Posted on 08/19/2019 10:35:19 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Stacey Abrams defended her refusal to concede last year’s Georgia gubernatorial election on Monday, arguing that adhering to the democratic norm of conceding to a victorious opponent would make her “complicit” in a “rigged” system.
Abrams has consistently refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of Republican Brian Kemp’s November gubernatorial victory and cites the dynamics of her loss as the motivating factor behind the launch of her national voting-rights-advocacy group Fair Fight 2020. During a Monday appearance on CBS This Morning, Abrams pushed back on the suggestion that her denial of the election result’s legitimacy resembles President Trump’s 2016 flirtation with the idea that he might refuse to accept the presidential election results if he was defeated.
“There’s a lot that’s been made of the fact that I did not concede my election,” she said. “But I never denied the legal sufficiency of that election, and that’s the difference between me and Trump. He refuses to acknowledge the legal sufficiency or threatens not to, but my point is that the laws are wrong. We have to fix those laws because as long as we have eligible American citizens who cannot cast a ballot, then the game is rigged.”
The failed gubernatorial candidate went on to argue that modern “voter suppression” efforts are more “insidious” than they were in the 1960’s because they are less blatant than the laws imposed under Jim Crow.
Abrams lost to Kemp by almost 55,000 votes but has maintained that the outcome was the product of Kemp’s voter-suppression efforts, which, she argues, were facilitated by his retaining his position as Georgia secretary of state while he ran for governor.
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This is how Civil Wars start.
Yes it’s ‘rigged’.
It’s rigged so that whoever gets the most votes wins.............
Yes, the game is rigged.
By you.
Abrams has consistently refused to acknowledge the legitimacy of Republican Brian Kemp’s November gubernatorial victory..
Who gives a ####?
She is right. But the game is rigged in her favor.
Projection. She lost IN SPITE OF it being rigged for her. :)
She and Hillary! need to team up for a, ‘50-State Sore Losers Tour!’
*Rolleyes*
Yeesh! Just shaddap, already!
Legal sufficiency? Is that some sort of Ebonics term?
If only it were so ...
What an original thought.
You are correct.
Yup! Georgia politics is as honest as Illinois’ Arizona’s and Orange County Cal.
Just another ABW.
Sore loser.
She spends her life race-baiting, and it is working: black voters in GA are convinced that their votes were stolen.
Show them to me, Stacey. Put up or shut up........
https://www.politico.com/election-results/2018/georgia/
Women need to get out of this game before it gets any worse...
Apparently Dean Wormer was wrong! You can go through life fat & stupid!
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