The Daily Show kicks off a week in Atlanta before Georgia's midterm elections, Michael Kosta explores the city's hot spots, and Trevor interviews Georgia governor candidate Stacey Abrams.
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open but we waited for the fleets the stone and its ability to deport loves almost two way of his but job sites why i'm coming for the fights are capable of course come on malicious go in being well because what will help but just the wealth is violence is part of the experience you said you wanted the authentic while the house expire yang yeah ok the authentic wants a house experience is watching strangest punch each other in the face you accorded you go while chemically by wolfgang somebody's fight i just want to eat the food was some sort of those boys out a second you can you can wait here although in theory but he always assignment of us in any way i want it you said to me why didn't you mustn't was truly figure has once again what do you think i'm u thickening gently view takes a painful wounds and wait for the coming to you and i we made adds maggie so much they were presently at second say tat consumers through this thing everybody can see what is happening everybody entrepreneur woke up to the very strong i'm not just any very strong we're coming to you from the tabernacle lads or charge ass right very hot man merits lack hardly worth a place ass wives amassed city on the ocean no that's a man says but still save failing
well yeah oh and i can feel you feel amazing the oh i'm excited for this this is great we're going to be here all week all week we are going to be here and if you asking why that's because you know that's how long our layaway is now i'm joking i'm joking because georgia is the epicenter of america's elections the presidential race could decide the midterms and i know i know there are a few other states i know there are but none of them add the vegetable right the i'm loving the food out here everything
extra i'm of its you got you got that southern fried chicken you got that
right okra fry tomatoes everything for even iran somewhere politicians brains of right and i like that but i like that point it is rumoured that nobody can i tell you i m loving every single moment now everything you know that
the five you got great music everyone here so polite as well
yeah new york people like what would you but here everyone's is like bless your heart the dunno i don't mean the same thing but it feels different the it feels completely different oh 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 what i landed on africa by mistake
people ever is like opposite boston i've never been anywhere like wild from the moment we do not like the moment i landed at the airport is black people ever everyone was like you get in the car you were drivers black everyone in the hotel was black i get into a turn on the tv news ankara is black black leather man than crosses over so like a black spots reporter i walk in
the bottom and look in the mirror that person's black and you can really you can feel it in the city because i won't companies like ordinary so my schreiber job have you built the driver given felt what it's like i have but the blacklist
is that true this is the only city i've been to with the traffic has rhythm the you can feel the crap even when you're moving forward and backwards it's like it's going to stop and then it's gone it's like we always do what's happening right here i'm going to change lanes an article that laughs out of traffic as the emergency emergency no no no you're not going to let me merge well bless your heart surplus you're halfway
but as i said as i said the reason we are the real reason we here because we wanted to feel what it's like to be on the ground in a state that everyone is looking to as elect
they approach as ever and you can see i mean you all you know what i'm talking about like you can you can forget election days coming every single at every single
its political now every at every billboard is political everything every flyer every spam tanks that you get
everything is political it's halloween today i bumped into a kid on the street dressed as frankenstein's like what are you doing he's like the real monster is actually inflation the three musketeers feels like a toothless cat tears laughing
as you know that you big raises two major races that everybody is watching
two major raised first up the governess raised with the sea the sea currently occupy a republican brian camp whose leading in the polls right now or that that will have a week is that what you're doing and he's running
platform of making it harder to get an abortion but easier to get a gun
despite this policies brian campesinos immoderate that's what i find really interesting all because all because he refused to help them
from overturned the electric which is good don't get me wrong but that's how extreme politics has gotten in america he's like i don't think we
hang my pants
and people like wow this guy's got some moderate views he's a real moderate politician but of course the person trying to stop him from getting a second term is the one and only stacey abrams laughing by the way the 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 two thousand and twenty it's great it's great
stacey abrams has gone boldly where no one has gone before paramount plus i like that now we're going to be chattering from the abrams right later on in the show so we'll get back to that right now right now let's vote
on a senate showdown that has ramifications even beyond georgia and its between its between
credit senator raphael warnock and republic have and the republican candidates herschel
yes now now warnock campaign focused on abortion right
and expanding infrastructure
but as election big its closer i feel like his campaign ads on almost
focused on making sure
the race doesn't go any longer than it has to
