I can't believe it, Roy, a real life
Waffle House in Atlanta.
Man, I'm excited.
This is my first time.
You're going to love it.
All right, let's do it. You know, I'm--
Hey, hey, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh, uh-uh.
We can't go in yet.
What do you mean we can't go in?
It's not open? - No, no.
It's open, but we waiting for the fights to start.
And they spill out into the parking lot.
It's almost 2:00 AM. It's about to jump.
Fights, Roy?
I didn't come here for the fights.
I came for the waffles. Come on, man.
Let's just go in.
Mean you came for the waffle-- nobody goes to Waffle
House for just the waffles.
Violence is part of the experience.
You said you wanted the authentic Waffle
House experience, right?
Yeah, yeah.
OK, the authentic Waffle House
experience is watching strangers
punch each other in the face.
You record it.
You go viral.
I don't care about going viral,
filming somebody's fight.
I just want to eat the food.
Just trust me, OK?
- I'm-- I'm just going to go-- - Just hang on.
Hang on. - Roy, I'll--
- Just hold on a second. - You can wait here.
I'll go in. - Just stay right here.
- Roy, I'm going to go-- - Just listen to me.
- Roy, I want to eat. - Listen to me.
- Roy-- - I want you to trust me.
Just trust me.
Roy, take your hands off me, Roy.
Trust me. Just stay right here.
- Roy, take your hands-- - It's gonna start in a second.
I need you to take your hands off me.
Roy, I need-- - Just I'm trying to help you.
- Take your hands off me, Roy. - Just stop!
- Roy, I'm trying-- - Stop it.
It's starting--
Roy, I didn't come here for the fights!
Yes, you did!
I didn't come here for the fights, Roy.
[grumbling]
[screams] You're biting me!
Oh, I got to call you back.
Yeah.
Oh, this is going to go viral.
I'll kill you!
[theme music]
ANNOUNCER: Coming to you from Atlanta,
where the peach emoji doesn't only mean butt,
it's The Daily Show.
Tonight, it all comes down to Georgia,
on the hunt for free food, and Stacey Abrams.
This is The Daily Show with Trevor Noah.
[cheering]
What's going on, everybody?
How you doing?
We made it!
Thank you so much for coming out.
We're officially here. Take a seat.
Let's do this thing, everybody.
Take a seat.
What is happening, everybody?
I'm Trevor Noah.
Welcome to The Daily Show.
And not just any Daily Show, we're
coming to you from the Tabernacle Theater in Atlanta,
Georgia, everybody!
We made it!
We're here in Atlanta!
[cheering]
That's right, baby, A-town, Hotlanta, I love it.
Black Hollywood, the place with the realest housewives,
the lost city in the ocean-- no,
that's Atlantis, but still, same feeling.
We're here. Oh, and I can feel it.
You feel amazing.
[cheering]
This feels good.
This feels really good.
Oh, I'm excited for this. This is great.
We're going to be here all week.
All week, we're going to be here.
All right?
And if you're asking why, that's because, you know,
that's how long our layover is.
No, I'm joking.
I'm joking.
It's because Georgia is the epicenter of America's
elections right now, yeah?
Decided everything.
Decided the presidential race.
Now it could decide the midterms.
And I know.
I know there are a few other states.
I know there are.
But none of them have the best food, right?
[cheering]
So I'm loving the food out here.
Everything is extra.
I love it.
Yeah.
You got that Southern fried chicken.
You got that fried okra.
You got you got fried tomatoes.
Everything is fried.
Even some of your politicians' brains are fried.
I like that.
You went too far, but I like that.
The point is we're in Atlanta, and I'm
loving-- can I tell you?
I am loving every single moment out here, everything.
You know, like, yeah, the vibe is-- the vibe is different.
You got good people.
You got great music.
Everyone here is so polite as well.
Yeah.
Yeah, in New York, people are like, what
the [bleep] is wrong with you?
But here, everyone's just like, bless your heart.
[laughter]
Bless your heart.
And I know.
I know it means the same thing, but it feels different,
you know?
It feels completely different.
Oh, and can I just say-- can I just say--
one of the things I've been loving most about being here
is how Black it is.
[cheering]
What?
I landed in Atlanta.
