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c-span, your unfiltered view of government. host: i did want to focus once again on it being primary day. specifically in the of georgia. you. going to make sure we can hear you. as we get your sound taken care of, the article in today's "atlanta journal constitution" with your biline, georgia voters will decide some key questions in today's primaries. greg, what are some of the key questions? guest: well, first of all, we're going to decide here in georgia the value of donald trump's endorsement. not only has he endorsed former senator purdue in his campaign for governor against the incumbent, but he's also endorsed 12 other candidates down the ballot. some are shoe-ins.

but others are facing uphill battles. we're talking about down ticket statewide candidates going against entrenched incumbents and candidates who are in open races. donald trump has been trying to reshape georgia's republican party after his 2020 defeat and we're going to find out if republican voters go along with it. host: one other headline i wanted to ask you about and it focuses on the gubernatorial race. g.o.p. jumps on stacey abrams' comment, calling georgia the worst state to live in. where and why did she do that? guest: this was on friday at a democratic gala. a big fundraising dinner for local democrats. stacey abrams usually talks about some of georgia's lapses, some issues she feels like georgia should be working on. including mental health woes and maternal mortality rates that are high and incarceration rates. in this version of her stump speech, she said georgia's the worst place to live. and then she kind of paused and then shifted back to her overall message.

republicans clipped that part out and are going to make sure they weaponize that. not just right now but through the end of the november election. and already, just last night, i was at a major republican rally, i was at several republican events, david purdue and kemp both evoked these comments. so they will try to make sure that she regrets saying those words. host: from the governor's race to the senate race. you do a lot of this in looking at the messaging and how each is trying to frame the debate. set us up in the senate race, that closely watched race. guest: yeah. this is a six-candidate republican race for u.s. senate. and hershel walker, the former football star, the legislated, who had -- legend, who had almost universal name recognition before he even entered the race, he's the frontrunner. he's such a front runner in this contest that he's -- i've never heard him utter another rival's

name unless he's specifically asked about them. he has skipped debates and forums. he hasn't gone to conventional campaign events, hasn't downtown halls. the trappings of your normal campaign in georgia. because he feels like he doesn't have to. he's a celebrity candidate. he's so well known. but beyond that, he's also been the rare candidate who can sort of bridge the divide between the old guard establishment republican party and the maga world. he has donald trump's endorsement and mitch mcconnell's endorsement. he has other washington figures backing his campaign. host: greg bluestein. how should viewers watch a georgia election night in georgia? where do results usually come in first and how does the night develop? when do we usually know these things? guest: that's a great question. the election laws have been

rewritten. the earlier counting of absentee ballots, so we don't wait days like we did in 2020. i mean, if you recall from 2020, we knew the dynamics pretty early on. we knew that it would be very close race and that joe biden would likely come out on top after a few hours of vote counting. but it took days until those dynamics kind of took place because of slow vote counting in places like clayton county. so right now we always expect the biggest counties, particularly fulton county, which is the most populous county in georgia, encompasses most of the city of atlanta and a bunch of other cities, we can usually expect those to be among the last results to come in and they're also -- of course some of the biggest results that come in, whether it be republican or democratic primaries, usually that makes for somewhat later night. but in georgia we haven't had close races until recently. so it didn't matter as much, we

wouldn't get all the fulton or other returns until late at night or the next morning or even days later. but now we're in the most politically divided state in the nation. just 11,000 or so votes divided biden and trump in 2020. so we'll see how long it takes. but with the polls showing such big leads for both kemp and walker in the governor, senator race, they could call these races very early. host: if there is an upset tonight, where should we be looking? anywhere on the ballot. guest: it's very likely that the kemp or walker get pulled into a runoff. what i'm watching very closely, one is the seventh district democratic congressional race. the republicans redid georgia's political maps and made the north atlanta suburban district unwinnable. it's so conservative that a democratic really can't win that. so she hopped over next door to challenge an incumbent -- a

fellow democratic representative. both of them are very popular in their own right. both have national brands to a degree. both are really bitter battle to see who can represent that suburban democratic district the other race i'm really closely watching that i think the nation is as well is the secretary of state race. he was on the other end of the phone call from donald trump urging him to find the votes to reverse the election. now he's facing hice, real republican territory, who a year ago you would have thought he was kind of a shoe-in. he had trump's endorsement. you'd think that jodie hic -- jody hi ce would have had a cake walk. but it's a close race. and the other campaign feels like it has an outright shot.

host: great political reporting team covering it all tonight at ajc.com. greg one of the political reporters there. thanks so much for starting a very long and b >> now to a hearing looking at inequities in the financial system for people with disabilities and those experiencing long-term effects of their covid-19 infection. this meeting being held by financial services subcommittee. this is live on c-span. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2022]

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