guess who's coming to thanksgiving brought a friend that's right i could be interrupting your thanksgiving because if nobody gets fifty percent of the vote there'll be a run off and nobody wants that to happen you don't have to mix politics at thanksgiving that's why i approve this message the right to say
that is the most convincing way to get people to vote if you dont vote politicians are going to come to your house and hang out
imagine politicians are showing up on thanksgiving like ha
virtual walkers oh hi dad wrong house raw abide by the way i really need to understand what what is what is going on in georgia that reverend
roughly warnock is neck and neck with her shall work what at what is happening but i know i don't workers all neck but what what does what is happening but everything
thing the man says turns out to be alive you what's wrong with a faint police badge
pretended he wasn't fbi agents
he claimed he was antiabortion even though he apparently paid for one he exclaimed he hadn't
one kid even though we have a thousand
oh and any told people he graduated in the top one percent of his class of the universe
we have georgia and then a china he never graduated at all at all i get this point i want to meet
walk up that herschel look at things he is right because at this point at this point everything is like he treats real
the way we treat dating ups
you're just like your papa like i'm one of the toll is people you love me type sounded my own industry and my mom lives with me not the other way around but the big thing about actual work
isn't all the lying in the hypocrisy is so weird
range guy you know like it if you don't believe me if you don't believe we watch him give one of my favorite answers ever
politics this is what he said when he was asked about the biggest problem facing america
today what do you see as some of the big biggest problems
going on in our country to the other
the biggest problem alone or our countries day where so many celebrities
people that they can do
a lot of people oh you if you can't do that you gotta feel bad for you still feel sorry for you sir would you say if i may go to
you're the guy but i tell you you can't do it does i child you did it why can't do it ok
first of all there was the sleepy
have you ever see aid is like give ambien had a par cares what was that
only reason those you should be in the same room is have been causing is doing brain surgery on herschel walk up is not the reason they should be talking to each other because i'm sorry i'm sorry i'm sorry this is the biggest problem the biggest problem there
is facing right now is
he's telling people they can't do it
biggest problem the biggest about you
the average american right now i think i know inflation is bad right now but the beggar issue has not been diesel has never told me to follow my dreams i could have all the bakery by now could have been making for family and look look i get it i get it
somebody will be like you're a celebrity you not objective why get so maybe i'm missing something it maybe i am
and so if i am encase i've been to discouraging
to the american people let me say this
in america the you can do anything just like marshall walker if you want to be an fbi agent you claim you're an f b i if you want to graduate valedictorian just tell people that had 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 the point is there are many major reasons that are going on this year and they're really close you notice america knows this right a week from now herschel
i 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 his very own barack obama
recent so important it even got obama off the beach was down here in georgia over the weekend and he brought them
obama swag with that remember but hershel walker was a heck of a football player but but here's the question
they became acquainted
what political decisions about our economy and our foreign policy and our future let's do it thought experiment
applause
are you saying
mr walker just say hey here's herschel heisman winner let's have him why the point the you'd want to know does he know how to fly an airplane
wow what really rarely president obama ready
you gonna say that about a man who graduated in the top one percent a pilot school how dare you
lotta people don't notice about me you herschel but ours and top gun there but we was about me whenever the eighty six feet maverick
our bomber rose you would like a signature swear you because up so polite but he's roasting the shit out of you the last time i checked guard you nobody binds responded to seal burma again wasn't its people have seen him come out in august
fired up gets everybody excited that's what you get from
when a race that's why
send joe biden you know you
you'll get the same thing for me it's true
joe biden wants to do what he's always i i'll go give a speech and everyone is like no no please or blades you're needed in washington there's a one thousand piece puzzle we need your help on go on go on stories like i used to know a guy named puzzle yes you did sir yes he did you just solve that sir
so at the end of the day is going to come down to the votes i who votes who doesn't
you gotta be little bit harder i wanted to tell you this but you know that's because last year georgia state republicans passed a very controversial bill
i was in law s speech or to which created all kinds of new obstacles to voting fewer dropped boxes shorter absence
voting windows and its even illegal to hand water to people waiting in line yeah i mean luckily you can still hand
the sunny legally that's considered sewage bought at that point you people rather than now georgia republicans claimed that this bill was about votes or fraud
we all know the real motivation and this is about fraud was about trying to suppress the voter turn out we get it again i mean because at some point even tried to limit early voting on a sunday at y sunday we know why
because of soul suppose i 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 are you going to take that away
sunday voting was the one day when black church has only five hours instead of ten
closer you what i've loved about being in georgia is watching the news and realising that the votes of support
