>> Dana: ANOTHER CLOSE MATCH TO
WATCH GEORGIA, BETWEEN BRIAN
KEMP AND STACEY ABRAMS.
RECENT POLLS SHOW KEMP WITH A
THREE-POINT ADVANTAGE WITHIN
THE MARGIN OF ERROR.
ABRAMS SAYS SHE NEEDS
OVERWHELMING SUPPORT
PARTICULARLY FROM BLACK MALE
VOTERS TO CLOSE THE GAP.
LET’S BRING IN RICHARD FOWLER,
FOX NEWS CONTRIBUTOR.
HE RECENTLY INTERVIEWED ABRAMS
AND A SPOKESMAN FOR GOVERNOR
DIEHL.
>> YOU HAD A CHANCE TO TALK TO
HER YESTERDAY.
HER NEED TO ATTRACT MORE BLACK
MALE VOTES.
THE FOX NEWS SURVEY BLACK
VOTERS SUPPORTING STACEY ABRAMS
WAS 98% AND NOW 78%.
SHE SAID WE NEED TO SAY BLACK
MEN COUNT AND WE NEED THEIR
ENGAGEMENT IN ORDER TO WIN AN
ELECTION.
THE ISSUE IS VOTE SHARE.
WHEN BLACK MEN VOTE THEY VOTE
FOR ME.
WHAT ELSE DID YOU LEARN
YESTERDAY?
>> IT WAS A WIDE RANGING
INTERVIEW.
LISTEN, I THINK THE MINORITY
LEADER ACKNOWLEDGES THAT SHE IS
BEHIND IN THE POLLS.
SHE POINTS TO INCUMBENCY AS
PART OF THE PROBLEM.
ALL POINTING TO THE FACT SHE IS
NOT LOOKING AT THE POLLS.
SHE IS TRYING TO BUILD A NEW
ELECTORATE.
SHE ACKNOWLEDGES THERE IS A
LONG WAY TO GO BUT SHE IS
CREATING THE LARGEST VOTER
OUTREACH CAMPAIGN EVER AND
REALLY TRYING TO RECREATE THE
BIDEN COALITION.
IT IS WORTH POINTING OUT IN
2020 HER NONPROFIT FAIR FIGHT
WAS PART OF THE BUILDING BLOCKS
AND THE CORNERSTONE OF THE
BIDEN COALITION IN GEORGIA AND
TRYING TO REBUILD THAT AND TRY
TO MAKE IT STRONGER THAN EVER
TO HOPEFULLY GET HER OVER THE
HUMP IN A POTENTIAL DEFENSE
AGAINST BRIAN DEFRM AND ALSO
POINTED TO A LAUNDRY LIST OF
ISSUES THAT SHE WILL ATTACK THE
GOVERNOR ON.
ONE FOR THE PAST EIGHT YEARS IN
THE STATE OF GEORGIA 14
HOSPITAL CLOSURES, SIX OF THEM
HAVE HAPPENED UNDER THE TENURE
OF BRIAN KEMP.
THAT’S PART OF THE REASON WHY
THERE IS A LOT OF DISMAL HEALTH
STATS IN THE STATE OF GEORGIA.
>> Dana: BRIAN, LET ME GO TO
YOU.
SHE MIGHT HAVE A FORMIDABLE
OUTREACH CAMPAIGN AND THAT’S
TRUE.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT GOVERNOR
KEMP SAID LAST WEEK A LOT OF
THAT SUPPORT IS NOT COMING FROM
WITHIN GEORGIA AND IF YOU WANT
TO WIN STATEWIDE YOU HAVE TO
WIN IN THE STATE.
>> YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
BEYOND THAT, SHE IS OUT IN THE
PAST WEEK DOING EVENTS WITH
BLACK MALE VOTERS INCLUDING AN
EVENT ON FRIDAY WHERE ON THE
STAGE WITH HER WAS SOMEONE WHO
WAS A RAPPER IN A WELL-KNOWN
CRIMINAL GANG HERE IN ATLANTA.
THAT WILL HURT HER BUILDING THE
REST OF THE COALITION THAT SHE
REALLY NEEDS TO HAVE TO WIN.