I thought I flew back to South Africa by mistake.
I was like-- there's Black people everywhere.
It's like opposite Boston.
I've never been anywhere like this.
It's like, this is wild.
From the moment we land, like, the moment
I landed at the airport, it's just Black people everywhere.
Everyone was Black. You get in the car.
Your Uber driver is Black.
Everyone in the hotel was Black.
I get into the room.
I turn on the TV.
The news anchor is Black.
[cheering]
Throws to a Black weatherman, then crosses over to, like,
a Black sports reporter.
I walk into the bathroom. I look in the mirror.
That person is Black.
I was like, what?
[applause]
And you can feel it.
You can feel it in the city.
Because everyone complains, like,
oh, Atlanta has so much traffic, Trevor.
Have you felt the traffic?
Have you felt what it's like?
I have, but the Blackness changes that too.
This is the only city I've been to where
the traffic has rhythm.
[laughter]
You can feel the trap, even when you're
moving forward and back.
It's just like-- it's got like a little--
it's like a stop, and then it's go.
And then it's, like, stop, and then it's go.
And you're like, what?
Are we-- what's happening right here?
And you're like, oh, I'm going to change lanes.
I'm going to change lanes.
Like, oh, no, I'm going to go back to that lane.
You're like, oh, what's happening right now?
What kind of traffic is this?
Who's going to merge? You're going to merge here?
It's like, no, no, no, you're not going to let me merge.
Well, bless your heart, sir.
Bless your heart.
But, as I said-- as I said, the reason
we're here-- the real reason we're here
is because we wanted to feel what it's
like to be on the ground in a state
that everyone is looking to as election day
approaches-- everyone, right?
And you can feel it.
You can feel it.
I mean, you all live here.
You know what I'm talking about.
Like, you can't even forget election day is coming.
Every single ad-- every single ad
is political now-- every ad.
Every billboard is political.
Everything-- every flyer, every spam text that you get,
everything is political.
It's Halloween today.
I bumped into a kid on the street
dressed as Frankenstein.
I was like, hey, what are you doing?
He's like, the real monster is actually inflation.
[laughter]
This Three Musketeers feels like a Two Musketeers.
And as you know, there are two big races,
two major races that everybody's watching,
two major races.
First up, the governor's race, of course.
Yes.
[cheering]
With the seat currently occupied by Republican
Brian Kemp, who's leading in the polls right now.
[booing]
Oh, that-- is that for Halloween?
Is that why you're booing?
Is that what that is?
Yeah, and he's running on a platform
of making it harder to get an abortion
but easier to get a gun.
And despite his policies, Brian Kemp is seen as a moderate.
That's what I find really interesting,
yeah, all because-- all because he
refused to help Donald Trump overturn
the election, which is good.
Don't get me wrong, but that's how extreme politics
has gotten in America.
All right?
He's like, I don't think we should hang Mike Pence.
And people are like, wow, this guy's got some moderate views.
Yeah, he's a real moderate politician.
But, of course, the person trying
to stop Kemp from getting a second term
is the one and only Stacey Abrams.
[cheering]
Who-- who, by the way--
who, by the way, does it all.
She writes books.
She's a voting rights activist, who
played a big part in turning Georgia blue in 2020.
And-- and it turns out-- it turns out she even
has a budding acting career.
Today, we greet the president of United Earth.
Madam President.
Madam President, welcome.
I am so pleased that you've come.
OK, I see you, Ms. Abrams.
I see you.
Set phasers to cameo, hey!
It's great.
It's great to see that Stacey Abrams
has gone boldly where no one has gone before, Paramount+.
I like that.
Now we're going to be chatting to Ms. Abrams, right,
later on in the show.
So we'll get back to that.
But right now-- right now, let's focus on the Senate
showdown that has ramifications even beyond Georgia,
right/ And it's between it's between
Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock
and Republican candidate--
and the Republican candidate, Herschel Walker.
Yes.
[booing]
Now-- now Warnock's campaign is focused on abortion rights
and expanding infrastructure, all right?
But as election day gets closer,
I feel like his campaign ads are now more focused
on making sure that the race doesn't
go any longer than it has to.
Guess who's coming to Thanksgiving.
