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Four-term congressman defeats Democrat Bourdeaux in once safe GOP seat Georgia Republican Rep. Rob Woodall barely survived his re-election against Democrat Carolyn Bourdeaux, prevailing in a recount two weeks after Election Day. Woodall led Bourdeaux by just 419 votes after the first count, which was a slim enough margin for the challenger to request a recount. The four-term congressman’s margin grew to 433 votes after Wednesday’s recount, and Bourdeaux conceded in the afternoon, shortly before The Associated Press called the race.

Georgia’s hotly contested election for governor was neither fair nor free, former Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams said in a Monday night interview. Abrams, who announced on Friday that she was ending her gubernatorial bid, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes that her Republican opponent Brian Kemp had for years undermined democracy as Georgia’s secretary of state. “It was not a free and fair election,” Abrams said. “We had thousands of Georgians who were purged from the rolls wrongly, including a 92-year-old woman who had voted in the same area since 1968 ― a civil rights leader.”

FM stations in south GA are still running Stacey Abrams paid radio ads (on black-rap stations - recruiting people who could claim they had "any problems voting" .... No "concession " eh?

Democrat Stacey Abrams says she can’t win the Georgia governor’s race, effectively ending her challenge to Republican Brian Kemp. Her speech Friday effectively puts a stop to the contest. The final result had been in doubt for 10 days after the election.

Rest of Headline: Federal Judge Finds County In Violation of Civil Rights Act Over Rejected Absentee Ballots[snip] U.S. District Judge Leigh Martin May ruled on Tuesday that Gwinnett County in Georgia was in violation of the act by rejecting absentee ballots that showed an incorrect birth year or omitted the detail altogether. The judge acknowledged that the ruling comes as there are “many hotly contested and highly publicized elections issues across the state” but ultimately ruled that this particularly “small portion of the outstanding absentee ballots” should be counted.

A Georgia federal judge ruled in favor of Democrat Stacey Abrams’ campaign Monday night, ordering election officials to review thousands of provisional ballots that have not been counted in the contested election for governor. Judge Amy Totenberg, a New Yorker who serves on the Atlanta-based court, said that the race cannot be officially certified until those ballots were counted. Many voters have complained they were told at polling stations they weren’t registered and had to file provisional ballots. Abrams would need to gain more than 20,000 votes to force a runoff against Republican Brian Kemp.

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.” . . 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...

After a hard-fought and often nasty campaign, Georgia’s Secretary of State Brian Kemp has won the race to become the state’s next governor over House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams. Kemp eked out a victory with fewer than 70,000 votes separating him from Abrams. Quixotic Libertarian candidate Ted Metz picked up just over 37,000 votes. Howard Dean ✔ @GovHowardDean She should not concede. The election was almost certainly stolen by a candidate who supervised his own “election”

Rep. Karen Handel (R-Ga.) conceded Thursday in her tight House race in an Atlanta suburb to gun control activist Lucy McBath (D). The victory puts the Georgia district in Democratic hands more than a year after the party fell short last year in a heated special election that drew national attention. Handel ended up winning by about five points over Jon Ossoff.

County level results for the Nov. 6, 2018 Gubernatorial race between Stacey Abrams, Brian Kemp and Ted Metz.

Democrat Stacey Abrams is refusing to concede in Georgia’s governor’s race, despite unofficial returns giving Republican Brian Kemp 50.7 percent and Abrams 48.4 percent. “Democracy only works when we work for it, when we fight for it, when we demand it, and apparently today when we stand in line for hours to meet it at the ballot box,” Abrams told supporters early Wednesday morning. “I am here today to tell you there are votes remaining to be counted. Voices are waiting to be heard.” Her campaign manager Lauren Groh-Wargo told the crowd that absentee and provisional ballots have not yet...

FULL TITLE: 'You're going to have a chance to do a do-over!' Stacey Abrams REFUSES to concede Georgia governor's race as she predicts absentee ballots will shrink Republican foe's lead enough to trigger December runoff A defiant Stacey Abrams refused to concede the Georgia governor's race early Wednesday morning, telling her Demorcatic supporters that despite trailing by about 3 percentage points she expected to come back enough to trigger a December runoff. 'You're going to have a chance to do a do-over,' she said, talking to voters in a state where nearly 3.8 million people cast votes in a contest...

AP has Brian Kemp 52.7%, Stacey Abrams 46.3% with 93% counted.

Candidate Party Votes Percentage Brian Kemp GOP 630,441 63% Stacey Abrams Dem 369,931 37% Ted Metz Lib 6,855 1% Total 1,007,227 23% Reporting 618 of 2,634 Precincts

Here in Hall County, GA- Murrayville specifically, the election official stated the number of voters exceeded 2016 totals by TWO PM today. RECORD turnout in red red red North Hall County. THAT is great news.

Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp is leading Democrat Stacey Abrams in a new poll just days before the Georgia governor’s election. Kemp has broken away with a 12-point lead against Abrams in a Trafalgar Group poll of about 2,200 likely voters in Georgia. The poll reveals that nearly 50 percent of voters are decided on Kemp while only 35.9 percent say they will vote for Abrams. Another nearly three percent of voters say they are leaning towards voting for Kemp, while 4.2 percent are leaning towards Abrams. Less than four percent of voters are undecided, according to the poll.

Black Panthers campaigned for Democrat Stacey Abrams in Georgia this weekend. Because nothing says “Get Out the Vote” like a few big guns. The firearms they are carrying: (l to r) Spas 12, AK-47, Scar-H or Scar-L (depending on caliber) Hat Tip Mike and Andrea UPDATE: Another expert wrote this about the firearms: SCAR17, C39V2 and a Remington model 870 with a law enforcement folder.

During a November 4 appearance on CNN’s State of the Union Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) admitted that a possible outcome of her gun control plans could be that “people would turn their guns in.” Tapper reminded the viewing audience that Abrams co-sponsored Georgia HB 731 on January 2016. He pointed out that Abrams’ co-sponsors admitted the bill would “require gun owners of these particular models to turn their guns in.” Abrams did not try to hide her support for HB 731, rather, she said that was simply the beginning of “a conversation.” She then made clear that as...

MACON, Georgia — It was a rally like no other in Peach State history for a midterm election. As the late Larry Munson, who called University of Georgia football games on the radio for decades, might have said, “President Donald Trump stepped on the record books with a hobnail boot and broke their bindings.”

Donald Trump is in Macon, Georgia, at 4 p.m. Eastern for the first of today's two campaign stops. Fox News reports crowd already there waiting. Should be good!