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Chapter 1: What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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A Republican gerrymander just backfired in their face. Democrats flipped another seat blue. Guess where? In Georgia, a House District 121 just flipped blue. And it was a House District at the state level where MAGA Republicans in Georgia Worked to gerrymander the heck out of this thing to make it go even more red, but it went blue. Let me tell you what went down here.
So a Democratic candidate, Eric Gissler, won Georgia's House District seat 121. This isn't federal level. This isn't Congress. This is the state House District in Georgia. And this guy, Gissler, won by about two to three points. This was an area that Trump won by plus 12 in 2024. But get this, Eric Gissler has run for this seat before. You know when he ran for this seat before?
Last November, so pretty fricking recently. And guess what the result was last November before Donald Trump destroyed the American economy. Gessler lost 61 to 39 against a different candidate, a Republican by the name of Marcus Widower, 61 to 39.
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Chapter 2: What recent political event occurred in Georgia involving Eric Gissler?
So to recap, Eric Gissler lost 61 to 39 last November. And now in December, on December 9th, he won by like 51% to 49%. He won by like two points as Greg Blustein, who does a great job, local journalist there, one of the best. He goes in a stealth upset. Democrat Eric Gissler flips a GOP-held Georgia House seat spanning parts of Athens and Oconee County.
Gissler won 39% of the vote last November. He captured 51% tonight to defeat a Republican backed by Brian Kemp. So maybe he doesn't consider himself MAGA per se, but when you aid and abet Donald Trump's agenda, which has destroyed the lives of people in Georgia, I consider that MAGA. And he was also endorsed by other GOP leaders.
This comes on the same night where there was a massive GOP loss in the Miami mayor's race, where previously in the 2021 election, the current MAGA mayor Suarez won by 67%. And now the Democratic candidate Eileen Higgins beat the MAGA Republican candidate in Miami, 59.3% to 40.7%. So she won by about 20 points when the prior Democrat in 2021 lost by 67 points.
Let's talk about what the gerrymander backfiring was all about though in Georgia. Zachary Deniney, he explains it as such. A Republican gerrymander just backfired in Georgia, despite splitting Athens, Georgia into three conservative leaning districts. Democrats flipped a Trump plus 12 Georgia House District seat 121, turning one of those engineered red seats blue tonight.
So you look, how did Gissler do it? Clark, a 28 point shift. Oconee County, an eight point shift. That's big, but take a look right here at the University of Georgia Campus Precinct. Gissler outperformed Kamala Harris by 45 points. Let me repeat that. Gissler outperformed Kamala Harris by 45 points in the UGA campus precinct and by 28 points countywide.
And Zachary Dineny talks about how he flagged a Yale polling data showing Trump's growing weakness with young voters. And we saw that dynamic play out at the ballot box again. tonight or last night when this major flip from red to blue happened. And we've been covering here that these young voters, the 18 to 29, they have seen the rug pulled by Donald Trump. They know that they've been defrauded.
They know that Donald Trump has sold their futures out to AI, to data centers. They can't afford rent. They have no future in buying homes. Donald Trump lied to them about everything. He promised that things would be affordable on day one. He lied, things are less affordable. And now Donald Trump continues to tell them they're living in a golden age.
Donald Trump has also used the Department of Education not to help the education of the youth, but to engage in punitive conduct.
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Chapter 3: How did the GOP gerrymander in Georgia backfire?
attacking the youth, destroying their futures. And Donald Trump hates young people. And he is someone who's destroying young people's lives. But here's what I want to highlight to you. How did Eric Gissler win this? What was his message? Affordability, affordability, affordability. So here was an interview that he did. It got about 174 views before I pulled it.
We do our research here at the Midas Touch Network. And during this interview with the Athens politics nerd, shout out Athens politics nerd. We see the work you're doing, politics nerd. Keep up the great work over there. I love politics nerds. I'm a politics nerd. Gissler was talking to this politics nerd about, you know, lots of people who held their nose in Georgia and voted for Donald Trump.
