Sen. Lindsey Graham

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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., listens during a hearing on the fiscal year 2023 budget for the FBI in Washington, on May 25, 2022. Attorneys for Graham said in a court filing on July 13, he wasn't trying to interfere in Georgia's 2020 election when he called state officials to ask them to reexamine certain absentee ballots after President Donald Trump's narrow loss to Democrat Joe Biden.

Credit: Ting Shen/Pool Photo via AP, File

The panel: 

Adrienne Jones, @adriennemjns, Professor of political science and director, pre-law, Morehouse College

Margaret Coker, @mideastmargaret, Editor in chief, The Current

Maria Saporta, @mariasaporta , Editor, The Saporta Report

Patricia Murphy, @MurphyAJC, Political reporter and columnist, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

 

The breakdown: 

1. Sen. Lindsey Graham must come to Georgia to testify in Fulton County probe. 

 

2. Abrams is behind in the polls with Black male voters. 

  • An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll last month showed the Democratic nominee for governor was behind projections with Black voters, with about 80% of the vote. 
  • Abrams is also significantly trailing Gov. Brian Kemp among male voters, 57% to 33%.

 

3. Abrams is all in on legalizing gambling while Kemp folds. 

 

4. Mar-a-Lago warrants are unsealed by the Department of Justice. 

  • The records reveal the FBI removed 11 classified documents while executing last week's search at the 45th president's home.

LISTEN: Patricia Murphy speaks on the continued fallout from the FBI's search of Mar-a-Lago.

5. Worries about rising gun violence in the metro Atlanta area. 

LISTEN: Maria Saporta speaks on the complex relation between state gun laws and cities' gun violence concerns.

Tuesday on Political RewindThe Atlanta Journal Constitution's Tamar Hallerman joins us.