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Stacey Abrams Showed Why Brian Kemp Should Be Terrified While Talking About Roe
Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said that Gov. Brian Kemp poses a danger to the lives of women in Georgia.
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Trump May Get Stacey Abrams Elected Governor By Having David Perdue Primary Brian Kemp
Trump is meddling in Georgia again, and this time he could very easily get Stacey Abrams elected governor.
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Stacey Abrams Gives America A Dose Optimism On Voting Rights Bills
Stacey Abrams expressed optimism that the Freedom To Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Act will pass. Video: Stacey Abrams tells Maddow that progress is being made on voting rights and, "I am very bullish on the likelihood that the Freedom To Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act will…
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Stacey Abrams Is Running For Georgia Governor In 2022 As GOP Nightmares Come True
Republicans have shown their fear of Stacey Abrams for years ever since she nearly was elected governor in 2018, and went on to build a formidable GOTV machine that turned Georgia in 2020. Now she is back and running again for governor.
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Stacey Abrams Backs Joe Manchin’s Voting Rights Compromise
Speaking to CNN, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and voting rights advocate Stacey Abrams says she supports Senator Joe Manchin’s (D-W. Va.) policy demands on voter reform for the Senate to pass the For the People Act. Manchin’s demands include banning partisan gerrymandering; requiring voter identification with new alternatives, such as a utility bill; mandating at…
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“Stop Stacey”: GOP Group Takes Aim at Abrams Over Possible 2022 Gubernatorial Run
Stacey Abrams is widely expected to run for Georgia Governor again after losing to incumbent Brian Kemp, a Republican, in 2018, a loss that galvanized activists in the state who said Abrams and her supporters were the targets of voter suppression. Since losing the race, Abrams has taken the problem of voter suppression head-on, launching…
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WATCH: Stacey Abrams Says Republicans Don’t Know How to Win Without Voter Suppression
Control of the United States senate will come down to a Georgia special election in early January. Republicans have traditionally fair well in Georgia’s special elections and David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler are incumbents. That doesn’t mean there aren’t positive signs for the Democrats as well. Joe Biden , of course, carried the state just…
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Newt Gingrich Falsely Accuses Stacey Abrams of “Stealing” Georgia Election
When President-elect Joe Biden won the state of Georgia, he became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since 1992. That achievement was in large part due to the efforts of former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, whose organization, Fair Fight, helped register a slew of new voters in the state. The Georgia…
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Analysis: Democrats Owe A Great Debt To Stacey Abrams For Electoral Math
The electoral math is holding. Joe Biden has the lead in Georgia. He is up by more than 9,000 votes with 99 percent of precincts reporting. Senator Chris Coons told MSNBC that Stacey Abrams brought a plan to him six years ago to flip Georgia blue: “We’ve got a very strong ground game in Georgia…
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Stacey Abrams: “To Safeguard The Future of Our Country, We Must Vote Trump Out of Office”
In an op-ed for USA Today, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams says “To safeguard the future of our country, we must vote” President Donald Trump out of office. “But this election is about more than who will be our next president,” she points out. “It’s an opportunity to ensure that our political system doesn’t…
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Stacey Abrams Says Trump’s Suggestion to Vote Twice Will Hurt “Good-Intentioned People”
Speaking to Yahoo News, former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said President Donald Trump’s suggestion for people to vote twice in November’s election will hurt “good-intentioned people.” Voting twice in the same election is illegal. “What’s most worrisome to me is that people who … were not the voters he was trying to encourage but…
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Stacey Abrams: “Willful Ignorance” Has Led U.S. Coronavirus Response
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams says the United States’ coronavirus response under President Donald Trump and the Republican Party has been characterized by “willful ignorance.” “One of the deep disappointments of the current administration is their willful ignorance and their willingness to ignore the challenges that present themselves in real time,” Abrams said in…
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Stacey Abrams Warns Trump Will “Steal the Vote by Undermining the Postal Service”
Stacey Abrams has suggested that Donald Trump may try to steal the election by refusing to help the U.S. Postal Service, which is currently facing the possibility of financial ruin. The Democratic and vice presidential contender told CNN’s Dana Bash on Sunday that letting the Postal Service go to the wall would severely impact mail-in…
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Opinion: Biden Must Take Up Van Jones’ Challenge, Guidance for Overcoming White Liberalism
CNN political commentator Van Jones recently issued a stark challenge to, and indeed indictment of, supposedly well-meaning White America, speaking in the wake of the police murders of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd and in the midst of mass uprisings and protests responding to the never-ending violence against African Americans. He states most directly that…
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Stacey Abrams Would Be “Willing to Serve” If Picked to Be Biden’s VP
Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams says she would be “willing to serve” if Joe Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, picks her to be his running mate. “As a young black girl growing up in Mississippi, I learned that if I didn’t speak up for myself no one else would,” Abrams told “Meet the Press”…
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Stacey Abrams: Brian Kemp’s Decision to Open Georgia’s Economy Has “No Logic”
Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate who lost to Governor Brian Kemp (R) following a contentious election riddled with accusations of voter fraud, says there is “no logic” to her former opponent’s decision to open the economy. “There is no logic and that’s part of the problem,” Abrams told View co-host Ana Navarro. “We only shut…
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Stacey Abrams Rips Brian Kemp For Reopening Georgia As Virus Cases Surge
Stacey Abrams called Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) incompetent after he announced that he is reopening the state within a week even as coronavirus cases surge.
