Posted on 04/29/2019 1:14:23 PM PDT by Red Badger
Democrat Stacey Abrams said she is comfortable saying "I won" the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election because "something happened" regarding voter suppression to push Republican Brian Kemp to victory.
In an interview with New York Times Magazine, Abrams said she continues to claim victory because of the "totality of information" about the election and also because she transformed the Georgia electorate. Abrams lost by nearly 55,000 votes to Kemp in the closest Georgia governor's race in decades, but she earned nearly 50,000 more votes than Hillary Clinton did in the state in 2016 and won more votes than any Democrat in state history.
However, she has continued to claim the race was stolen from her through voter suppression tactics by Kemp, who was secretary of state before being elected governor.
"Is there any fear on your part that using that kind of language fans the same flames that President Trump has fanned about delegitimizing our elections?" reporter David Marchese asked.
"I see those as very different," Abrams said. "Trump is alleging voter fraud, which suggests that people were trying to vote more than once. Trump offers no empirical evidence to meet his claims. I make my claims based on empirical evidence, on a demonstrated pattern of behavior that began with the fact that the person I was dealing with was running the election. If you look at my immediate reaction after the election, I refused to concede. It was largely because I could not prove what had happened, but I knew from the calls that we got that something happened. Now, I cannot say that everybody who tried to cast a ballot would’ve voted for me, but if you look at the totality of the information, it is sufficient to demonstrate that so many people were disenfranchised and disengaged by the very act of the person who won the election that I feel comfortable now saying, ‘I won.'"
"My larger point is, look, I won because we transformed the electorate, we turned out people who had never voted, we outmatched every Democrat in Georgia history. But voter suppression is endemic, and it's having a corrosive effect. If we do not resolve this problem, it will harm us all."
"It's one thing to say you lost that election unfairly, and it’s another to say you won because you increased voter turnout. But can you clarify for me exactly what you’re implying when you say you ‘won' that election?" Marchese asked.
"There are three things: No. 1, I legally acknowledge that Brian Kemp secured a sufficient number of votes under our existing system to become the governor of Georgia," Abrams said. "I do not concede that the process was proper, nor do I condone that process. No. 2, I believe we won in that we transformed the electorate and achieved a dramatic increase in turnout. It was a systemic and, I think, sustainable change in the composition of the electorate and in the transformation of the narrative about Georgia and Georgia politics. Three, I have no empirical evidence that I would have achieved a higher number of votes. However, I have sufficient and I think legally sufficient doubt about the process to say that it was not a fair election."
Other top Democrats like Clinton, former Attorney General Eric Holder, Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.), and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D., Ohio) have said Abrams won or had the election stolen from her.
However, the Free Beacon and other news sites have done fact-checks that show Abrams's claims don't hold water. Voter participation rose from 43 percent in 2014 to 57 percent in 2018 in Georgia, and overall voter registration rose 20 percent during Kemp's tenure. Abrams blamed Kemp for the closing of rural precincts that were outside his purview, and her claim that she put 53,000 voters "on hold" to stop them from exercising their rights was deceptive. He also was accused of "purging" voter rolls when he was enforcing state law to remove inactive voters.
Abrams is considering a run for the U.S. Senate against Sen. David Perdue (R., Ga.) or the White House in 2020. She also could pass up both and try again for the governorship in 2022, when Kemp will likely seek re-election.
Her popularity has declined since her loss, however. A recent Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll showed her at 45 percent unfavorability in Georgia, a high number for a politician out of office.
Whatever, Ms. Thang.
America is getting stupider by the day.
it was real in her mind.
Is it a prerequisite to be a smart a$$ to qualify as a Rat politician??
LOSER!
Low IQ people must be believed!
No, just a DUMBA$$............................
REALITY CHECK--- WALL STREET JOURNAL: Democracy Succeeds in Georgia
Despite loser Stacey Abrams' claims of voter suppression, the voting data in Georgia showed a record turnout.
By Wall Street Journal Editorial Board, Nov. 19, 2018
EXCERPT Republican Brian Kemp was declared Georgia’s Governor-elect, yet Democrats are trying to rob him of legitimacy by accusing him of stealing the election. The Democrats usual tricks---hoping to benefit politically by undermining faith in American democracy.
At the last tally on Sunday, Mr. Kemp led Democrat Stacey Abrams by about 55,000 votes or 1.4 percentage points. She finally acknowledged Mr. Kemp’s victory on Friday, though her non-concession concession makes crabby Hillary Clinton sound like a gracious loser.
--snip---rest at WSJ web site
As Georgia's Secy of State, Kemp actually OPENED the voting process to MORE people----this hugely benefited Stacey Abrams.
She vainly tried to invoke the ugly spectre of Jim Crow, but Abrams would have lost by bigger margins were if not for Secy of State Brian Kemp's numerous pro-voting actions......including initiating online measures.
“If you look at my immediate reaction after the election, I refused to concede. It was largely because I could not prove what had happened, but I knew from the calls that we got that something happened.”
Ah. “geometric logic”
Taint like the “Old Days” of Kennedys when Chitown talked to Texas and said: How Many Votes Do You Need ?
That's a lot of words to say "I lost."
If she's this wordy, imagine if she DID become governor!
Say it all you want. You can say you’re a freaking swimsuit model for all I care. You’re an 8 year old Korean boy. Whatever.
Delusion is da Nile overflowing.
5.56mm
People don't like bitter women, ask Hillary.
It’s 2019 and in liberals eyes a loss is a win because victimhood plays well in the drive byes.
Consider the lefts hope being placed in a guy whose greatest accomplishment was losing to Ted Cruz even after being flooded with communist red dollars from hollywood. But who cares about that, he has a cool skateboard so I guess that alone qualifies him. @least for all those 16 year old voters of the future.
Sounds like a rip off of an ancient general who said, we can’t afford many victories like this one or we will be wiped out.
She might be insane, but the Left does not care about silly things like that. She’s a tax cheat and a liar, but the Left thinks those are like badges of honor. She’s an avowed Socialist. Stated she was going to raise taxes. Stated she was going to ban ARs and confiscate guns. Said that anyone in the agriculture business is an idiot. Stated that she thinks illegals should be allowed to vote.
But, as I’ve stated so many times before, all the Southern Governors, so willing to offer their states and tax coffers to any company that will move, are changing the demographics in each of them. If the demographics in Georgia keep going the way they’re going, either she or someone like her will be Governor, soon.
Too many northern liberals, liberal hipsters, illegals and black’s that still vote Dem, are moving into the state. All her votes came from the urban areas around Fulton/Atlanta, Columbus, Savannah, and Augusta. As with, pretty much every state in the country, the cities either control or will control everything. Time for the states to adopt some type of electoral college to prevent the urban liberals from telling the rest of us what to do.
She can also “be comfortable” saying she’s a Size 8 however fervently she wants, but that doesn’t make it so.
Based on her logic Japan won WW2.
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