Mom, we brought a friend.
(TOGETHER) Rafael Warnock?
That's right.
I could be interrupting your Thanksgiving.
Because if nobody gets 50% of the vote,
there'll be a runoff, and nobody wants that to happen.
I'm Rafael Warnock, and we don't have to mix
politics and Thanksgiving.
That's why I approve this message.
Now can you pass the sweet potatoes, please?
[laughs]
[applause]
Can I just say, that is the most convincing
way to get people to vote.
If you don't vote, politicians are going to come
to your house and hang out.
Can you imagine politicians just
showing up on Thanksgiving?
Like, hi, I'm Herschel Walker.
It's like, oh, hi, Dad.
Uh, wrong house, wrong house.
[laughter]
And, by the way-- by the way, I really need to understand it.
What is going on in Georgia that Reverend
Raphael Warnock is neck and neck with Herschel Walker?
What is happening?
Like, I know-- I know Walker is all neck,
but what is happening?
Every second thing the man says turns out to be a lie, right?
He walks around with a fake police badge, yeah?
He pretended he was an FBI agent, right?
He claimed he was anti-abortion, even though he
apparently paid for one.
He claimed he had only one kid, even
though he has like a thousand.
Oh, and-- and he told people he graduated
in the top 1% of his class at the University of Georgia.
And then it turned out he never graduated at all-- at all.
Like, at this point, I want to meet
the Herschel Walker that Herschel Walker thinks he is.
[laughter]
Right?
Because at this point--
at this point, everything is-- like, he treats real life
the way we treat dating apps.
You know?
Just, like, in your profile like,
I'm one of the tallest people you'll ever meet.
I founded my own industry.
And my mom lives with me, not the other way around.
Yeah.
But the bigger thing about Herschel Walker for me
isn't all the lying and the hypocrisy.
He's also just weird.
He's a strange guy.
You know?
Like, and if you don't believe me-- if you don't believe me,
watch him give one of my favorite answers
ever in politics, right?
This is what he said when he was asked about the biggest
problem facing America today.
What do you see as some of the biggest problems
going on in our country today?
I think some of the biggest problems going on
in our country today, we have so many celebrities telling
people that they can't do it, telling a lot of people,
oh, you know, you can't do it.
Like, you got to feel bad for yourself.
Feel sorry for yourself, which is sad to me because--
That you're a victim.
--they've done it.
But they're telling you, you can't do it.
And just like, you did it.
Why they can't do it?
OK.
[laughter]
First of all, that was the sleepiest interview I--
I've ever seen.
[cheering]
It's li-- it's like if Ambien had a podcast.
[laughter]
What was that?
The only reason those two should be in the same room
is if Ben Carson is doing brain surgery on Herschel Walker.
There's no other reason they should
be talking to each other.
No, because I'm sorry. I'm sorry.
He says the biggest problem-- the biggest problem
that America is facing right now
is celebrities telling people they can't do it.
The biggest problem?
You think the average American right now is saying,
I know inflation is bad right now,
but the bigger issue is that Vin Diesel has never
told me to follow my dreams!
I could have owned a bakery by now!
Could have been baking for family.
And, look-- and, look, I get it.
I get it. All right?
Some people will be like, you're a celebrity.
You're not objective. Well, I guess so.
Maybe I'm missing something here, you know?
Maybe I am.
And so-- and so if I am, in case
I've been too discouraging to the American people,
let me say this.
[inspiring music]
In America, you can do anything,
just like Herschel Walker.
If you want to be an FBI agent, you claim you're an FBI agent.
If you want to graduate valedictorian,
just tell people that it happened because it did.
If you want to be the father of one
despite having fathered four, then, by god,
be the father of one despite having fathered four children.
That is the American way.
[cheering]
Point is there are many major races
that are going on this year, and they're really close.
You know this.
America knows this, right?
A week from now, Herschel Walker might
actually be claiming victory.
I mean, he'll be doing that no matter what.
But he could actually win for real.
And that's why with one week until the election,
the Democrats have pulled out the big guns.
Yeah, Netflix's very own Barack Obama.
[cheering]
This race is so important.
It even got Obama off the beach.
He was down here in Georgia over the weekend,
and he brought that Obama swag with him.
