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'A disgrace to democracy': Brian Kemp pushes Stacey Abrams to concede
Washington Times ^ | November 11, 2018 | Jay Reeves

Posted on 11/11/2018 5:06:35 AM PST by kevcol

Republican Brian Kemp is pressing Democrat Stacey Abrams to concede Georgia’s tight gubernatorial race as civil rights groups urge her to stay and fight.

Kemp’s campaign issued a statement Saturday that said it was mathematically impossible for Abrams to even force a runoff, much less win outright. It called Abrams’ refusals to concede “a disgrace to democracy” that “completely ignore the will of the people.”
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On Saturday, she released a statement that she had met with voters who experienced difficulties casting ballots. She said her campaign had heard stories of voters turned away from the polls, students and military members who requested absentee ballots that never arrived or were “lost in the mail” - and first-time and longtime voters who found their names were “no longer on the list.”

She vowed to continue to fight.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Georgia
KEYWORDS: 2018elections; 2018midterms; briankemp; ga2018; gagovernor; staceyabrams
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To: kevcol

Why concede when you can win by doing the wrong thing.


61 posted on 11/11/2018 4:08:21 PM PST by dforest (Never let a Muslim cut your hair.)
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