LIVE: Keisha Lance Bottoms Joins Sen. Ossoff, Gov. Beshear at Atlanta Campaign Event

Oh yeah, I would love to go vote. I don't know where I can go vote. I don't know when I can go vote. You can click on through the details section of a particular targeted voter and you can see their polling place. But here in Fulton County, they can vote at any polling place during early voting, which stops on the 30th. So on polling place, they have to wait in line at their polling place on E-Day. so yeah so when you are going through you're going to have a couple of options in terms of what it looks like for when you knock on their door or you're unable to knock on their door if you knock on their door and no one is home we're going to click the simple not home and then we're going to leave a packet of literature there the literature is so important that we get it to people because it is designed in such a way that people can take it to the polls with them and use it to vote. They can't distribute it there, but they can use it to help them vote because it has the names of all of our Democrats, including local candidates. So even if we're unable to talk to people, we want to leave lit. And ideally we stick it in their door in like little seam so that it just doesn't blow away. But at least personally, if somebody answers the door and there's multiple people in the household, everybody gets their own piece of lit because we're not going to share it around when we go vote we each need one to help us to go vote so an important thing about how minivan works and how canvassing works is that we only want to somebody cannot speak for somebody else in the household so the last thing i'm going to leave you guys with is that once um when we try a door and let's say there are some kind of inaccessible gate or apartments that they do not let us go inside of or that we cannot get to we're going to mark that as inaccessible inaccessible does not mean that there's like a small little latch gate to keep the dog in inaccessible doesn't mean that the walk-up is difficult or that there's like a dirt road or some other kind of thing inaccessible means that we cannot knock that door we're prevented so that i hope that is understood all right so i hope everybody is ready and able to knock doors we'll be deep uh checking in with you all as the canvassing goes on and you can speak with myself or another staff member if you're still unsure and have more questions. Is there any questions right now? Good morning, Atlanta. I hope we're all excited to knock on some doors to help re-elect some great candidates. And I have the absolute pleasure of introducing you all to Governor Andy Beshear of Kentucky. He's a real example of what happens when we elect Democrats. This year, I'm the proud of the Kentucky. I had to beat Mitch McConnell's hand-picked candidate by five points. And I've beaten Donald Trump endorsed candidates two straight elections in a state he won by 30 points. So I am living, breathing proof that Democrats can win anywhere and we should be fighting everywhere. And I know how it feels to be a Southern Democrat, to be left behind sometime, to be looked down upon. but we are scrapping our way back to the table. We have three southern democratic governors and we're going to have a fourth when we elect Keisha Lance Bottoms as governor of Georgia. Two southern U.S. senators that are democrats and when we re-elect John Ossoff and Roy Cooper we're going to have election is absolutely critical. Just look at the damage the Trump administration is doing. Everybody's paying $4,500 more this year for the same stuff you bought last year. You're paying $800 more to fill up your gas tank this year than you did last year. And if you're a state like mine with rural hospitals, that big, ugly bill threatens the future of virtually every part of your state. If we're going to undo that big, ugly bill, we must re-elect John Ossoff and take the U.S. Senate this November. And let me tell you, we are all in on Keisha Lance Bottoms. I'm here to announce today that over these last nine days we're going to invest another five million dollars to put her over the top. Democrat governors, we do things Republicans can't. We govern well. Our last Democratic governor in Kentucky expanded Medicaid. We covered 600,000 of my neighbors that had never had coverage before. Keisha Lance Bottoms is going to expand Medicaid finally here in the state of Georgia. Elect Democratic governors. We invest in education, in good jobs, in safe roads and bridges in public safety the types of things that lift everyone up and leave no one out it is absolutely critical especially with two more years of Donald Trump to know that Democrats are the last line of defense that stand up for our people that push back that say this is our democracy and you cannot take it so let me introduce you to your next governor of Georgia Keisha Lance But checks like that come and pick you up and bring you back here. I'm so honored to have a leader amongst leaders with the Democratic Governors Association, Governor Beshear here. Thank you so much. And then, of course, my brother, my friend, our Senator John Ossoff has done an incredible job on behalf of all of us. I know we've got Charlie Bailey here. Also, Rita Scott. Where are you, Rita? Thank you, our CWA retirees president and Ed Barlow. Thank you for hosting us today. Today, since the beginning of early voting, my mother has asked me one simple question. And that question has been, how long? And the answer is, not long. Election day, we are already breaking records across the state. We are showing people what's possible when we show up and we use our voices as our votes. So many things are on the table. As Governor Beshear has said, we know that Medicaid can be expanded in states with red legislators because we know that health care transcends party lines. It's an issue in our urban and our rural communities with 300,000 people not having health care because we've not expanded Medicaid. I've heard Senator Ossoff say that he and Senator Warnock even put billions in the budget to help sweeten the pot and it still didn't happen in Georgia but how long and Medicaid we will fully fund education in Georgia we will yes ensure that all of our four-year-olds have a seat in a pre-k classroom so that we can only be great for big business in Georgia but we can be great for small businesses like our farmers across this state who are struggling right now because of the tariffs from the Trump administration So with eight days to go, I am reminding everyone that it ain't over until it's