IF SHE IS OUT HAVING TO COURT
MEMBERS OF HER BASE, YOU HAVE
TO ASSUME BOTH BLACK MALE
VOTERS WOULD BE SHE IS
CAMPAIGNING OF A POSITION OF
REAL WEAKNESS HERE AND NEEDS TO
FOCUS ON ATLANTA AND THE
NORTHERN SUBURBS.
RECAPTURE SOME OF THOSE HIGHLY
EDUCATED MORE AFFLUENT WHITE
VOTERS MANY LOOKED TO HER IN
2018.
A LOT OF THOSE FOLKS ARE
UNHAPPY WITH BIDEN OR THE
DIRECTION OF THE COUNTRY AND
SOME OF THE LUSTER HAS WORN OFF
OF STACEY ABRAMS’ STAR.
THOSE PEOPLE, THAT GROUP OF
VOTERS ARE THE ONES WHO HAVE
PUT HER OVER THE TOP AND RIGHT
NOW SHE IS NOT FOCUSING ON THEM.
>> Dana: THERE IS AN OP-ED IN
THE "NEW YORK TIMES" HEADLINE,
DEMOCRATS BLACK MALE VOTERS
PROBLEMS, THE TREND APPEARS TO
BE BIGGER THAN JUST GEORGIA.
WE’VE SEEN A SIMILAR THING
BETWEEN BLACK MEN AND WOMEN’S
VOTES ON THE NATIONAL STAGE.
IT SHOULD BE NOTED BLACK MEN
VOTE DEMOCRATIC AT A HIGHER
RATE THAN OTHER MEN BUT THE
SLIPPAGE IS CONCERNING FOR
DEMOCRATS.
IF YOU WERE TO ANALYZE, COULD
YOU POINT TO A COUPLE OF THE
ISSUES THAT IS THE RESULT OF
THESE SLIPPAGE IN SUPPORT.
>> THERE IS NO QUESTION I THINK
THERE IS A SLIPPAGE IN SUPPORT.
IN 2020 WE SAW THE TRUMP
CAMPAIGN GAIN DOUBLE DIGITS
AMONG BLACK MEN.
WE TALKED TO A POLLSTER AND HE
ACKNOWLEDGES THAT PART OF THE
REASON FOR THAT IS EVERYTHING
TO DO WITH THE FACT THE
DEMOCRATIC PARTY HAS BLINDS
WHEN IT COMES TO BLACK MEN.
STACEY ABRAMS IS TRYING TO DO
AS WELL AS TEAMING UP WITH
WARNOCK, THE SENATOR FROM THAT
STATE, THEY’RE TRYING TO MAKE
INROADS IN THE COMMUNITY
TALKING ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT
CONCERN THEM.
A COUPLE OF THOSE ISSUES IS
ONE, DEALING WITH ACCESS TO
HIGHER EDUCATION AND TECHNICAL
COLLEGES.
TWO, ACCESS IN CAPITAL.
SO MANY AFRICAN-AMERICAN MEN
TRYING TO START BUSINESSES AND
SHE WANTS TO CREATE A $10
MILLION CAPITAL CAMPAIGN TO
REACH THOSE VOTERS.
IT IS WORTH POINTING OUT IN THE
2020 RUNOFF RACE WHERE WE SAY
THE GAINS FOR WARNOCK AND
OSSOFF WAS IN ATLANTA AND THE
ATLANTA SUBURBS DUE TO
AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOTERS WHY SHE
IS SPENDING SO MUCH TIME AND
ATTENTION TRYING TO GET THEM
BACK OUT AGAIN.
>> Dana: BRIAN, IF THERE IS
SLIPPAGE FOR HER WITH BLACK MEN
IN GEORGIA, ARE REPUBLICANS
ABLE TO WIN THEIR VOTE OR ARE
THEY JUST NOT VOTING AT ALL?
>> IT’S A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH.
I TELL YOU THIS, BRIAN KEMP
WILL BREAK INTO THAT COALITION.
HE HAS BEEN VERY INTENTIONAL
ABOUT NOMINATING BLACK MALES
AND WOMEN TO STATE BOARDS AND
PUTTING THEM INTO POSITIONS OF
POLITICAL OFFICE WHEN THERE IS
AN OPENING.
HE HAS BEEN VERY PURPOSEFUL IN
DIVERSE FILING THE PICKS AS HAS
HAPPENED IN THE LAST WITH
REPUBLICAN GOVERNORS.
HE HAS MADE A REAL EFFORT.