Stacey Abrams may be out of the race for Georgia’s Governor, but it’s clear we haven’t seen the last of her. The Democrat ended her run in Georgia’s Gubernatorial race, but refused to officially concede to Republican Brian Kemp saying there is a “larger conversation to be had, which was about the erosion of democracy in Georgia.” She says this of Georgia’s next Governor, “Brian Kemp oversaw for eight years the dismantling of our democracy and that meant there could not be free and fair elections in Georgia this year.”
She has vowed to keep fighting telling MSNBC’s Chris Hayes (watch above):
“We had thousands of Georgians who were purged from the rolls wrongly. Including a 92-year-old woman who had voted in the area since 1968, a civil rights leader.
It was not fair to the thousands who were forced to wait in long lines because they were in polling places that’s were under resourced, or worse, they had no poling places to go to because more than 300 had been closed.
It was not fair to the thousands who had been put on hold with their registrations.
And it was not fair to those who filled out absentee ballots. And depending on the county you sent it to, it was counted or not counted, assuming you received it in time.”
Abrams does feel victorious in certain aspects. Here’s part of Rolling Stone’s interview with her:
“Georgia is a purple state now, with the slimmest margins since 1966,” Abrams notes, matter-of-factly. “My opponent did not outperform Republican presidential candidates. I did. I outperformed Democratic presidential candidates, and what that signals is that this is a competitive state, and that the razor-thin margin is one without a difference, particularly if we can truly address with Fair Fight Georgia, with our lawsuits, but with also our infrastructure, if we can address electoral reforms in the state of Georgia,” Abrams adds. “That means that I did a good job!”
Abrams is also leaving the door open for another run for office, perhaps the Senate seat currently occupied by Republican David Perdue. It’s up for election in 2020.