>> GOP has grown saltier as
the public succeeds in pressuring
more and more companies and
corporations to speak out against
Georgia's voter suppression law.
Now Georgia governor Brian Kemp
isn't too happy about the fact that
the MLB for instance is moving its
all-star game out of the state.
He explains why in this next clip
let's see if he has a case.
>> Yesterday Major League Baseball
cave to fear and
lies from liberal activists.
They ignored the facts of our new
election integrity law, and they
ignored the consequences of their
decision on our local community.
In the middle of a pandemic,
Major League Baseball put
the wishes of Stacey Abrams and
Joe Biden ahead of the economic
well being of hardworking Georgians
who were counting on all star game
for a paycheck.
Georgians and all Americans should
know what this decision means.
It means cancel culture and
partisan activists are coming for
your business.
They're coming for your game or
event in your hometown and
they're coming to cancel everything
from sports to how you make
a living and they will stop at
nothing to silence all of us.
I want to be clear.
I will not be backing down from
this fight.
And neither are the people who
are here with me today.
We will.
[APPLAUSE] >> We will not be
intimidated and
we will also not be silenced.
Major League Baseball,
Coca Cola and Delta may be scary to
Stacey Abrams, Joe Biden and
the left but I am not and
we are not.
[APPLAUSE] >> I mean
it's really in the Republicans best
interest to pretend like they're
unafraid and not intimidated in any
way by potential boycotts.
>> Because really when you look at
the fact that the Republican Party
is unwilling to take a good hard
look at its own platform and
how unpopular it is.
And instead,
their political survival is just
going to rely on them rigging
the system to their advantage.
Yeah, they're going to keep
fighting this they're going to
continue trying to intimidate
anyone who dare criticize the law
or dare to boycott the state as
a result of the suppression laws.
But make no mistake about it.
Despite what GOP lawmakers or
talking heads would have you
believe, this is by far one of
the most ridiculous and
severe voter suppression laws, and
they keep arguing about how it
actually expands voting.
But it expands voting in very
specific parts of Georgia,
while really restricting and
limiting voting,
making it far more difficult to
vote in parts of the state that
are predominantly African American.
So I'll give you all of those
details in just a minute.
But that's the growing talking
point, Francesca that we're hearing
right now that this is
really a voter expansion bill.
Or law at this point.
>> Yeah, exactly.
I would like I'm surprised he
didn't just bring up like Mr.
And Mrs. Potato head and have them
sort of voice that we still want to
be in Atlanta, we love Georgia.
Hey, what up some whatever like
that's the level of sense that camp
is making this is a guy who rigged
his own election for
governor while he was Secretary of
State overseeing that election,
robbing Stacey Abrams, and
then turns around and
takes away that electoral oversight
from the current Secretary of State
and hands it to Republican state
legislators.
This is a guy who has rigged
the entire system in Georgia for
himself.
He has personally cancelled
the votes of many black and
Latino Georgians who stood in line
to cast their ballot for
Stacey Abrams in 2018 and
were not able to do so because of
how few polling places there were.
So talking about cancelled culture,
let us just untie and
untwist this BS not that they're
trying to craft here.
They are canceling democracy in
Georgia and we can talk about the
strategies for trying to undo that.
But yes,
they want a nonsensical discussion.
>> Exactly, and I think what
they're concerned about following
the MLBs decision is that it would
lead to some sort of domino effect
with other Georgia-based companies,
maybe moving business out
of town out of state.
I think that that's unlikely to
happen and we're going to ask you
about it in one of our polls,
but first,
let me give you some more details.
I want to make the case so
obviously, Kemp is
not the only Republican who has
spoken out against the MLB.
You also have chris Christie,
the disgraced former governor of
New Jersey, a man who has been
wrapped up in his own scandals,
someone who has no business opining
on any political issue as if he's
a legitimate person to hear
an opinion from, but nonetheless,
he's upset at the way that this
legislation or this now law is
being portrayed in the press and by
people like Joe Biden, let's watch.
>> Was this the right move for
the MLB?
>> This is just a symptom.
George, it's a symptom of what's
going on in our country right now.
I sat here and listened to
the president's inaugural address.
And I just want a couple of real
quick points from it.
Politics need not be a raging fire
that destroys everything
in its path.
Every disagreement this has to be
a cause for total war.
And we must reject the culture
in which facts themselves
are manipulated or made up.
And Joe Biden's broken his own rule
84 days, and now he's minds
the American people, George.
He's lying about this bill.
He's lying to the American people
about it to cause the raging fire
he said he was going to put out.
I'm very disappointed.
>> He's very disappointed
Francesca, he's very disappointed
because it turns out that this is
actually a great law that no
expands voting for white rural
voters in the state of Georgia.
And I think it's really important
to give you guys this detail
because It's a growing narrative
that seems to go unchallenged for
the most part.
In fact, what you're likely to hear
conservatives argue is that there
was some real fact checking taking
place over at the Washington Post.
Suddenly they're big fans of
the Washington Post.
And so I was like, well,
maybe there's something that I was
misled about.
I don't want to spread
misinformation to our audience.
I want to make sure that
I'm correct.
And so I went in and took a look at
that Washington Post article
that they were talking about.
I'm going to read you a few
excerpts of it right now.
So here we go.
This is from Peter Stephenson
Washington Post, who writes a close
examination of the language in
the laws shows it does contain new
restrictions on voting.
Some are likely to make it
disproportionately more difficult
for poor voters and voters of color
to cast their ballots.
So let's give you some specific
details.
