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  Speaker 1: BIN News this hour. I'm Andrea Coleman. Coming up, the
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  Speaker 1: Justice Department explains who election monitors will be and.
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  Speaker 2: Hello Atlanta!
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  Speaker 3: Hello 4-4! Oh, it is good to be back in Georgia.
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  Speaker 1: Former President Barack Obama rallies voters in Georgia as early
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  Speaker 1: voting in the state winds down. But first, here's BIN
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  Speaker 1: News Now.
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  Speaker 2: President Trump rallied in South Carolina Thursday for Republican Senator
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  Speaker 2: Darlene Graham, who's facing a tight race against Democrat Annie Andrews.
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  Speaker 1: Your brother's looking down.
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  Speaker 2: He's going to be Tuesday night.
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  Speaker 1: Let's make Lindsey really happy and proud.
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  Speaker 2: Graham was appointed to replace her late brother, Senator Lindsey Graham.
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  Speaker 2: South Carolina has not elected a Democrat to the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Senate in nearly 30 years. The final push is underway
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  Speaker 2: ahead of Tuesday's midterm elections. Vice President J.D. Vance is
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  Speaker 2: campaigning for Ken Paxton in Texas. Democrat James Tallarico is
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  Speaker 2: also holding a rally in Dallas. And former Vice President
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  Speaker 2: Kamala Harris is attending an NAACP town hall in Atlanta.
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  Speaker 2: And a Chicago hospital is preparing to close its labor
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  Speaker 2: and delivery unit Saturday. Protesters outside Roseland Hospital say the
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  Speaker 2: shutdown will force expectant mothers to travel farther for care.
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  Speaker 2: raising concerns about Black maternal health. It's the fourth labor
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  Speaker 2: and delivery unit in the Chicago area to close this month.
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  Speaker 2: I'm Amber Payton with BIN News Now. Back to you, Andrea.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, Amber. The Justice Department is clarifying who will
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  Speaker 1: serve as monitors on Election Day, and court documents filed
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  Speaker 1: yesterday in a lawsuit brought by the NAACP, the DOJ
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  Speaker 1: said no FBI or ICE agents will be among the
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  Speaker 1: monitors dispatched to all 50 states next Tuesday. Instead, employees
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  Speaker 1: from the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
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  Speaker 1: Firearms and Explosives, and the Drug Enforcement Administration will serve
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  Speaker 1: as monitors, and none will have firearms. Georgia was among
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  Speaker 1: the latest states to receive notice of the monitors being dispatched.
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  Speaker 1: Over the weekend, state leaders were informed of monitors being
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  Speaker 1: sent to six counties, including Cobb, Fulton, DeKalb, and Gwinnett
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  Speaker 1: in the metro Atlanta area. Two races in the state
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  Speaker 1: have captured national attention, one being the Senate race between
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  Speaker 1: Don Ossoff and Congressman Mike Collins, the other being the
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  Speaker 1: governor's race featuring Keisha Lance Bottoms against Rick Jackson. Last night,
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  Speaker 1: former President Barack Obama was a featured speaker at a
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  Speaker 1: rally held for both candidates.
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  Speaker 3: Mr.
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  Speaker 1: Obama leaning hard on the affordability issue to make a
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  Speaker 1: case for supporting both of them.
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  Speaker 3: Because you know your prices are still up. Because you
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  Speaker 3: pay your utility bills. You've seen what those are like.
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  Speaker 3: You know it's still hard to pay rent and pay
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  Speaker 3: for child care and pay for health insurance. And you
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  Speaker 3: know we need serious people who are listening to your concerns,
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  Speaker 3: who see you and care about you and have real
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  Speaker 3: plans to make.
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  Speaker 1: Your life better.
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  Speaker 3: People like John Ossoff, people like Keisha Lance Bottoms.
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  Speaker 1: And Mr. Obama also poked fun at President Trump's reaction
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  Speaker 1: to comments he made last weekend likening Mr. Trump's White
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  Speaker 1: House renovations to Saddam Hussein opening a cheesecake factory.
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  Speaker 3: They did not dispute. What I said about them being
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  Speaker 3: directly responsible for rising prices, they did not argue with that.
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  Speaker 3: They did not deny terrorists were contributing to higher costs
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  Speaker 3: for families. They didn't say anything about that. I accused
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  Speaker 3: this administration based on the facts that they were engaging
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  Speaker 3: in unprecedented levels of corruption.
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  Speaker 4: They didn't say anything about that. The president wasn't even
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  Speaker 4: mad about the Saddam Hussein comparison. That part didn't bother him.
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  Speaker 3: But he was very upset about the Cheesecake Factory comments.
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  Speaker 3: He took great umbrage.
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  Speaker 4: He said, I didn't understand.
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  Speaker 3: The work of the artisans in the White House.
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  Speaker 1: The latest polls show Ossoff with a comfortable lead in
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  Speaker 1: his race against Collins and Bottoms neck and neck with Jackson.
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  Speaker 1: Early voting in the state ends tomorrow. This is BIN
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  Speaker 1: News This Hour. Be sure to follow us wherever you
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  Speaker 1: get your podcasts. I'm Andrea Coleman on the Black Information Network,
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  Speaker 1: home of Black News First.