Charles Minshew

What does continue to perplex me is how it just keeps going.

Charles Minshew is the deputy managing editor of data journalism at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

Minshew first heard of the raid on social media.

While journalists were scrambling to figure out what was happening, online, he saw that some people already had answers.

She was in a live stream from the parking lot.

This is a great day to be here and to see that finally we'll be able to get the documents that we've wanted and now it's here.

Charles Minshew began to wonder, how did the president's supporters in Georgia, like Johnston, seem to know more about the raid than everyone else? So Minshew and a team of reporters started to put in records requests.

He began with the state election board.

This show features reporting from across the AJC newsroom.

Special thanks to Greg Blustein, Patricia Murphy, David Wickert, Tia Mitchell, Tamar Hallerman, Charles Minshew, Caleb Groves, and Thad Moore, who got access to the body camera footage.

The Final Tally was produced by Megan Nadolski, Kira Bowden-Goligorski, and Brad Lichtenstein from 371 Productions.

Samantha Stamler is head of audio at the AJC.

And the biggest one, Patricia, I think, is the fact that Just in general, Democratic-leaning counties are far overwhelming Republican-leaning counties.

In the counties that Donald Trump won, early voting turnout is about flat compared to this time in 2022, while in counties that Kamala Harris won in 2024, it's about one-fifth higher, according to an analysis by the AJC's Charles Minshew.

So that tells you a lot about where things are going.

You can also learn a lot by what the candidates themselves are saying.

it comes to early voting.

Let me start with this from the Atlanta Journal of Constitution's Greg Blustein and Charles Minshew.

I haven't heard that name before.

Is he new to the staff? Anyway, welcome to the conversation.