Some of you may not remember, but Herschel Walker was
a heck of a football player.
But-- but here's the question.
Does that make him equipped to weigh
in on the critical decisions about our economy
and our foreign policy and our future?
Let's do a thought experiment.
Let's say you're at the airport,
and you see Mr. Walker.
And you say, hey, there's Herschel
Walker, Heisman winner.
Let's have him fly the plane.
[laughter]
You'd want to know, does he know how to fly an airplane?
Wow.
Wow, really?
[applause]
Rarely, President Obama?
Really?
You're going to say that about a man who graduated
in the top 1% of pilot school?
How dare you!
(IMITATING WALKER) A lot of people
don't know this about me, Hershel, but I was in Top Gun.
That movie was about me.
My name in the '80s was Pete Maverick.
I love how Obama roasts you with, like,
that signature swag.
He makes it sound so polite, but he's
roasting the shit out of you.
(IMITATING OBAMA) The last time I checked,
you didn't have any brains.
[laughter]
But it was fun.
It was fun to see Obama at it again, wasn't it?
People always love seeing him come out.
Gets the crowd fired up, gets everybody excited.
You know?
That's what you get from him in a race.
That's why they don't send Joe Biden.
You don't get the same thing from him.
It's true.
Joe Biden wants to do it.
He's always like, (IMITATING BIDEN) I'll go give a speech.
And everyone's like, no, no, please, sir, please.
You're needed in Washington.
There's a 1,000-piece puzzle we need your help on.
You go on. You go on, sir.
And he's like, (IMITATING BIDEN)
I used to know a guy named Puzzle.
Yes, you did, sir. Yes, you did.
Go on.
You just solve that, sir.
So at the end of the day, it's all going
to come down to the votes. All right?
Who votes? Who doesn't?
Which is going to be a little bit harder.
I don't need to tell you this, but you know this.
Because last year Georgia State Republicans passed a very
controversial bill, right?
It was a law, SB-202, which creates an all kinds
of new obstacles to voting-- fewer drop boxes,
shorter absentee voting windows,
and it's even illegal to hand water
to people waiting in line.
Yeah.
I mean, luckily, you can still hand
out Dasani because legally that's considered sewage.
But at that point, many people would rather die of thirst.
Now Georgia Republicans claim that this bill
was about voter fraud.
But we all know the real motivation, right?
Yeah, they say it's about fraud, right?
Was about trying to suppress the voter turnout.
We get it. We get it.
I mean, because at some point, they even tried to limit
early voting on a Sunday.
Why Sunday?
We know why, because of Souls to the Polls, right?
You have an organization that makes sure
that they get people going straight from church
on a Sunday to go and vote.
And I've got to say, that's particularly messed up.
How are you going to take that away?
Sunday voting was the one day when Black church was
only 5 hours instead of 10.
[laughter]
But can I tell you what I've loved
about being here in Georgia is watching the news
and realizing that the voter suppression
strategy might have backfired.
Because it turns out--
it turns out all these new restrictions
are just motivating Georgians to vote even harder.
Georgia continues to see a record turnout
for early voters in a midterm.
So far, more than 1.6 million people have already
cast their votes in Georgia.
And election officials expect that number to surpass
the 2 million mark this week.
I think a lot of people are really motivated for a bunch
of different reasons.
And I think democracy is definitely
going to be on the table.
People have fought for us to have the right to vote.
So we are persistent about coming to vote early.
A lot of people lost their lives
for us to have that privilege to come
out and voice our opinion.
I would have came out if it was snow on the ground.
I would have came out to vote.
That stuff is important.
Yeah, that's right.
That's right.
The voter suppression people thought that they
could stifle the vote.
But all they've done is motivate people
to vote earlier than ever.
And let me tell you something.
That's how you know-- that's when you know you've messed up
and you've made Black people angry,
when we arrive early to some shit.
That's when you know some shit's about to go down.
When Black people, like, hey--
hey, man, you're only supposed to get here at 12:00
and say 11:30.
It's like, yeah, but we need to handle some shit first.
Why are you early?
You about to find out.
But I just wanted to remind you,
whether it's early voting or waiting in line or mailing
in your ballots, everyone here in Georgia
needs to get out there and play their part.
