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LARRY: WELL, HERE’S ONE FOR THE
BOOKS, DEMOCRAT STACEY ABRAMS,
WHO IS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR OF
GEORGIA, SAYS GEORGIA IS THE
WORST STATE TO LIVE IN.
I THINK I KNOW SOMEBODY THAT IS
GOING TO DISAGREE WITH THAT,
WILL JOIN US NOW.
BRING BACK GEORGIA GOVERNOR
BRIAN KEMP.
FIRST OF ALL WELCOME BACK TO THE
SHOW.
SECOND OF ALL, CONGRATULATIONS
ON YOUR PRIMARY VICTORY, SIR.
WORST STATE TO LIVE IN, REALLY,
IS THAT WHAT SHE IS RUNNING ON?
>> YEAH.
IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE SHE SAID
THAT, LARRY.
I GUESS SHE BELIEVES IT.
I CERTAINLY DON’T.
MARTI AROUND GIRLS THINK WE ARE
LIVE IN THE GREATEST STATE IN
THE COUNTRY TO WORK, LIVE, RAISE
YOUR FAMILIES.
WE’RE WORKING HARD EVERY DAY TO
FIGHT 40-YEAR HIGH ABRAMS,
BIDEN, EMBRACED, HELPED
JOE BIDEN GET ELECTED.
THAT IS WHAT IT IS GETTING US.
I DON’T THINK GEORGIANS ARE NOT
TOO HAPPY NOW.
I KNOW THEY’RE NOT GOING TO THE
GAS PUMP, GOING TO THE GROCERY
STORE.
LARRY: TALKING TO MY PAL STEVE
MOORE, WHO I ALSO THINK YOU
KNOW, YOU’VE BEEN A TAX CUTTER.
YOU TRIGGERED A FLAT TAX IN
GEORGIA.
I BELIEVE THE GEORGIA STATE
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE IS ACTUALLY
BELOW THE NATIONAL RATE WHICH IS
3.6%.
I THINK YOU’RE JUST ABOVE 3%.
IN OTHER WORDS, GEORGIA, HAD
TREMENDOUS RECOVERY FROM THE
PANDEMIC AND, I THINK THE REASON
YOU WON YOUR PRIMARY PRETTY BIG
WAS BECAUSE YOU HAVE BEEN
STEERING THE SHIP?
>> WELL, WE’VE BEEN FIGHTING
HARD FOR WHAT HARD-WORKING
GEORGIANS WANT, PUTTING THEM
FIRST.
WE DIDN’T WORRY A LOT ABOUT
OTHER POLITICS OUT THERE WHETHER
STACEY ABRAMS OR OTHER THINGS
THAT PRESIDENT BIDEN AND
POLICIES SAYS THEY WERE DOING.
WE CAN’T FIX EVERYTHING IN
WASHINGTON, D.C.
WHAT WE’RE TRYING TO DO IS HELP
GEORGIANS FIGHT THROUGH THAT.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY BIG PART OF
HELPING ME WITH MY AGENDAth
YEAR TO DO JUST THAT WE’RE
SENDING BILLION DOLLARS OF
TAXPAYER MONEY BACK TO PUT IN
THEIR POCKET, INSTEAD OF
SPENDING IT TO HELP FIGHT
THROUGH THE INFLATION.
WE SUSPENDED THE GAS TAX HERE.
WE HAVE THE LOWEST GAS IN THE
COUNTRY EVEN THOUGH IT IS
OUTRAGEOUSLY HIGH RIGHT NOW.
WE’RE STILL HELPING GEORGIANS
FIGHT THROUGH THE 40-YEAR HIGH
BIDEN INFLATION.
LIKE YOU SAID WE JUST PASSED THE
LARGEST STATE INCOME TAX CUT IN
STATE HISTORY, FLATTENING THE
TAX TO KEEP MORE MONEY IN
GEORGIAN POCKETS TO HELP THEM
FIGHT THROUGH THIS TIME.
WE KNOW THAT MONEY WILL TURN IN
THE LOCAL ECONOMY.
ONE REASON GEORGIA HAS BEEN SO
RESILIENT, LARRY.
WE’VE BEEN OPEN AS YOU AND I
TALKED ABOUT BEFORE.
WE HAVEN’T WAIVERED.
WE’VE BEEN CONSISTENT.
WE’RE SEEING RECORD ECONOMIC
NUMBERS IN OUR STATE, WHETHER IT
IS THE TWO LARGEST ECONOMIC
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS EVER, WE
DID THAT IN THE SAME FISCAL YEAR
WITH RIVIAN, HYUNDAI.
WE DO.
WE HAVE THE LOWEST UNEMPLOYMENT
RATE IN THE HISTORY OF OUR
STATE.
I BELIEVE IT IS STILL THE LOWEST
OF THE 10 MOST POPLOUS STATES.
WE HAVE GREAT OPPORTUNITY HERE
FOR PEOPLE IN GEORGIA.
LARRY: GOVERNOR, LET ME ASK YOU,
YOU KNOW, MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
I THINK DEALT YOU A DIRTY BLOW.
YOU PASSED ELECTION REFORM BILL.
IT WAS A GOOD BILL.
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL SAYS IT
WAS GOING TO SUPPRESS THE
TURNOUT.
AS I UNDERSTAND IT THE TURNOUT
IN THE PRIMARIES WAS GIGANTIC
AND I AND OTHERS WANT TO KNOW,
DOESN’T MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
OWE YOU AN APOLOGY FOR BEING
COMPLETELY WRONG WHEN THEY LEFT
ATLANTA, WENT OUT TO COLORADO?
>> WELL I’M NOT TOO WORRIED
ABOUT GETTING APOLOGIES IN
POLITICS.
NOBODY, NOBODY MUCH FEELS SORRY
FOR YOU.
THAT HAPPENED A LONG TIME AGO
BUT IT IS, IT IS KIND OF
INTERESTING, LARRY, BEING A JUST
OVER A YEAR AGO WHEN ALL THAT
WAS GOING DOWN, THAT WE JUST HAD
RECORD TURNOUT IN GEORGIA.
THE TRUTH IS COMING OUT.
IT IS THE SAME THING WE TOLD
PEOPLE OVER A YEAR AGO.
IT IS EASY TO VOTE, HARD TO
CHEAT HERE.
PRESIDENT BIDEN CAME OUT SAID
THIS WAS JIM CROW 2.0.
JIM CROW ON STEROIDS.
JIM EAGLE, WHATEVER THAT MEANS.
REALLY TRYING TO SELL A
NARRATIVE THAT WASN’T THE TRUTH.
I THINK GEORGIANS KNOW I WAS
TRANSPARENT.
I WAS TRUTHFUL WITH THEM.
I WAS THEN.
I WAS NOW.
THEY’RE SEEING THAT.
THEY LIKE THE CONSISTENCY.
THEY DID IT WHEN THE ECONOMY
OPENED.
STACEY ABRAMS CRITICIZED THAT.
SHE CRITICIZED THE ELECTIONS
BILL.
THERE ARE OTHER THINGS WE STOOD
UP VALUES OF OUR STATE.
WHAT OUR FOLKS WANT HERE.
WE FOUGHT THROUGH THE NOISE AND
POLITICS OF THAT, DID THAT WITH
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL.
THANKFULLY THE BRAVES WON THE
WORLD SERIES.
WE GOT POETIC JUSTICE.
THERE.
LARRY: GOOD POINT.
SPEAKING TO A DIE-HARD YANKER
KEY FAN THAT IS A GOOD POINT.
POINT ACCEPTED.
GOVERNOR BRIAN KEMP.