Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said on Thursday evening that the “right to vote” does not exist in Georgia, where she claimed people have “the opportunity to possibly think about maybe being able to participate in the right to vote.”
Abrams, who refused to concede to Brian Kemp and has been declaring to various audiences in recent months that she “won” the 2018 election, told the Democratic National Committee’s African-American Leadership Council Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, that “we will never know what could have been” because polling places were closed and voter rolls were purged. (Dead people or not living in State)
“When 1.4 million Georgians get purged in one person’s administration, including 800,000 because they didn’t use a voluntary right, when one county can forget to send out 4,700 absentee ballots, when another county can have a rate of rejection that exceeds almost 10 percent, you don’t have the right to vote in the state of Georgia,” Abrams said. “We have the opportunity to possibly think about maybe being able to participate in the right to vote in the state of Georgia. And what we found on that day in that election is that we don’t know the truth because there wasn’t a fair fight.”
Abrams praised Democrats for talking about voter suppression weeks after signaling that she will enter the race if Democrats are not speaking about issues—like voter suppression—that she thinks will be the most important for 2020.
“And whether we have 23, 24, 25, or 150 candidates for president, we should demand from every single person an adherence to the values that we hold to be true. They must speak about voter suppression every day until every person who is legally entitled to vote has the right to vote in the United States of America,” Abrams said last month. “When we see our voters and we give them their voices, we will see the change we need in America, and we will survive for another generation.”
Abrams, who still has not closed the door on a potential 2020 presidential bid, recently paid off her IRS, student loan, and credit card debts and has said that she believes she could still win the nomination if she enters the race in the fall after the first round of debates.
Stacey Abrams: Breitbart Thinks I’m ‘Delusional’ for Insisting I ‘Won’ in 2018
Damn Right you are!
Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Thursday evening said she is “fairly certain” that Breitbart News will think she is “delusional” for again insisting that she “won” Georgia’s gubernatorial election.
Abrams refused to concede to Brian Kemp after losing by fewer than 55,000 votes, and she told the Democratic National Committee’s African-American Leadership Council Summit in Atlanta, Georgia, that she thinks Democrats “are going to win in 2020” in Georgia because “we won in 2018.”
“Now, I’m fairly certain that Breitbart and Daily Caller are now spinning up the memes that will tell everyone that I am delusional and a liar,” Abrams said before saying she wanted to “tell you my point.” “When we think that elections are about politicians, we are confused. When we believe that elections end with the counting of votes, we are wrong. Elections are about people. They’re about ideas. They’re about values. And they’re about the progress we can make as a people. And in 2018, we made progress in the state of Georgia.”
Abrams said she “transformed the electorate” in 2018 by tripling the Latino and Asian Pacific-Islander vote, getting 25 percent of the white vote, and increasing youth voter participation by 139 percent. She also said she got 1.2 black Georgians to vote for her after mentioning that 1.1 Democrats voted in Georgia in 2012.
“The reality is that we transformed the electorate, but I am aware that I am not governor of Georgia. I am not,” Abrams said, before taking another swipe at Kemp. “I’m not exactly certain who is, but I am not. Because there’re jobs to be done but I think they’re going unfulfilled right now, but that’s a conversation for another time.”
Abrams has gone from coast to coast insisting that she “won” in 2018 and whining about how she is not governor because of voter suppression. She reportedly met with 2020 presidential candidates like South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and failed Texas Senate candidate Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke at the event.
“Stacey Abrams ought to be the governor of Georgia,” Buttigieg told the same audience. “When racially motivated voter suppression is permitted, when districts are drawn so that politicians get to choose their voters instead of the other way around, when money is allowed to outvote people in this country, we cannot truly say we live in a democracy.
While Buttigieg and even former Vice President Joe Biden said Abrams is not the governor because of voter suppression, O’Rourke interestingly reportedly conceded that Abrams may have “lost” her race, telling the crowd that Abrams “won a much larger battle for the country” even “though she may have technically and legally lost that election.”
Abrams still has not ruled out a 2020 presidential run and indicated last month that she will jump into the race if Democrats to do not speak about voter suppression “every day”on the stump, saying that she believes she can win the nomination even if she enters the race in the fall.
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