[cheering]
Everyone's going to play their part, including myself--
including myself because, as a celebrity, I need to tell you,
you can do it.
You get out there and you vote early,
or you vote on election day.
You bring your own water.
And if the lines are long, you stay in that line.
Because if you don't, Raphael Warnock's
going to come straight to your house,
and he's coming for those sweet potatoes.
[laughter]
All right, let's take a break, everybody.
When we come back, we're going to be checking out some
of Atlanta's hottest sites.
You don't want to miss it.
The Daily Show is in Atlanta, people!
We made it!
[cheering]
We're here.
[applause]
Welcome back to The Daily Show,
coming to you all the way from Atlanta this week.
That's where we're going to be, everybody,
that's where we are right now.
That's what you're feeling.
Now, we might be in Atlanta, but the people
watching this at home are not.
So we sent our very own Michael Kosta out into the city
to show America what Atlanta has to offer.
Hi, I'm Michael Kosta, here in Atlanta
to show you the places that the guidebooks won't take you.
[grunts]
Can you get a skinnier guidebook?
First stop on my Atlanta Buckhead list,
the one and only Trap Museum.
So what is the Trap Museum?
Trap Music Museum, actually.
Trap Music Museum.
Yes.
I was thinking it was like holes in the ground
and spikes coming out.
No.
You know, Indiana Jones stuff.
I don't need this flashlight and skeleton key?
You don't need that at all actually.
K.G. Educated me on the forefathers of trap.
Loved by their fans and hated by the DEA.
TI, a.k.a.
T.I.P., Gucci Mane, and my personal fave, Jeezy.
Ah?
Yeah.
Uh, don't touch.
Sorry, my bad.
Just, I see Coke and I get all excited.
So Jeezy is known as The Snowman
and, of course, these are bricks.
For my white people, snowman is cocaine man.
And this bricks, this is cocaine?
I think white people know about cocaine.
What do these pictures look like to you?
Is this a trap for me?
I mean, they look like mug shots, but is that?
Yes, it is.
OK.
Good job, good job.
I am, I am, I am on a balance beam.
So the goal of this piece, it's, they did what they had
to do to come out of the circumstances,
but it led into multi-million dollar businesses.
Yeah.
Makes you feel something when you see a mug shot.
Martin Luther King had mug shot.
Don't Google if Michael Kosta does.
So these are the trap commandments.
Yeah, OK.
And there's 10 of them.
I try to live my life very much
like trap Commandment VII.
Peep [bleep] shit from miles away.
That crap ain't 'bout nothing!
I mean, that's truly how I've organized my career.
Really?
When I think of you, I think of trap Commandment number III.
Never go to sleep around a stripper.
Yeah.
Yeah, no, that is good.
That was good advice.
Brings us to our next destination,
Magic City, home of Atlanta's finest lemon pepper wings.
And no, that's not a euphemism.
The lemon pepper wings are a staple of Atlanta flavor.
Lemon pepper Lou is a staple of Magic City.
Wow.
These wings are amazing.
The wings haven't got here yet, Mike.
Oh, OK.
Once I tasted them things, I knew why people preferred
wings over breasts and thighs.
That's a delicious wing.
Mmm.
Would you like a wing or not while you're working?
So I ended up staying a while to try every flavor.
Sorry, there's some lemon pepper sauce on the money.
Unfortunately, I had so much fun that evening that I broke
trap Commandment number III.
And then it was time to stumble to my next destination,
The Grocery Spot.
This is the supreme of grocery stores.
There's a line around the block.
Let's go check it out, follow me.
- Do you have a number? - What?
I just--
Do you have a number?
I got, I'm on TV, I'm a celebrity.
If you don't have a number, you got to go to the back.
What is?
The Grocery Spot is the brainchild of local hipster,
Matthew Jones.
And it's not your grandma's grocery store.
Featuring street art, a DJ, and a line around the block,
I knew I'd have to blend in with these Atlanta scenesters
to get past the bouncer.
But once I got inside, I was surprised to find
just a regular store.
I don't get it.
It's just people buying groceries.
Just pretend you get it.
Just pretend I get it for camera.
OK.
