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Get real, fact-based news on the new Politically Georgia podcast from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The podcast is hosted by Georgia’s best political team with Greg Bluestein, Patricia Murphy and now featuring Tia Mitchell from Washington and broadcast hall of famer Bill Nigut. Our journalists provide in-depth reporting and analysis from the nation’s political battleground state. You can also listen live every Monday-Friday at 10 a.m. on 90.1 WABE.
Call in with your questions on the Politically Georgia Podcast Hotline at (404)-526-AJCP‬, and our insiders will answer them on the Friday episodes. Learn more on the AJC Politically Georgia Podcast page.

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    • 4.4 • 231 Ratings

Get real, fact-based news on the new Politically Georgia podcast from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. The podcast is hosted by Georgia’s best political team with Greg Bluestein, Patricia Murphy and now featuring Tia Mitchell from Washington and broadcast hall of famer Bill Nigut. Our journalists provide in-depth reporting and analysis from the nation’s political battleground state. You can also listen live every Monday-Friday at 10 a.m. on 90.1 WABE.
Call in with your questions on the Politically Georgia Podcast Hotline at (404)-526-AJCP‬, and our insiders will answer them on the Friday episodes. Learn more on the AJC Politically Georgia Podcast page.

    AJC exclusive: We uncovered many more high-profile names from DA Fani Willis’ witness list for the Trump RICO trial

    AJC exclusive: We uncovered many more high-profile names from DA Fani Willis’ witness list for the Trump RICO trial

    First up: A look at an Atlanta Journal-Constitution exclusive: Tamar Hallerman joins the podcast to discuss the list of potential witnesses Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis may call in the election conspiracy case against Donald Trump. Former members of the Trump administration on the list obtained by the AJC include Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Bill Barr, plus state GOP leaders including Gov. Brian Kemp, Attorney General Chris Carr and Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
     
    Then: Cobb County Commissioner Jerica Richardson joins the podcast to discuss her plan to run for the U.S. House. Richardson declared her intentions to run for the 6th District seat long before the Legislature drew the new congressional map, which, if approved by the court, may make it difficult for a Democrat to win the district. She answers a key question about whether she’d shift her focus and run in a district already held by a Democratic incumbent.
     
    Plus: Greg, Patricia and Bill share their observations about the GOP presidential debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
     
    Links to today's topics:
    Former Top Trump aides, AJC exclusive: Georgia GOP leaders on Willis' witness list
    Jerica Richardson announces run for Congress
    Greg Bluestein on GOP Alabama debate
     
    Have a question for the show? Call the 24-hour Politically Georgia Podcast Hotline at 404-526-AJCP. That's 404-526-2527. We’ll play back your question and answer it during the Listener Mailbag segment on next Friday’s episode.  
     
    Subscribe to the AJC: If you aren’t a subscriber to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, click here to get unlimited digital access to the AJC. 
     
    Listen and subscribe to our podcast for free at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also tell your smart speaker to “play Politically Georgia podcast.” 
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    • 48 min
    Will Federal Judge Steve Jones give a thumbs up to newly drawn Georgia political maps?

    Will Federal Judge Steve Jones give a thumbs up to newly drawn Georgia political maps?

    First up: A brief look at a breaking story: 
    Dissension controls to roil GOP members of the U.S. House continues as Marjorie Taylor Greene accuses her Georgia colleague Rich McCormick of a “physically aggressive” confrontation with her. Greene has reported the incident to the Speaker of the House, who will investigate. McCormick says he touched Greene on the shoulders as a friendly gesture but apologized in any case. 
     
    Then: An overview of the issues continuing to embroil Georgia’s redistricting session in controversy. How can the creation of two new majority Black senate districts actually decrease Black voting power? Are the maps drawn by the GOP-controlled legislature likely to create a legal path that could end up in the U.S. Supreme Court? And could one of the only remaining planks in the Voting Rights Act be at stake? UGA Professor Charles Bullock and Bobby Kahn, who was chief of staff to Governor Roy Barnes in 2001, for the last redistricting to be under the control of a Democratic majority in the house, senate and governor’s office address questions about the new maps. 
     
    Plus: A preview of tonight’s GOP presidential debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. Four candidates – Nikki Haley, Ron DeSantis, Chris Christie and Vivek Ramaswamy will be on the stage. AJC Politically Georgia co-host Greg Bluestein is in Tuscaloosa and will join the podcast tomorrow with a report. 
     
    Links to today's topics: 
    Will tonight's GOP debate change the 2024 race? 
    Physical contact continues to enflame tensions between Rick McCormick and Marjorie Taylor Greene 
     
    Have a question for the show? Call the 24-hour Politically Georgia Podcast Hotline at 404-526-AJCP. That's 404-526-2527. We’ll play back your question and answer it during the Listener Mailbag segment on next Friday’s episode.  
     