The Hill reports that in the 2020
election where there was no voter
fraud, by the way, there were 94
drop boxes for ballots across
the four counties that make up
the Atlanta metropolitan area.
Well, the new law limits,
the same counties to a total number
of 23 drop boxes in the future.
So 23 drop boxes might not sound
like that little, right?
Maybe, that's enough,
except we're talking About the most
populous part of Georgia.
So clearly they had the 94 drop
boxes for a reason, severely
limiting the number of drop boxes
in the most populous part of
the state where you have a higher
percentage of black voters is
obviously sending a message here.
Voters will have less time to
request absentee ballots there will
be strict new identification
requirements for absentee ballots.
And while early voting
will be expanded in some
of these small counties,
it won't be in more populous ones,
rather than allowing voters for
instance to request ballots six
months from election day,
the new law says voters can start
requesting ballots 70 days 78 days
out, counties can begin sending
ballots to voters just 29 days
before election day rather
than the previous 49 days.
Which by the way is actually pretty
serious because critics say any
mail delays with these shorter
periods could lead to voters not
getting ballots on time or not
being able to return them in time.
I mean, the list goes on and on.
I'm not even done.
I just don't want to go on
a lengthy rant where I'm just
reading graphics about how awful
this legislation was.
But it's awful.
The fact that it's now law
is awful.
They took out the provision
regarding souls to polls, where
they would prevent people from
voting on Sundays after church.
Obviously that was meant to
target African American voters but
don't get it twisted.
The final version of that
legislation that was signed
into law is.
Is horrendous, and is specifically
trying to rig the election to
the Republicans' advantage.
I'll give you more details if you
want Francesca, but
I do want to hear more from you.
>> Yeah, I mean it's so bald faced.
I don't understand, we have to
understand that all of this is
a distraction, talking about
canceled culture and all of that
it's a complete distraction from
the fact that they're still mad
that they lost in the 2020 election
that they sent two terrible
candidates to go up against two
Democrats in the Senate.
And they flip the senate blue and
the state went blue itself.
To Joe Biden that's what they're
mad about.
That's it.
And, I just want to mention just
something about the corporations,
Coca Cola and
Delta are not heroes here.
Okay? >> No. >> Corporation they
are never the heroes.
Exactly.
What corporations are,
are the middle east of the road
skewing conservative.
They are a conservative
middle-of-the-road barometer of
what they think is safe or
not safe for making money.
Straight up they've never been on
the forefront of history.
In fact, the only reason that Delta
and Coca Cola even issued those
statements was because
I think something like 75 black
business leaders are, called upon
them to say something and to do
something they weren't going to.
And then they made a statement,
which is like not even a big
deal kind of a toothless thing.
But so once again,
situate the Republican Party in
the year 2021 with all of these
nationalist fascist tendencies.
Next to corporations was once again
the moderate conservative line.
And there's this entire gulf where
you realize these Republicans
are on so
much not that just the wrong side
of history in the year 2021 but
the wrong side History in the year
1945, right like there's so
behind and so once again, these
guys are not our saviors but to
get mad at their statements because
they believe in people voting.
Woof that says a lot about you.
>> Yeah, and I, look, there has
been growing calls for companies
that are based in Georgia to say
something right to speak out.
And look, some of them,
yes have spoken out.
Coca-cola has spoken out Delta has
spoken out, there has been a long
list of companies that have been
willing to pay lip service
to the concerns of those who are
watching our democracy deteriorate
right before our very eyes.
But remember, these are also
companies who have been part and
parcel of the legalized bribery and
corruption that undermines
democracy.
So to think that they're
going to save us,
I think is incredibly naive.
I would be a little more, I guess,
open to what they're saying if
they were actually
putting action behind those words.
Now, the MLB did but,
remember the MLB is not
headquartered in Georgia.
They're just moving their All Star
game and I commend them for
that that was a good move.
However, it's something entirely
different for a Georgia based
company like Coca Cola to literally
get up and leave.
And I don't want the people
of Georgia to suffer but
my point here is talk is cheap and
if that's all you're looking for,
if you're looking for a company or
CEO To pay lip service.
All right, you might get it, but
that's not really going to
change anything.
>> Absolutely.
And it's a good debate, right?
Mara's on one side saying yes to
boycotts.
They've worked in the past.
I mean, in fact,
speaking of the South, right?
This is the legacy of boycotts in
the legacy of the civil rights
movement go hand in hand, and then
you have Stacey Abrams who's like,
no, stay and fight.
And you can sort of make
an argument for both.
As someone who feels like Georgia,
and this is not from a crass
political point, but Georgia is in
play, Georgia flipped blue and
because of a lot of people fighting
so there is a huge argument to make
for people to fight.
An for people to fight on a local
level because if the state
legislature weren't in republican
hands we'd be in a different
situation right now.
So it's hard to know what to
do because I mean Georgians,
I think Georgia republicans
are going to miss the jobs.
But they don't care, I mean maybe
they're more Amazon warehouses will
come in and they can just race to
the bottom, maybe who knows?
They have such little respect for
their citizens,
that you're I don't want to leave
them to the wolves that's not to
say Delta is a beautiful employer,
[LAUGH] that's not right.
>> Right, and we want to hear
what you guys think.
So we do have a poll on this.
I'm really curious what you
guys predict will happen.
Will Atlanta based companies like
Delta and Coca Cola actually move
their business out of state?
And you got two options
there, yes or no.
Go to TYT.comm/polls to
participate.
Can't wait to hear what you guys
have to say.