As you can see, behind me, there
is no explanation needed.
This place is popular for obvious reasons.
And if you don't get it, well, then you're [bleep] dumb.
But then I noticed something odd.
People were taking food and just
walking out without paying.
So after stuffing a few essentials in my pockets,
I went to warn the owner.
You got to do an Undercover Boss here, man.
Like people are just walking out with their food.
Yeah.
You know, she just took $1 and the guy
had a full bag of food.
Yeah, that's how it works here.
They don't even have to give $1.
It's all free. It's what we do.
What?
The business model is to feed people for free.
We're going to give it to you.
Wow.
It's Atlanta's own only free sustainable grocery store,
and we feed around 400 people per day three days a week.
What inspired you to do something so stupid?
We tried for profit and it failed terribly.
So then we learned what mutual aid was.
Matthew explained how his pay what you can model
was a response to Atlanta's problems with food insecurity.
No, it's not when your little sandwich feels pathetic
next to that giant hoagie.
It's people who aren't starving,
but are still struggling to get enough food
to feed their families.
Our demographic is the working class family,
the people who make too much to have help and government
resources, but don't make enough to actually
make it on their own.
OK, well, I guess I'm glad I'm here, because I can really
advise you on how to turn this place into a profitable
grocery store.
I don't think you understand how non-profits work,
but that's OK.
First taste is free, second taste, third, fourth, fifth,
but then like once people get hooked,
that's when you flip the script and start
hitting them with the price?
Well, hopefully, right?
Eventually, the goal would be to where
you could pay for your own groceries
and help feed another family.
Shh.
Stupid.
What about turning this thing into a strip club?
I mean, if there's one thing Atlanta's taught me,
anywhere can be a strip club.
No.
So what do the customers think of my bold new ideas?
Look, the food is free, but it's
$40 bucks to get in the door.
No, man.
What if he just puts big price tags on each item.
That way, the rich people have to pay.
No.
What if it's like a $50 tote bag, but it's artisanal
and it's cool, and then like, people could buy the tote bag.
Why would we want to do that?
Because totes are [bleep] sweet?
But these folks did agree on one thing.
The store has changed their lives.
You have to travel like far to get fresh fruits,
fresh vegetables, fresh meats.
Now, it's convenient for the neighborhood.
Man, this is not a business, this is the community.
Spiritual, 100%.
Suddenly, this $0-making business didn't sound
like such a bad idea.
I'm inspired by your story and the story of The Grocery Spot.
So I would like to pay what I can.
Check.
Thank you very much, man.
Please act blown away, like I wrote you a check
for a massive amount of money.
Come on, dude, don't.
Just, just, just don't read it, just have it.
Thank you so much for that, Michael Kosta.
All right, stay tuned, because if we come back,
Stacey Abrams will be our guest.
You don't want to miss it.
[cheering]
Welcome back to "The Daily Show."
My guest tonight is a voting rights activist
and entrepreneur, who is the Democratic nominee
for Georgia's governor.
Please welcome Stacey Abrams.
[music playing and cheering]
Stacey Abrams, welcome back.
Welcome back.
Thank you.
I mean, this is strange because it's the fourth time
that we're chatting.
This is the first time I'm chatting
in your neck of the woods. - Yes.
Welcome.
It's the final stage of the race.
Yes.
It's been a particularly interesting race,
so let's start with this.
I know what your profile and your image
is in most parts of America.
Coming to Georgia has been really interesting
because every ad that I watch makes it seem like you
are a very evil person.
[laughter]
Well, my parents were surprised to learn
that I was responsible for the kidnapping
of the Lindbergh baby.
I know where Hoffa's body is buried.
And I may have stolen something backstage.
That wasn't in an ad, but OK, I'm going to check that.
It feels ridiculous.
It feels like people don't believe it.
It feels-- but it really feels like the campaign against you
has been particularly personal.
It's been particularly vile.
Part of standing for office is you know people
are going to attack you. TREVOR NOAH: Uh-huh.
You can either internalize the attacks,
or you can use it as fuel to remind you of why you're
doing this every single day.
And--
[applause]
These are real people with real lives.
And yeah, Brian Kemp wants to say vile things about me.
