicans who were trump voters were predictably extreme on issues like the election being stolen. and would say crazy things about possible conspiracy theories but when the topic came to abortion, one of the men that supported
some, the only reason they will cast a ballot this fall. this is an nbc news special report. we have just received word of a decision in one of the most consequential cases before the supreme court in deck decades. june 24 was a victory decades in the making nor one side. i will be joining now. . there are no words that can describe what i m feeling right now. an unfathomable outcome from the other. it sounds like my country doesn t love me and appreciate my body as a woman. many american women for the first time in their lives lost a constitutional right, something the supreme court had never done before. unfortunately, people are going to die, women are going to die, between now and when we can get legislation passed. which is untenable. and i don t know how we let it get to this point. the supreme court s conservative majority ruled 6-3,
every day, we can talk about the environment and how it s shifting because of this court decision, or because of that crazy statement by other political candidates, i m curious what are you seeing on the ground 100 days out? what i m seeing on the ground is a great deal of anxiety and the desire for hope. we live in a state that is in the midst of multiple crises. while some people are doing well, so many georgians are struggling. we have an economic crisis that is being exacerbated by the failure of this governor to deploy resources. we have evictions that are at a skyrocketing rate. number two or three in the nation. we have a housing crisis in georgia. we have an economic issue. because while prices are rising, wages are not. they re stagnant in georgia. so we may have low unemployment. but unfortunately these jobs are not playing a good paying wage so family are struggling to get by. we are facing an extreme abortion ban.
but because he doesn t think that s his job. and the very few dollars that he has spent has gone to the industry, to the hotel industry, and not to families that are in need. he has refused to address the hunger crisis, we have a food insecurity crisis in a state that is number one for agriculture. those are all the issues that families worry about. food on the table. a roof over your head. and the ability to make a living to take care of your family. brian kemp has no solutions. but he has the power, georgia has a $6 billion surplus, that is a surplus that could invest in future pay raises, which i recommended, raises for law enforcement to get them to a living wage, but also money we could put into small businesses which are 99% of the businesses in the state of georgia. there are tools available, but we need a governor who is good at math, and has the willingness to do it, and i tell people to check my plan. i have actually put the plan online, it s a spread sheet, you can check my
play this fall, that did not want to go into this fall having a discussion about abortion, they didn t want to go into this fall having a discussion about guns and here we, are and they were unhappy that a number of the states including mississippi, pushing forward abortion legislation that they knew would wind up in front of the supreme court. so here we are. and now, the leadership is hammered by candidates who are so whacked up that voters are looking at them saying i can t do that. and policy positions that are untenable for a lot of republicans to, you know, to try to take advantage of. michael steele, thank you so much. greatly appreciate you being with us. and i just, i just want to ask, elise said she was looking closely at pennsylvania, that s going to be a fascinating race. what race are you looking at? michigan. i mean i just, it is, i think that whitmer could be, if she