They thought that they were getting affordability, but watch how Gissler describes what actually happened. Here, play this clip.
A lot of people who pulled, you know, the ballot for Donald Trump last year, they didn't sign up for this, right? They voted for lower prices. They voted for lower taxes. They voted for traditional Republican values, smaller government, all those kinds of things. They're not getting that. I mean, I just read that the national debt passed $37 trillion in August, passed $38 trillion last week.
That's a trillion dollars in two months, right? They're not getting the small government. I don't think they voted for militarized cities. I don't think they voted for extrajudicial killings off the coast, or not even off the coast, 2,000 miles from the coast in Venezuela, right? So I think the MAGA wing of the Republican Party are overplaying their hands.
And I think the only way we get past it is for them to start losing elections.
And then Gisler gives, this needs to be studied by Democratic candidates. Because look, this Gisler guy, he's not flashy. He's not wah, wah, wah. You know, he's not doing a shtick, right? This is a guy from Georgia who's like, look, I'm running for a state office. I'm going to try to make your lives better. And let me explain to you what's happening here and what people are telling me.
He's like, here's what people in Oconee are saying to me. Here's what people in Clark are telling me. Here's what's happening to our school districts. Here's what's happening in our communities. Just listen to what he says here, play this clip.
This is a state government position, right? And if you pay attention to what's been happening at the state level for the last several years, there's a lot of things that have not gone well, right? You know, we mentioned the abortion ban. I think most voters agree that that's not the right way to do it. We never expanded Medicaid. I think that's still possible.
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Chapter 4: What factors contributed to Gissler's unexpected victory?
It gets a little weird because of this new bill that came out. I think it's still possible to do it. It's harder to do and you don't expand quite as much, but it's still possible. And without it, we've seen rural hospitals closing all around the state. You know, we're looking at 750,000 Georgians are about to be priced out of insurance January, in January. That's a crisis.
That's on top of the, I think it's 1.2 million Georgians who don't have any insurance at all right now. You put those two together, that's 2 million out of 11 million Georgia citizens that have no access to healthcare. The SNAP stuff was 1.4 million Georgians. Would it be 1.4 million Georgians that were dependent on SNAP for nutritional assistance?
if the minimum raise had been raised a few years ago? Probably not, right? People would probably be able to make ends meet a little bit better. And we talked about how many Georgians are about to go without insurance. Those of us who have insurance through an employer, it's not that great either. I don't know about you, but I'm paying a pretty hefty premium every month and a $5,000 deductible.
So, I mean, I'm paying thousands of dollars every year just to have insurance and then thousands of dollars on top of that if I use it, right? It's crazy, you look at car insurance. Georgia has one of the highest car insurance rates, premiums, in the Southeast, higher than all of our neighbors. Housing, I mean, I've almost lost the question that you asked me at this point.
I could just go on and on. Things on your platform that you are really passionate about. Housing, I know that's a big issue here in Athens. It doesn't seem like it's as big as one in Oconee, But the truth is housing prices going up and the supply not keeping up, supply and demand, economics one-on-one, right?
If you don't have enough houses for the people, then the prices of those houses are gonna go up, right? We're seeing that in Athens, we need more supply at the end of the day. At the state level, we can pass incentives for local governments to change their zoning or maybe incentivize them to approve more dense, plans, housing plans.
People don't think that's impacting Oconee County, but you think about it, why do most people move to Oconee County? You probably know, right? It's a school system. It's one of the best school systems in the state, if not the country. People like to move there. And who moves for school systems? It's young families.
Well, if things keep going the way they are in Oconee County, young families aren't gonna be able to afford there, to live there. And I think a lot of people out there don't even see it coming, but it's there, it's on the horizon.
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Chapter 5: What does the shift in voter demographics reveal about the election?