My daddy's watching, and I'm going to tell.
[laughter]
You-- you're in this race.
You're trying to position yourself as somebody
who can move Georgia forward.
One thing that has particularly overshadowed your campaign,
though, is how national politics has started to infect
state level politics.
So I would love to know, how do you distinguish
yourself as Stacey Abrams?
And how do you speak to people from under the shadow
of them saying, Joe Biden?
Because again, half of the ads are
not about you, funny enough.
It's Joe Biden's economy, Joe Biden's inflation.
Stacey Abrams is Joe Biden.
And so when you speak to people,
that's literally what one of the ads says.
It says, Stacey Abrams is Joe Biden.
How do you get out from under that,
and what do you think people need to understand that does
separate you, funny enough, from Joe
Biden/the national agenda?
Well, first of all, people remember who was in the office
before Joe Biden.
And they're very happy he's gone.
Number two, the money that has come to Georgia,
the resources that have come to Georgia,
the billions of dollars that have kept the state afloat,
came because of federal Democrats, not because
of the current governor.
Hardworking Georgians did this.
And I remind them of that.
But it's also Brian Kemp banned abortion.
He banned background checks.
He banned children.
He banned books.
He banned the truth.
And he intends to go further if he gets re-elected,
reminding women that you do not have the right
to control your bodies.
But Herschel Walker can do whatever he wants.
Brian Kemp's good with that.
But if you're a woman, he believes
he should control who you are.
He made-- he flooded our streets with guns.
And there is a story about gun violence every day in Georgia.
Right.
And so part of it is just reminding
people of his record.
Well, he's been governor for four years.
I haven't. He made sure of that.
So if you're the governor, you don't get to take credit,
but not take responsibility.
And that's how we frame it.
[applause]
It is going to be a hotly contested race.
Oh, yes.
There are going to be stories coming out about poll stations
that closed when they shouldn't have
and people who are kicked out of lines,
and purging, et cetera, et cetera.
What it creates is a really paradoxical world
where on the one hand, you want to call out election processes
that aren't fair and make it as easy as
possible for people to vote.
On the other hand, people will be quick to turn that on you
and say, oh, but if Trump doesn't accept the election,
then he's bad.
But you also don't accept the election, so you're bad.
How do you navigate that?
And how do you speak to the issues
around voting in Georgia without making
it seem like you don't accept the Democratic process?
You've actually done a great job of this.
But some of your colleagues have been very
easily duped into conflation.
There is one thing to be used to winning everything you want
and being told no and whining about it,
inciting insurrection.
That's what Donald Trump did.
Donald Trump denied the outcome of an election.
I know I'm not governor.
I haven't been governor for four whole years.
I have been very clear about that.
That's how I got to go on Star Trek.
[laughter]
[applause]
But what I have always fought for, and it's--
I mean, you can go back.
I was on the March on Washington
when I was 19, so this is--
I've got a pretty clear track record on this.
Voting rights, voting access, is about who gets to show up.
Election outcomes, that's up to the voters.
But access is the responsibility of government.
And Brian Kemp's greatest hits--
Brian Kemp is the architect of voter suppression.
And the reality is they try to stop us
from talking about the access so they can
gin up the outcome they want.
And what I will never stop talking about
is the fact that no American, no Georgian,
should be denied access if they are legally eligible.
And there is no amount of kvetching and blaming
and conflation and false equivalence that will ever
make me say that it is OK to tell a Georgian,
you don't have the right to be heard.
That is not right, and it will not happen
as long as I've got breath.
[cheering and applause]
I'll just say, the website is long.
Your answers are pretty conclusive.
And I see why you have the support that you do,
Stacey Abrams.
Thank you so much for joining me on the show again.
Thank you. [cheering, applause]
Wonderful having you.
Stacey Abrams, everybody.
We're going to take a quick break.
We'll be right back after this.
[cheering and applause]
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Well, that's our show for tonight.
Thank you so much for tuning in.
Thank you for coming out in person and kicking it off.
Before we go-- before we go, I wanted to remind you,
the midterm elections are approaching
and the stakes are higher than they've been in generations.
So make sure your voice counts.
Make a plan to vote early.
VoteEarly.org.
Until next time, stay safe out there.
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