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Raphael Warnock: “State officials in Georgia looked at the anatomy of my…”

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Published | Video Starts at 04:26

So what's your response to that kind of logic? Well, the folks who say that don't know how it got here. Even in my last runoff, State officials in Georgia looked at the anatomy of my victory in the runoff, which by the way, is itself a vestige of the Jim Crow South. They cut the runoff in half. And as we in terms of the number of weeks, and then as we were going into the runoff that weekend, state officials in Georgia said, sorry, you can't vote first weekend of the runoff. (04:26–04:37)

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Asserts that the runoff election system in Georgia is a remnant of Jim Crow laws.

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