strategy might have backfire because it turns out
these new restrictions are just motivating georgians you book even harder for early voters in amid her so far more than one point six million people already have an actual official expect that number to surpass the two million mark this week i did a lot of really move forward by budgeting for reasons and other democracies definitely on its aid to have a right so we are persistent people lost their lives was to have been written to command boys our opinion mobility now you know what a gay rights that's right the bar suppression people what they could stifled about but all it does motivate people to vote earlier than ever and let me tell you something that's how you know as well you know you messed up and you may
people angry when we arrive early to some shit that's when you gotta go down a black man your request to get here too and i would say levin thirties i gave you the handles and she had first why you early you might find out you ve got to find out
but i just want to remind you with its early bulging awaiting in line
ailing and your ballots
everyone in georgia needs to get out there and play their part everyone including myself including myself because as a celebrity i need to tell you
you can do it you get out there 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 profile warnock is going to come straight to your house and he's coming for those sweet potatoes the thicker for everybody where 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 that lots of people laughed
welcome back to the many show coming to you all the way from atlanta this week where we gotta be everybody that's where we all right now that's what you're feeling now now we we might be in atlantic but the people watching this at home or not show we sense of aerial michael costs the out into the city
you show america when at last i have so far had landed to show you the places that the guide books won't take you to get a skinnier guy but first up at my good land a blockhead list the one and only trap museum somewhat the traveller trot music museum actually trot music music yeah
thank god it was like holes
the ground and spikes come now
no indiana jones stuff i don't need this flashlight and skeleton don't need that at all actually kg educated me on the forefathers of trap loved by their fans and hated by the d e a t i aka a tip gucci mane and my personal fav jeezy
don't think my bag just i see coke and i get all excited though jesus you know snow man and of course these are breaks
from my white people snow man is called
man this
bricks these ok i think why people know about cooking
what are these which is this a trap for me
it looked like mugshots but is that yeah okay
did i
a balance be though the goal of this peace its day
they had to do the commodity circumstances but it led into multimillion dollar businesses ratio
he'll something when you see my charlotte hearing our motor
i dont google microcosm does
these are two track commitment and those ten
i try to live my life very much like trap commandment seven people
shit from miles away that cat bout i mean that's truly how i organised micro really
i think the view i think that without commitment of three
we'll go to sleep around
a stripper that is the next destination magic the home of atlanta's finest lemon pepper wings and no that's not a euphemism lemon pepper wings are a staple of flavor pair below is a staple these wings are amazing the wings haven't got here yet ok once i tasted them things i knew why people preferred wings over breasts and thighs roger delicious when would you like a wing or not while you're working so i ended up staying awhile to try every flavor that some lemon pepper sauce on the money unfortunately i had so much fun anything that i broke trap commandment number three and then it was time to stumble to my next destination the grocery store this is the supreme of grocery stores there's a line around the block let's go check it out for me too
what does it have
i got i'm a i'm on t v on a celebrity's the grocery spot is the brainchild of local hipster matthew jones then it's not your grandma's grocery store featuring street art the dj in a line around the block i knew i'd have to blend in with these atlanta's scenesters to get past the bouncer once i got inside i was surprised to find just a regular store i don't get people buying groceries just pretending
just pretend i get it for him
you can see behind me there is no explanation needed this place is popular
for obvious reasons in if you don't get it will then year gum
i noticed something odd people were taking food and just walking out without pain so after stuffing a few essentials in my pockets i went to warn the owner you go to undercover boss here man like people just walking out with their food
she just took a dollar and the guy had a full bag of food yeah that's how it works they don't even have to give a dollar it's all free it's what we do what
the business model is to see people for free we're going to give it to was atlanta's own only free
sustainable grocery store we feed around four hundred people per day
three days we wouldn't
i urge you to do something so stupid we try
for profit
and it failed terribly than we learn what mutual aid was matthew explain how he's pay what you can mama was a response to atlantic problems with food insecurity no its not when you're a little sandwich view of pathetic next to that giant hoagie its people who aren't starving but are still struggling to get enough food to feed their families are demographic is the working class family the people who make too much to have helping
resources but don't make enough to actually make it on their own ok well i guess i'm glad up here because i can really
vies you how to turn this place into
offered a grocery store i don't think you understand how nonprofits work 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 started number the price
hopefully right that eventually the girl would be to where you could pay for your own groceries and help feed another family stupid
