'Ground Zero for Misinformation' with Greg Bluestein

Battleground with Amanda Litman and Faiz Shakir

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Government, News, Politics

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🗓️ 21 December 2020

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Greg Bluestein is one of the savviest political analysts in the Peach State. He covers the governor's office and state politics for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, co-hosts their podcast "Politically Georgia," and recently moderated the debate between Senator Kelly Loeffler and Raphael Warnock. This week David and Steve call Greg to talk about the unprecedented internecine warfare among Republicans in Georgia, how the political chaos could hurt the state’s economy, and how claims of election fraud are confusing the voters Republicans need to keep the Senate.

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0:00.0	I'm David Plough and I'm Steve Schmitt.
0:03.2	And this is Battleground, a podcast from the recount and I heart radio.
0:09.7	Today we're excited to be talking to Greg Bluestein.
0:12.6	Many of you may know him.
0:13.6	He's a political reporter for the Atlanta Journal of Constitution.
0:16.1	Deeply immersed in Georgia politics for over a decade is really plugged in to these two
0:21.4	Senate runoff elections.
0:22.4	And we're going to be talking to him about those races, but also talk about what's going
0:26.8	to happen in Georgia in the two to four years to come because Stephen, I both believe
0:30.4	that Georgia is going to be ground zero for a lot of these fissures in their Republican
0:34.4	party.
0:35.4	First David, let's catch up on the latest bullshit emanating from the White House.
0:40.2	Steve, you and I have talked a lot about this on this program and off this program, but
0:43.8	the pro-democracy versus pro-autocracy forces, that is the definitional battle.
0:49.4	And those on the pro-democracy side are going to have to be, I think, willing and eager
0:54.4	to build the biggest tent possible so that folks who disagree on a whole bunch of things,
0:59.0	but agree on the big thing are in allegiance and alignment.
1:02.4	And it's going to take discipline and focus.
1:04.6	You put this, I think, in a very searing way, which is the pro-democracy side cannot afford
1:10.0	to lose a presidential election.
1:11.4	Nope.
1:12.4	And I agree that that's a lot of pressure.
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