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Stacey Abrams: It Is ‘Wrong’ To Compare Her Refusal To Concede With Trump’s Stolen Election Rhetoric

ATLANTA — Stacey Abrams on Monday cautioned against conflating her refusal to concede in the 2018 Georgia governor’s race with former President Donald Trump’s false claims of a stolen election, calling the latter wrong and dangerous for democracy. “I will never ever say that it is OK to claim fraudulent outcomes as a way to give yourself power,” Abrams said. “That is wrong. I reject it and will never engage in it. But I do believe that it is imperative, especially those who have the platform and the microphone, to talk about the access.” Abrams acknowledged her loss to Kemp days after the 2018 election. But she attributed that defeat — by less than 1.4 percentage points — to efforts by Kemp, then the secretary of state, to suppress voter turnout. Kemp denied the allegations. “The issues...

Stacey Abrams To Run For Georgia Governor In 2022

Stacey Abrams, the Democratic former minority leader in the Georgia House of Representatives and the first Black woman to be on the major-party ticket in a U.S. gubernatorial race, announced her second bid to become Georgia’s governor on Wednesday. The announcement sets her up for a potential 2022 rematch against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, who defeated her in a bitter 2018 campaign. Abrams, a voting rights activist lauded by Democrats for driving voter turnout in Joe Biden’s favor in Georgia during the 2020 presidential election, has become one of the most prominent voices in the country on voting rights issues and the disenfranchisement of Black voters. After losing her previous race — and alleging that voter suppression organized by Kemp, who was then Georgia’s secretary of state, pl...

Abrams Counters Trump With a Compelling Vision for America

A clear alternative to the prevailing nihilism followed the president’s State of the Union address. What did we expect from the 2019 Trump State of the Union? This annual ritual of a president coming into The People’s House to deliver a national health check-up has become political theater. Presidents use the stage to make a case for their policies in the year to come. The script for many years has been a list of carefully market-tested proposals. Tuesday night’s address was different. For one, this was Donald Trump, making what is probably his last best effort to save his border wall from legislative doom. He wasn’t going to pivot to centrism the way any other president might in order to set up a re-election run. He also wasn’t likely to stick to a script, even as he visi...