i turn this thing into a strip club amanda
one thing at land taught me
where it can be a stripling sort of the customers thank you and i both new ideas
the food is free but it's forty bucks to get in the door so nah man what if he just puts big price tags on each item that way the rich people have to pay what if it's like a fifty dollar tote bag but it's
it is now and it's cool likely book by the towpath why would we want to do that because toads sweet but these folks didn't we on one thing the store has changed their lives travel like or forget you know fresh fruit fresh vegetables fresh meat
now it's convenient for the neighborhoods this a lot of goodness in the community of spiritual one hundred percent suddenly this zero dollar making business didn't sound like such a bad idea inspired by your story and the story of the grocery spot so i would like to pay what i can jerk
thank you very much
please act borne away like i wrote you a check for a massive amount you don't just this is just just don't read it just
there is so much market too because we come back stacey abrams guess you don't you to miss
yes sir is voting rights activists and entrepreneur who is the democratic nominee for georgia's governor please welcome
stacy abrams stacy able welcome back i mean it's a strange because of the fourth time that we which having this is the first time i'm chancing in your neck of the woods yes i know it's the final stage of the race it's it's been up it's been a particularly interesting bracelets let's start with this
i know what your profile in your images in most parts of america coming to join
it has been really interesting because every add that i watch me
assuming you're a very evil person well my parents were surprised to learn
that i was responsible for the kidnapping of the limburg baby i i know we're half his body is buried and i may have stolen something backstage
add but ok i'm going to check that you know it 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 you can either internalize the
acts or you can use it as fuel to remind you of why you're doing this every single day and the real life and yeah brian kemp wants to say vile things about me my daddy's watching and i'm going to tell
you you're in this race you're trying to position yourself as somebody who can move georgia forward one thing that is
particularly overshadowed your campaign though is how national politics has started to infect mean own state level politics so i'd love to know how do you
distinguished yourself stacy abrams and and how do you speak to people you know
from under the shadow of them saying joe biden because
half the ads are not about you funding of its joe biden
economy joe biden inflation stacy abrams is joe
biden and so when when you speak to people that's literally one of the existence of these vehicles is joe biden how do you get
from under that's an and what do you think people need to understand that does separate funding from joy
biden slash the national agenda well first of all people remember
who was in the office before joe biden and they are very happy he's gone
number two the money the resources that have come to georgia the billions of dollars they ve kept the state afloat came because a federal democrats not because of the current governor
working georgians and i remind them that bit but it's also rang can't band abortion he band background checks ebay and children he band books he bade the truth and he intends to go further if you
three elected reminding women that you do not have the right to control your bodies for partial locker can
but what he wants frank hymns good with that but if your woman here
is 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 and so part of it is just reminding people of israel
well he's been governor over four years i haven't you make sure that so if you're the governor you don't get to take credit but not taken
possibility the is your hotly contested race logo there there
going to be stories coming out about poll stations that closed when they shouldn't have and people who were kicked out of lines and purging etc etc what it creates is an array
paradoxical world where
on the one hand you
to call out you know it
and processes that on fair and make it as easy as possible for people to vote on the other hand people would be quick to turn that on you and say oh but if trump doesn't exist
election then he's back but you also don't accept the election so you bad how do you navigate
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 have 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 winning
added inciting insurrection that's what right that's what donald donald trump denied the outcome of no
i know i'm not governor i haven't been governor for whole years i've been very
here about that that's how i got to go and star trek
but what i have always fought for in its mean you can go
back i was on the march on washington when i was nineteen so this is 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
brian kenneth greatest it right here is the architect of voter suppression and the reality is they try to stop us from talking about the access so they can join up the outcome
they want and what i will never stop talking about is the fact
no american no georgian should be denied access if they are legally eligible
there is no amount of that kind
and blaming and conflation and false equivalents that will ever make me say that it is ok to tell a georgian you don't have the right
i heard that is not right and it will not happen as long as i've got the pc and i see why you have this more that you do stacey abrams thank you so much during the majority of the
we must also make you saw what could you do you think you could put me personally picking it up before we go before we go to remind you the mid term elections are approaching and the stakes are higher than they ve been in generations so make sure your boys house make a plan to go early early got over until next time they say up there
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