    Subscribe to the AJC: If you aren’t a subscriber to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, click here to get unlimited digital access to the AJC.  
     
    Listen and subscribe to our podcast for free at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also tell your smart speaker to “play Politically Georgia podcast.”
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    • 58 min
    Rep. McBath's senior advisor talks redistricting; Resolution in support of training center

    Rep. McBath's senior advisor talks redistricting; Resolution in support of training center

    First up: Jake Orvis, senior advisor to Congresswoman Lucy McBath talks about the complications that could emerge from the new congressional map drawn by GOP legislators under a federal court mandate to create a second Black majority congressional district. Orvis believes that since the new map doesn’t actually create a second majority-minority district, it may be rejected by the federal court. But he also acknowledges that if the map stands it could force Congresswoman McBath to decide to move to a new district to run for re-election. Hand he agrees that in a new district, McBath could have to compete against many other minority candidates seeking a seat in the U.S. House. 
      
    Then: AJC Atlanta city hall reporter Riley Bunch shares updates on the controversial Atlanta police and fire training center. Bunch reports that the city has already spent $1.3 million on lawyers representing the city in lawsuits over the center as well as for consultants offering insights about process of dealing with petitions collected in opposition to construction of the center. 
      
    Plus: Republican legislators hold Democrats’ feet to the fire in a vote on condemning the “evil” attacks by Hamas on Israelis. 
    Georgia House votes to condemn "evil" Hamas attacks, putting Dems on the spot 
      
    And, a preview of tomorrow night’s GOP presidential debate in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. 
      
     
    Links to today's topics: 
    New congressional map maintains GOP power and may defy court order 
    City has spent $1.3 million on litigation and consultants on issues raised by Atlanta police training center 
    Georgia House votes to condemn "evil" Hamas attacks, putting Dems on the spot 
    Have a question for the show? Call the 24-hour Politically Georgia Podcast Hotline at 404-526-AJCP. That's 404-526-2527. We’ll play back your question and answer it during the Listener Mailbag segment on next Friday’s episode.  
     
    Subscribe to the AJC: If you aren’t a subscriber to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, click here to get unlimited digital access to the AJC.  
     
    Listen and subscribe to our podcast for free at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also tell your smart speaker to “play Politically Georgia podcast.”  
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    • 56 min
    GOP legislators target Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath

    GOP legislators target Democratic Rep. Lucy McBath

    On today's epsiode of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution's Politically Georgia podcast, AJC Washington reporter Tia Mitchell describes why Georgia Rep. Nikema Williams became one of only two Democrats in the U.S. House to vote against expelling Rep. George Santos. And discusses the reasons five members of the GOP Georgia delegation voted to keep Santos in office. 
     
    We'll also explain how the new Georgia congressional map drawn by Republican legislators seems to defy federal Judge Steve Jones' order that they create an additional Black majority congressional district. The map threatens the tenure of Democrat Lucy McBath and could force other Democratic incumbents to run in different districts than those in which they now serve. 
     
    Plus, The lawyer representing Donald Trump in the Fulton County election conspiracy criminal case makes his first appearance in court. Steve Sadow argues that the proposed August start date for trial is “election interference,” since Trump is likely to be running for the White House at that point in time. He also asserts that Trump had a Constitutionally-protected right of free speech to claim the 2020 election was fraudulent. 
     
    Links to today's topics:
    How Georgia Reps voted on George Santos expulsion...and why 
    New congressional map maintains GOP power and may defy court order 
    Trump. lawyer argues Fulton County trial dates would be "election interference" 
     
    Have a question for the show? Call the 24-hour Politically Georgia Podcast Hotline at 404-526-AJCP. That's 404-526-2527. We’ll play back your question and answer it during the Listener Mailbag segment on next Friday’s episode.  
     
    Subscribe to the AJC: If you aren’t a subscriber to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, click here to get unlimited digital access to the AJC.  
     
    Listen and subscribe to our podcast for free at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also tell your smart speaker to “play Politically Georgia podcast.”  
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    • 55 min
    Georgia Republican-drawn maps head to votes in House and Senate

    Georgia Republican-drawn maps head to votes in House and Senate

    Republicans are moving at a rapid pace to finalize new legislative districts. Democrats say GOP lawmakers are using “smoke and mirrors” to create a false impression they are complying with a federal judge’s order.
     
    Meanwhile, we’re waiting to see how Republicans have drawn a congressional map to meet the judge’s order to create one additional majority-minority U.S. House district.
     
    Then, Govs. Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis clashed on Fox News in Alpharetta last night in a most unusual debate.
     
