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Speaker 1: What's happening straight to the family. This is your girls,

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Speaker 1: Tesla and figure, oh, did you know that Georgia does

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Speaker 1: not require political affiliation when registering the vote? Let me

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Speaker 1: give you some game. So far, more than two point

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Speaker 1: eight million people have cast ballots in the state of Georgia,

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Speaker 1: shattering the previous record for the December two thousand eight

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Speaker 1: centate runoff, when only two point one million votes were casts.

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Speaker 1: Now checked this out. As I mentioned, Georgia doesn't require

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Speaker 1: you to register by political party. That means that no

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Speaker 1: vote could be taken for granted. You may be asking, Tesla,

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Speaker 1: and how does that make sense? Explain that to me. Well,

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Speaker 1: the reason why they can't take voters for granted is

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Speaker 1: because candidates cannot assume that they have anyone's vote on lock.

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Speaker 1: This is why I support all states removing political party

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Speaker 1: as a requirement for voting. States like Georgia and Texas

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Speaker 1: have that type of process. Or you say, well, how

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Speaker 1: do they What do you mean they can't assume that

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Speaker 1: they have it on lock? Well, if if a candidate

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Speaker 1: goes into a state and I'm giving you based on

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Speaker 1: what I know, not what I heard, and they go

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Speaker 1: into a state or city, and they understand that a

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Speaker 1: certain amount of percent is already registered as Democrat. They

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Speaker 1: tend to not spend the necessary resources in an area

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Speaker 1: that they think they already have on lock. That means

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Speaker 1: that they don't spend money on black media. They don't

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Speaker 1: spend money on black outreach in order to hire us

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Speaker 1: to actually go out and do the job. They don't

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Speaker 1: spend money on black newspapers, ads, they don't rent boothspace,

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Speaker 1: they don't knock on doors because it is the assumption

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Speaker 1: that they can take our vote for granted. So when

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Speaker 1: you remove political party affiliation during the voter registration process,

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Speaker 1: it forces candidates to compete. They are forced to spend

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Speaker 1: more in our communities to get out the vote. Do

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Speaker 1: you know that nearly half a billion dollars was spent

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Speaker 1: on just the runoffs. Think about that, half a billion

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Speaker 1: dollars in just two months. How much of that you

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Speaker 1: think went to the black community. I'm sure a lot,

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Speaker 1: because they couldn't just assume that they could take the

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Speaker 1: black vote for granted. I've seen this happened time and

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Speaker 1: time again. You'll hear me talk about how Orlando is

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Speaker 1: my political stomping ground. Now. I lived in Oklahoma City, Orlando, Chicago, Dallas,

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Speaker 1: and Houston. But I spent most of my time in

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Speaker 1: politics in Orlando. Florida is a red state, typically votes Republican.

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Speaker 1: It has swing back back and forth as you can see.

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Speaker 1: But the city of Orlando, the metropolitan area of Orlando,

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Speaker 1: is a Democrat brand city. And so I've seen resources

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Speaker 1: not be spent in Democrat ran cities and more money

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Speaker 1: being spent on rural communities because that is the vote

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Speaker 1: that they feel they have to compete for. And unfortunately

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Speaker 1: it leaves us out the process. And when we're left

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Speaker 1: out the process, we can't make demands to the candidates,

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Speaker 1: and those candidates are not required to meet those demands.

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Speaker 1: So it is so important that voting registration at some

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Speaker 1: point is removed from your registration. Now again, you can

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Speaker 1: still vote in Democrat. I'll give you an example with Texas.

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Speaker 1: When you register with Texas, you're not required to say

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Speaker 1: you're a Democratic Republican. You just register. Then when you

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Speaker 1: go vote for the Democrat primary, for example, when we

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Speaker 1: had to pick the Democrat candidate of choice who would

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Speaker 1: be the nominee, you do have to decide when you

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Speaker 1: go to the ballot if you're going to vote in

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Speaker 1: the Democrat primary of the Republican primary. You can't vote

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Speaker 1: in both, only one, So it does require you to

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Speaker 1: make that choice when you get to the polls. But

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Speaker 1: I'm talking about the information that is used previously before

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Speaker 1: you actually get to the polls to determine how people

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Speaker 1: will swing left or right. It also prevents posters from

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Speaker 1: making predictions and inaccurate predictions, because they typically made predictions

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Speaker 1: based upon political parties. That's why you will see posters

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Speaker 1: stayed far away from this Georgia race because one they've

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Speaker 1: been screwing up the game would inaccurate polls, and it's

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Speaker 1: caused more confusion and chaos than it's been helpful. And

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Speaker 1: because it's very hard to make predictions when people are

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Speaker 1: not putting their political affiliation on their voter registration. Now,

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Speaker 1: they still have made some predictions based upon age and race.

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Speaker 1: For example, they can say x amount of voters tend

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Speaker 1: So predictions are still made, but it's not a straight

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Speaker 1: came in and those people are Democrats. So what this

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Speaker 1: does is it allows everyone to be more competitive, and

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Speaker 1: when candidates are more competitive, we win. It's not about

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Speaker 1: them to spend every dollar, they have to campaign harder

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Speaker 1: and longer, not just three months, six months the year.

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Speaker 1: You'll even see what a lot of your local races.

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Speaker 1: People are no longer getting on at the last minute

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Speaker 1: three months, four months, six months, people are getting on

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Speaker 1: for city seats two years out. I can tell you

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Speaker 1: by working with candidates they hate running long races because

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Speaker 1: when they run long races it makes them more vulnerable

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Speaker 1: assure you every candidate does not like running a long race,

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Speaker 1: but they've had to because things are becoming more competitive,

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Speaker 1: and when it becomes more competitive, we win. So on Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: remember the race does not end, It just begins, not

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Speaker 1: just in Georgia but all over this country. We must

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Speaker 1: continue to push the line. We must blog, we must tweet,

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Speaker 1: we must get active, we must show up at meetings.

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Speaker 1: We must use mainstream media. We must use black owned

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Speaker 1: media like the Black Fair Podcast Network. We must continue

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Speaker 1: to push and push and push and push. Do not

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Speaker 1: think because you do not have a major platform that

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Speaker 1: you do not have something to do in this bigger

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Speaker 1: picture because you do simple things write an article, blog, tweet, post, share,

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Speaker 1: jump in the comments. But what I asked you to

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Speaker 1: do most of all, is whole, your local elected official

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Speaker 1: accountable for what they do. And when I say local,

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Speaker 1: for clarity, I don't mean just your city. I mean

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Speaker 1: your local meeting, your city, and your state, and your

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Speaker 1: they are still your local. Meaning when I say local,

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Speaker 1: I mean the person that you interactuate, that comes to

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Speaker 1: Talking about Trump from a distance doesn't mean ship. He

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Speaker 1: doesn't read your posts. You can care less what you say.

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Speaker 1: But if you go to your congressional candidate's office, who

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Speaker 1: is required to meet with you right around the corner,

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Speaker 1: you'll start to see some action. Stay tuned, straight shot,

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Speaker 1: no chaser, great interviews coming up. I will continue to

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Speaker 1: it sweet and short to give you this game as

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Speaker 1: we continue to move forward. Like I always say, use it,

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Speaker 1: lose it, but I can't make it. Choose it until

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Speaker 1: next time. Until next time, Jill, next time,