{"id":4158,"date":"2020-11-15T19:32:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T19:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emoryhistorynews.wordpress.com\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2020-11-15T19:32:25","modified_gmt":"2020-11-15T19:32:25","slug":"crespino-in-the-new-york-times-what-democrats-are-up-against-in-georgia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/2020\/11\/15\/crespino-in-the-new-york-times-what-democrats-are-up-against-in-georgia\/","title":{"rendered":"Crespino in &#8216;The New York Times&#8217;: &#8220;What Democrats Are Up Against in Georgia&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Jimmy Carter Professor of History and History Department Chair Joseph Crespino published an opinion piece in <em>The New York Times<\/em> over the weekend. Titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/14\/opinion\/democrats-georgia-senate-runoff.html\">What Democrats Are Up Against in Georgia<\/a>,&#8221; the article examines how Georgia&#8217;s distinctive political culture and history will shape the state&#8217;s two runoff elections for the U.S. Senate. Read an excerpt below along with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/14\/opinion\/democrats-georgia-senate-runoff.html\">full piece<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p><em>\u201cMr. Trump\u2019s delusional tweets declaring that he won the election or teasing new revelations of fraud and corruption evoke a similar sense of living in a dream world. The good news for Georgians is that on Jan. 5 they have an opportunity to send a wake-up call. Two Democratic victories would not only give Democrats control of the Senate but could also help turn the page on Donald Trump\u2019s influence in American politics.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Carter Professor of History and History Department Chair Joseph Crespino published an opinion piece in The New York Times over the weekend. Titled &#8220;What Democrats Are Up Against in Georgia,&#8221; the article examines how Georgia&#8217;s distinctive political culture and history will shape the state&#8217;s two runoff elections for the U.S. Senate. Read an excerpt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1282,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-public-scholarship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1282"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scholarblogs.emory.edu\/emoryhistorynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}