    Plus, an update from Washington D.C. as Marjorie Taylor Greene returns to her outsider tactics. And embattled Rep. George Santos is expelled from Congress minutes after the show goes off-air. 
     
    And, we answer your questions from our listener mailbag, which you can call anytime with your question. The number for the 24-hour Politically Georgia podcast hotline is (404)526-AJCP . The team also shares our picks for ‘who’s up and who’s down’ this week.
     
    Links to today’s topics:
     
    Capitol Recap: Georgia redistricting may not give Dems the gains some expected
     
    DeSantis and Newsom clash in messy ‘red vs. blue’ Georgia debate
     
    Marjorie Taylor Greene returns to outsider roots
     
    House expels New York Rep. George Santos. It's just the sixth expulsion in the chamber's history
     
     
    Subscribe to the AJC: If you aren’t a subscriber to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, click here to get unlimited digital access to the AJC. 
     
    Listen and subscribe to our podcast for free at Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also tell your smart speaker to “play Politically Georgia podcast.” 
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    • 57 min
    Pulling back the curtain on how legislative leaders draw new district maps

    Pulling back the curtain on how legislative leaders draw new district maps

    With the redistricting session ordered by a federal judge now under way at the state capitol, Politically Georgia hosts Patricia Murphy, Greg Bluestein and Bill Nigut welcome John Porter, a top aide to former Lt. Governor Geoff Duncan to the podcast. Porter offers an inside look at the pressures that weigh on legislative leaders as they draw new maps, rewarding some incumbents, and punishing others. Porter was deeply involved in drawing the maps that came in the aftermath of the 2020 census, and which federal judge Steve Jones ordered be redrawn to give Black voters fairer representation.

    You'll also hear are wrap up of the emotional three-day celebration of the life of Rosalynn Carter, who was laid to rest in the family burial ground in Plains yesterday.

    Plus, we'll give you a look at the state senate’s passage of a resolution offering unqualified support for Israel in the war against Hamas and a preview of tonight’s unusual debate between GOP presidential candidate Ron DeSantis and California Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom.
     
    Links to today's topics:
    Lawmakers begin fight over redrawing Georgia legislative maps
    State senate map rewards Republicans but creates 2 majority Black districts
    A look at new state house maps
    Rosalynn Carter's journey comes to and end in her beloved Plains
    ‘Red vs. Blue’: Why DeSantis and Newsom are facing off in Alpharetta
     
    Have a question for the show? Call the 24-hour Politically Georgia Podcast Hotline at 404-526-AJCP. That's 404-526-2527.  We’ll play back your question and answer it during the Listener Mailbag segment on next Friday’s episode.  
      
    Subscribe to the AJC: If you aren’t a subscriber to The
    Atlanta Journal-Constitution, click here to get unlimited digital access to the AJC. 
     
    Listen and subscribe to our podcast for free at Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you listen to podcasts. You can also tell your smart speaker to “play Politically Georgia podcast.” 
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    • 53 min

Customer Reviews

4.4 out of 5
231 Ratings

231 Ratings

Sparky Collins ,

Welcome back professors!!!

I am delighted with the return of Political Rewind under the new name of Politically Georgia under the auspices of the Atlanta Journal Constitution. The podcast has helped me keep up on Georgia and national current events, to understand the relation between the 2 and individuals who helped shape history. I appreciate you all.

Eddie H_GA ,

This Was A Good Podcast

For about one hour per week in three episodes, Greg and Patricia delivered a great summary of the week in Washington and politics. It contained little to none of their opinion, just a quick overview. This is why I listen to podcasts and dropped terrestrial radio about ten years ago. Now the new format is full of fluff and advertising. It seems to be a pathway to promote the radio show. I will never listen to that!

I have enjoyed listening to Tia, she has been a good addition.

Bill Nigut has been just the opposite! Here’s a few examples:
1. He constantly talks over and cuts off his colleagues and guests.
2. He regularly has to be corrected for inaccurate statements by his colleagues and guests.
3. He regularly cuts off guests he is interviewing to add his own opinion.

I don’t expect to listen to many more episodes. The AJC had a really good podcast and someone totally screwed it up!

UnitedCampusWorkerofGA ,

By far the best podcast for GA state politics

We have enough national news outlets, media, and podcasts, but state and local politics are what make the biggest differences in our lives. Politically Georgia, like it’s predecessor Political Rewind, gets important information out to Georgians with expertise, analysis, and compassion. Bill Nigut has such a draw and makes you want to listen to the conversation. Bill, Tia, Patricia, and Greg all listen to each other and communicate so effectively. Makes my life better! Kudos to AJC and WABE for partnering to get this important information out to us 5 days a week.

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