over. While we have seen the momentum that we need to see this first week of early voting, we don't want to be overtaken on Election Day So I'm going to remind you of those 21 votes per precinct. That was the difference between the winner and loser on average in the 2018 governor's race. If you have already early voted, then call 21 other people Encourage them to do the same. You will see Senator Ossoff's name on the ballot. You will see my name on the ballot. And you will exercise whole ballot energy voting from the top to the bottom so we can finally blue and do the work that the people of Georgia deserve to have be done. So with that, I am so excited to stand with my friend and introduce my friend from the great state of Georgia Are you all ready to elect Keisha Lance Bottoms, the next governor of the great state of Georgia? Give it up as well for our friend from Kentucky, Governor Beshear. We are so pleased to host you and so grateful for your support for Keisha's efforts and all of our efforts. It's great to have you back in the Peach State. Welcome to all of you. We're here to knock on some doors, right? We're here to get out the vote, right? Are you all ready to work? Are you all ready to win? I, uh, Keisha just told the story about Medicaid expansion in Georgia. And you all know that we're living through a health care emergency here in our state. We have among the highest maternal mortality rates in the country. We have among the lowest infant weights at birth. We have among the fewest mental health care providers of any state. Low life expectancy. We've lost 21 hospitals in 20 years. It's been a choice that Georgia's Republican leaders have made Georgians pay the same federal taxes as everybody in every other state. Our state leaders have just refused to accept federal resources to help get people health insurance and to fund our clinics, hospitals, and nursing homes. Remember that 70% of Georgia seniors in nursing homes are covered by Medicaid. Half of all births in our state are covered by Medicaid. 40% of all kids in our state are covered by Medicaid And when you sent me and Raphael Warnock to the Senate in those historic double-header, double-overtime U.S. Senate runoffs when we shocked the country, do you all remember how it feels to win? When we shocked the country with those victories, Raphael and I got to work on behalf of Georgians We stood up to the drug companies and we capped the cost of insulin for seniors at $35 a month We capped out-of-pocket expenses for prescriptions for seniors here in Georgia and across the country. And then we did something else. We added $2 billion to the federal budget to sweeten the deal for Governor Kemp and our state legislature to do the right thing and finally expand Medicaid. And they still said no. And that decision has sentenced our fellow Georgians to needless suffering and disease and injury and even death. It is a matter of life or death. Elections have life or death consequences. We must expand Medicaid in Georgia, and that's why we must elect a Medicaid-expanding Governor Keisha Lance Bottoms. You all know that Keisha is a mother of four. Not only is Keisha committed to expanding Medicaid in Georgia, she's committed to guaranteeing every Georgia four-year-old pre-K. There are so many great things that we can achieve on behalf of our state. And the time has come for us to use the power that we have as citizens to elect Keisha our next governor and to rebuke this obscenity in Washington. You all saw the president was in Macon reminding everybody of his tariffs that have driven grocery prices to their record highs, of his war based on lies that's driven diesel prices to their record highs, of his healthcare cuts that have thrown hundreds of thousands of Georgians off their health insurance and doubled your health insurance premiums. Donald Trump came to Georgia to remind Georgians of his failure, that it costs more than ever in American history to fill up your truck, to power your home, to stock your fridge, or to go to the doctor. Let me repeat that for our friends here with the press. Donald Trump came to Georgia yesterday and reminded everybody that under Donald Trump and Mike Collins, it costs more than ever to fill up your truck, to stock your fridge, to power your home, or to go to the hospital. They cut our health care, they lied us into war, and these tariffs have been a disaster, putting Georgia families, Georgia businesses, and Georgia farmers under so much pressure. And all the while, he's launched attacks on civil rights and voting rights. You all saw he sent Tulsi Gabbard and the FBI to Fulton County, Georgia, to raid your ballots. Do you all remember that? But what a mistake he made, Keisha, coming to the cradle of the civil rights movement to launch that attack on voting rights. We're already seeing that the people's response is massive and determined and defiant. Let me share with you some things I hope will give you some hope. We are already shattering all-time records for youth turnout in a midterm election in the state of Georgia. And that is the work that you all are doing. That is the work that you all are doing, getting out the vote. When you go out there and you knock on these doors and you have these conversations with your neighbors, you're taking part in history. We're joined here by the tireless, effective, ferocious chair of Georgia's Democratic Party, Charlie Bailey. Give it up for Charlie. You're taking part in history by going out there and talking to your friends and to your neighbors. See, some people just happen to live at times and in places where what we do matters more. And this year, once again in Georgia, that's us. what a privilege it is for all of us to live in the pivotal battleground state at this pivotal moment in our history. What we do for these next eight days will change the course of Georgia's history, will change the course of American history. And once again, the whole country is looking to us here in Georgia to see what we stand for. Are you all ready to make a difference? Are you all ready to get out there and work? Are you all ready to defeat the bigot congressman Mike Collins? Are you all ready to elect Keisha Lance Bottoms our next governor and win this Senate race? Let's get out there and knock on some doors. Thank you so much for being here. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Atlanta, for coming out here. And thank you so much for getting ready to go and knock on doors. We're going to be making a line starting on the right here for photos. We're knocking on doors after photos. Oh, cool.