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Opinion: Obama’s Endorsement Challenges Biden, Re-Imagines Presidency for the Future
Last Tuesday, former President Barack Obama gave his much-anticipated endorsement of his former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential candidacy. The endorsement was expected, of course, despite the wait Obama imposed, which seemed likely attributable to his preference to time his speech in the wake of Bernie Sanders’ own endorsement of Biden, creating a crescendo effect….
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Stacey Abrams on Joe Biden: “I Would Be an Excellent Running Mate”
Stacey Abrams, who became a political darling among Democrats following her Georgia gubernatorial campaign, says she would feel “honored” if chosen to be Joe Biden’s running mate in his campaign for the presidency. “I would be an excellent running mate,” Abrams said in an interview with Elle. “I have the capacity to attract voters by motivating…
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With Promises Made Of A Woman VP Nominee, Who Do Voters Want Picked To Run?
Healthcare reform, coronavirus, and who could beat President Donald Trump in a general election matchup were all obvious topics that viewers should have expected to be discussed in the debate between Democratic Party candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders on Sunday night. But a promise from Biden also made headlines — the pledge that a…
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McCaskill Begs Abrams to Run for the Senate and ‘Take Down McConnell’
During a TV appearance when the discussion was all about whether or not Stacey Abrams would run for president in 2020, a former U.S. senator practically begged her to run for a Senate seat in Georgia instead. The former senator, Claire McCaskill of Missouri, made a strong pitch directly to Abrams, saying that if she…
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Stacey Abrams Has Built a “Massive Political Network”
Stacey Abrams of Georgia is now a national powerhouse in Democratic Party politics, but few people know about it. After narrowly losing the governor’s race in the Peach State in November Abrams has quietly built a “massive political network” that will make her an instant force once she decides what her next move will be. She…
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Biden Debates Explosive Launch Naming Stacey Abrams as His Running Mate
New reporting this morning has revealed that former vice president Joe Biden may soon announce he is running for president, and at the same time might announce that Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams will be his running mate if he wins the Democratic Party nomination next year. The report came from Axios and is based on…
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A Defiant Stacey Abrams Says ‘I’m Going to Run Again’
Democrat Stacey Abrams , who lost a heated and controversial Georgia governor’s race against Republican Brian Kemp, has announced that she will definitely run for public office again. “Yes, I’m going to run again,” she told an enthusiastic crowd at Fortune’s “Most Powerful Women Next Gen Summit” in Laguna Niguel, Calif. “What it is I’m…
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Cummings Wants Brian Kemp To Testify About Voter Suppression
The incoming chairman of the powerful House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Rep. Elijah Cummings , has his sights set on Brian Kemp, the Republican governor-elect of Georgia. Before using widespread voter suppression tactics to cheat in his race against Democrat Stacey Abrams, Kemp was the Georgia Secretary of State. This position put him in…
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Stacey Abrams Sues Georgia Election Officials to Fix Broken System
A new political action committee (PAC) backed by Georgia’s 2018 Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit against Georgia election officials. The suit is requesting that a judge order that extensive problems in the state’s election system be fixed. The PAC, Fair Fight Action, accuses Georgia election officials of grossly mismanaging…
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Abrams Files New Lawsuit in Georgia; Hopes to Force Runoff
Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has filed a new lawsuit as she continues to try to force a runoff in the too-close-to-call election which has made national news. In the lawsuit, filed Sunday, Abrams is trying to stop two counties from rejecting absentee ballots and provisional with minor mistakes, according to The Washington Post….
