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Ossoff holds large lead in reelection bid, as Georgia governor's race is deadlocked, new poll finds · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Welcome back to the take out. There is some new
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  Speaker 1: polling out of Georgia offering competing, competing situations in both
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  Speaker 1: of the elections down there that we are keeping close
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  Speaker 1: eyes on. AARP. Yes, the Association of Retired People, who
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  Speaker 1: does some pretty reputable polling, has found Democratic Senator John
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  Speaker 1: Ossof holding a nine point lead in his re election
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  Speaker 1: bid over Republican Congressman Mike Collins, but the governor's race
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  Speaker 1: is deadlocked. Former Atlanta mayor and Democrat Keisha Lance Bottoms
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  Speaker 1: slightly ahead of Republican Rick Jackson, but within the margin
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  Speaker 1: of era, which we call it tie. Our reporter panel
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  Speaker 1: is here with me to discuss. Kidiagoba is a reporter
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  Speaker 1: for Notice News of the United States and Tia Mitchell
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  Speaker 1: is the Washington beer chief for the Great Atlanta Journal Constitution. Ladies,
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  Speaker 1: great to see you both, Tia, since you work for
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  Speaker 1: the AJAC, how do you explain the discrepancy in these
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  Speaker 1: two races?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the discrepancy the difference is John Ossoff is an
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  Speaker 2: incumbent and he's been working it for six years of
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  Speaker 2: constituent getting out there having events. Keisha Lance Bottoms, yes,
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  Speaker 2: she has held political office before in Atlanta, but she
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  Speaker 2: has not been in office for the last few years.
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  Speaker 2: She also, you know, I think there are more questions
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  Speaker 2: about her. So the governor's race and the Senate races
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  Speaker 2: in Georgia, yes, they're on the same ballot, but there
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  Speaker 2: are two very different races. I think we should also
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  Speaker 2: point out that John Assof's Republican challenger is a sitting
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  Speaker 2: congressman who has his own record to run on. In
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  Speaker 2: that record, there are things that people might like, but
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  Speaker 2: I think people are also seeing things to criticize about
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  Speaker 2: Mike Collins.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and this is also the kind of state that
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  Speaker 1: is more likely to split their ticket right historically than
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  Speaker 1: to put members of one party in both of those
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  Speaker 1: big positions.
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  Speaker 2: I will say that. I mean, if nothing, it's historically
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  Speaker 2: a state that Republicans win statewide. But what we have
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  Speaker 2: seen in recent years, particularly when Warnock won his re
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  Speaker 2: election in twenty twenty two, yes, there were war not
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  Speaker 2: voters where people voted for the incumbent Democratic senator and
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  Speaker 2: the incumbent Republican governor.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so this will be a little diferentcause it's an
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  Speaker 1: open governor's race.
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  Speaker 3: Kidia.
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  Speaker 1: I know you guys have been working on some reporting
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  Speaker 1: regarding how Congressional Republicans are planning to run this fall
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  Speaker 1: by warning voters about how democrats policies will increase their
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  Speaker 1: taxes instead of touting the fact that they passed what
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  Speaker 1: is a pretty significant tax cut bill last summer.
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  Speaker 3: Why are they doing it this way? Yeah, it's super interesting.
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  Speaker 4: I think you know, every Republican in the House will
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  Speaker 4: go home and have to face their constituents talking about
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  Speaker 4: rising taxes, I'm sorry, rising gas prices, food, increased food prices.
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  Speaker 4: A lot of them voted for or support Donald Trump,
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  Speaker 4: and they kind of blame him for the war which
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  Speaker 4: is inflating or causing some of this inflation.
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  Speaker 3: So it is much easier.
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  Speaker 4: To go home rather talk about the one beautiful bill
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  Speaker 4: that they passed a year ago and talk about how
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  Speaker 4: dangerous it would be to elect a Democrat, or you
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  Speaker 4: know how the New York trend where a lot of
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  Speaker 4: progressives to beat a bunch of incumbents are you know,
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  Speaker 4: that could be a massive nationwide thing that people need to,
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  Speaker 4: you know, be careful about. So, yeah, it's much easier
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  Speaker 4: to make Democrats the boogeyman when you're talking about when
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  Speaker 4: you have the presidency, both chambers and you are trying
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  Speaker 4: to convince people to give you back the majority.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is amazing how they've struggled to sell this
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  Speaker 1: much the same way that Democrats struggled to sell the
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  Speaker 1: Biden Agenda. I'm back in twenty two and even in
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  Speaker 1: twenty four, real quick, I want to ask you too
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  Speaker 1: about this Joe Manchin. Remember him, because you know we
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  Speaker 1: haven't gotten three months to not mention his name. And
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  Speaker 1: even in retirement, he finds a way. He is launching
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  Speaker 1: a group looking to elect independent candidates to kind of
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  Speaker 1: risk suggesting it's not a third party, but a movement
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  Speaker 1: of people that will bring our country and the people
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  Speaker 1: who are participating in politics stay more towards the center.
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  Speaker 1: You both cover Congress, you both cover politics. You get
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  Speaker 1: a sense of something like this would ever work.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think it's at the end of the day.
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  Speaker 2: We are two party nation right now. It's so hard
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  Speaker 2: for people who are not affiliated with one of the
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  Speaker 2: two political parties to advance. That's why we see so
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  Speaker 2: many democratic socialists of self identified democratic socialists running as
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  Speaker 2: Democrats because they know they need a major party backing what.
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  Speaker 2: We're also seeing a lot of these primaries. Is people
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  Speaker 2: tend not to support centrist candidates in the primaries, and
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  Speaker 2: you've got to get through a primary before you make
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  Speaker 2: it to a general election ballot, so it'll be I
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  Speaker 2: think it's easier said than done. Also, we're hearing from
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  Speaker 2: voters a lot. They want someone who's going to fight.
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  Speaker 2: They don't necessarily like that centrist message. They don't necessarily
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  Speaker 2: like that message of we're going to try to get
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  Speaker 2: along and work towards the middle. Voters right now are
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  Speaker 2: fired up, whether you're on the right or you're left,
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  Speaker 2: and you want someone's going to be fired up.
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  Speaker 1: From a governing perspective, if there was this coalition in
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  Speaker 1: the middle, it might work.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, but it's not happening.
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  Speaker 4: You look at Biden one or Kamala Harris one district
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  Speaker 4: right there's about three of them and they are always contested.
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  Speaker 4: And you talk about Kevin Kylie right now, he's the
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  Speaker 4: one person who is an independent so well independent, but
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  Speaker 4: that was as a result of redistricting. I texted him
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  Speaker 4: earlier and asked him if he was going to.
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  Speaker 3: Be a part of it.
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  Speaker 4: He said, he supports it, and he is looking forward
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  Speaker 4: to working with them.
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  Speaker 3: Might make him win his election.
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  Speaker 4: He doesn't vote independent, he votes with Republicans.
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  Speaker 1: So we'll see a nice Stragio mansion.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe maybe not.
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  Speaker 1: Idia Gooba, Pia Mitchell, thank you both for being here.
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  Speaker 3: Have a good weekend.