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Normally this kind of thing would happen outside of the bright spotlight of metro atlanta if it wasn t for voting rights and voter suppression being such an issue. you ve got organize owners the ground that are obviously trying to once again make this a question of voter turnout versus voter suppression in georgia as you a couple of really high profile races, the governor s race and also senate race coming up next year in georgia. so the stakes could not be higher. but the infrastructure is already on the ground, in place and in motion to potentially disinfranchise so many of the people you saw standing in line in record numbers just this time last year and again in january to turn that state blue. and the thing is, olivia, you have on the one hadn t hand, part of this is gotv. because the republican voter base cannot stand to loose, they re just like donald trump. they stomp their feet and get mad and say i m not going to ....
Of the a federal candidate s campaign, but they may also be about issues with the local school or issues about how to deal with food insecurity for neighbors in the community. it may just be a way of building community. the point you made and remarks you gave right before you had me on about how we re all accountable for each other, that s what a community is. right. and that gets built. that s an intentional thing that gets built by organizing. so what we want to do is make it possible for those groups not to have to soft flex up just in time for gotv to get out the vote, but to stay bulked up, to keep organizing all the time, well before the next election so that they build a sense of common cause, of common understanding. they overwhelm the obstacles and barriers being put up, to keep people from voting or be intimidated at the election site, and they understand at the ....
That well listen i think from the beginning we focus on building up a robust field operation, we ve sent over 31 million text messages. we ve had posted 25,000 people on the street heading into gotv. our intermission has been simple, we ve been focused on raising up awareness. in the mail, they could turn it in, or they can vote at an election site near the. homes would about this question of inequality? it s a state which by many measures it s the highest measure of a quality, that does have fairly high texas relative to others an income earners. on how it s folks and billionaire sort of next to each other have become in some ways, a sort of national image of parts of california. i ll central a problem does the governor see that? and the zebra responsibility for the person substance of it? you have the symptoms of ....
Students. so we don t have the same public-health outcomes that you see in states like texas and in florida. there there s been particular focus among latino voters in in california in the run-up to this. now, again, that category is amorphous in many ways which of course you know. it does seem there s been some change in in the polling at least. latest poll, 66% of latinos said they would not vote to recall newsom. that s from a few weeks ago. it s a shift from previous polls that were tight. does that track with what you guys have, internally? what do you what do you think has caused that? well, listen. i think from the beginning, we have focused on building up a pretty like robust field operation. we have sent over 31 million text messages. we have had close to 25,000 people on the streets heading into gotv weekend. and our message has been simple. we have been focused on raising up awareness by just informing people that they have a ballot in the mail and they can turn ....