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Georgia’s Tight Governor Race Points Out Kemp’s Voter Suppression
Republican Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp is demanding that his opponent, Democrat Stacey Abrams , concede in a race where all of the votes have not yet been counted. Prominent civil rights groups, as well as Democrats all over the country, are urging her to stay in the fight. Bernie Sanders tweeted his thoughts about…
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Racist Robocalls Are Targeting Oprah and Stacey Abrams in Georgia
Georgia Republican governor candidate Brian Kemp really didn’t need any outside help to make him appear racist. He was doing that very well all by himself. However over the weekend Kemp got some help anyway, as a white supremacist group that targeted Florida gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum with racist robocalls began targeting Kemp’s opponent, Georgia…
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Oprah Winfrey Storms Georgia And Takes On GOP Voter Suppression
Oprah Winfey didn’t just campaign for Democrat Stacey Abrams. She took on voter suppression in Georgia. Winfrey said: The reality is that we see the injustices big and small all around us every single day of our lives, and I know it is easy for a lot of people to feel that you have no…
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Oprah jumps into contentious Georgia race, endorses Democrat Abrams
Oprah Winfrey plans to lend her star power to Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams’ quest to become the United States’ first black woman governor at a couple of appearances in the state on Thursday.
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Oprah Is Going to Georgia To Campaign For Stacey Abrams
Oprah Winfrey is going to Georgia this week to campaign for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams according to BuzzFeed News. Winfrey will reportedly make two public appearances with the popular Abrams, who is in the middle of a very close race for governor. Reports say they are planning two town hall meetings which will allow…
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Georgia NAACP Files Complaint Alleging Stacey Abrams Votes Being Counted For Brian Kemp
The Georgia NAACP has filed a complaint against Sec. of State Brian Kemp alleging that votes for Democrat Stacey Abrams are being counted for Kemp in the governor’s race.
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Stacey Abrams Is Tied With Brian Kemp As Democrats Rise In Georgia
A new poll shows that Democratic candidate for governor Stacey Abrams is tied with Republican Brian Kemp in Georgia.
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Stacey Abrams Crushes Brian Kemp In Georgia Governor Debate
Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams was ready for all of Republican Brian Kemp’s attacks, and she showed why Republicans are so afraid that she will win in November.
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Stacey Abrams Burned a White Supremacist Flag And Conservatives Are Losing Their Minds
Conservatives are apparently outraged that Stacey Abrams burned “the old *Georgia* flag, which had been designed specifically by white supremacists as a show of defiance to desegregation in 1956.” That is to say, the Confederate “battle flag,” the “banner for Dixiecrats and white supremacists.”
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Georgia GOP Election Rigging Gets Worse as 107,000 Voters Purged
Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp purged 107,000 voters in a single day in 2017 under the state’s use it or lose it law.
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Republicans in Georgia Have Created a Blue Monster
Voter suppression has been a flash point in the Georgia governor’s race , where Democrat Stacey Abrams would become the first African American woman governor of any state if she beats Republican secretary of state Brian Kemp. Unfortunately Kemp has used his position as secretary of state to try to stop tens of thousands of…
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ACLU Sues Georgia Over Effort To Rig The Vote
The ACLU has announced that they are suing the state of Georgia over their signature match law that is the heart of the GOP rig the vote effort.
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Georgia GOP Senator David Perdue Steals Phone From a Student
Georgia Senator David Perdue has created a new controversy in Georgia politics after he attempted to avoid a college student’s question by ripping the student’s cellphone out of his hand in the midst of a video recording. The incident was reported in The Huffington Post where an amateur cellphone video of the incident was also…
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Stacey Abrams Demands Georgia Secretary Of State Brian Kemp Resign After Voter Purge
The campaign of Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is demanding that her opponent Georgia Sec. of State Brian Kemp resigned after he carried out a purge that blocked 53,000 voters from the state’s rolls.
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Gillum Made History and Now is Fighting With Trump on Twitter
In a shocking political upset yesterday in the Florida primary, a young African American mayor named Andrew Gillum beat a crowded field of wealthy establishment figures to win the Democratic nomination for governor of the Sunshine State. His opponent will be Congressman Ron DeSantis who won the GOP primary after advertising his closeness to Donald…
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Stacey Abrams, Others Say That Georgia is Now A Blue State
There is a lot of euphoria among Democrats about Stacey Abrams possibly becoming the nation’s first black female elected governor. There is also the inescapable fact that Georgia has not elected a Democrat as governor for 16 years. So can Georgia make history on election day and put Abrams into the Georgia governor’s mansion? She…