And then from Donald Trump's speech in Pennsylvania at a small casino, he did it at Mount Airy Casino. He did it in like a wedding reception area. That's what Trump's been reduced to. No offense, I'm sure it could be a nice wedding venue, but this is where Trump's rallies are and tiny wedding venues. Here's what Donald Trump says.
He goes, they said prices are high, but they're going down substantially. Play this clip.
You know, and I said it the other day, and a lot of people misinterpreted. They say, oh, he doesn't realize prices are coming down very substantially. But they have a new word. You know, they always have a hoax. The new word is affordability. So they look at the camera and they say, this election is all about affordability. Now, they never talk about it. They never talk. Thank you very much.
They say I'm not allowed to run. I don't know what the hell that's all about, but that's okay. He said four more years.
You see the new hat, we have four more years. Now, you'll also recall in Georgia, back when the blue tsunami hit in early November, do you remember that in Georgia, two of the statewide Georgia Public Service Commission positions flipped? And it was one of the first times you saw a major statewide race flip like this in like decades. This was a big, big deal.
and they were both nearly 30 point shifts. So the Public Service Commission C2 shifted from an R plus two to a D, Democrat plus 25. C3 flipped from an R plus two to a D plus 26. That was on the Tuesday in November when that blue tsunami hit as well. And folks, you know, I'm certainly no Marjorie Taylor Greene fan, even as she's reinvented herself as this anti-Trump crusader.
I think a lot of it is BS, but I'm glad she's speaking out about Donald Trump, but she added to the toxicity in our politics, and I'm no Marjorie Taylor Greene fan. She knows Georgia. I mean, she's won a lot of elections there in her congressional district. And she sees what's going on there with Republicans.
Here's Marjorie Taylor Greene talking about how Donald Trump bragging that the economy is doing well is the worst political move. And she talked about those Georgia statewide races back from the Tuesday in November where the blue tsunami hit. Here, play this clip.
And so I think it's absolutely the worst move and it's the worst political move to have the House in recess and for us to not be here working.
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Chapter 6: How did young voters influence the election results in Georgia?
Yes, sir.
You know, when you accept Donald Trump's endorsement, when you when he tweets out and puts out on there that he believes in you because you agree with his vision when it comes to migrant crime and the rest of it. I'm curious, do you support the president's policies when it comes to rounding up immigrants? 60% of the residents of the city of Miami were born outside of the United States.
The vast majority of the people who are being detained, who are being picked up, do not have criminal records. Are you supportive and will you help Donald Trump enforce that policy?
Well, you just said it. I support rounding up people who commit crimes. The president says that I support putting down migrant criminals. I cannot in good conscience fight the federal government and defend a rapist or a murderer like happens in other cities.
But the majority of the people being picked up right now are not rapists.
Yes, but the majority, what you're talking about is a federal issue. This is a federal issue that has to do with Homeland Security. This is not an issue that has to do with the mayor of Miami. Now, mind you, I know who to talk to. I've been the immigration director. I can advocate for our community, which I certainly will.
I plan on adding an immigration services staff member to help guide us through this. But this is not a topic that you want to just take on the president for it. It's ludicrous. The president sees Florida as very important. He sees Miami as very important. And he has backed me because he feels that I have the leadership qualities to bring the city forward.
I want to bring Eileen in on this just on the issue of immigration policy and the next mayor of Miami. He's absolutely right. Mayor of Miami does not have say over a federal immigration policy, but there is a sense that if Donald Trump is supporting you, that there is a tacit agreement with the policy. Are you concerned by what's happening in the city of Miami?
I'm very concerned with what's happening in the city of Miami. for two reasons. First of all, they said they were going to go after criminals, but guess what? They're going after everybody. Every time I am out in our neighborhoods, people are telling me the story of someone they know, a friend, a relative, that has had something happen to them, including going to Alligator Alcatraz.
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Chapter 7: What implications does Gissler's win have for future elections?
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