Twice-failed Georgia Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is in the news again thanks in part to her appearance during an Atlanta rally for presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris in the Peach State on Tuesday.
The theme of the rally was that Georgia had in their view “saved” America from Trump in 2020 and that they needed to do it with Kamala Harris in 2024.
“We will not go back,” Abrams vowed at the same event that also featured Harris bizarrely using a southern accent, as well as twerking from rapper Megan Thee Stallion.
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But “going back” is exactly what happened during an interview Abrams did with CNN after her appearance at the Harris campaign event.
While the crux of her back and forth with anchor Kaitlan Collins was about why Harris was allegedly the best choice for president and how in Abrams’ opinion Georgia was in play, towards the end of the segment Collins brought up 2024 GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020. She used the claims to circle back to Abrams’ oft-repeated baseless allegations about how the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial election was stolen by Brian Kemp, who at the time was Georgia’s Sec. of State.
What followed was an awkward back and forth where Abrams gave a long-winded explanation for why she’s maintained for six years now that the election was flawed and rigged. At one point, she even accused Collins of repeating “disinformation” about a court case on the issue. It was Collins who got the last laugh, though, as you’ll soon see by the clip and partial transcript that follows (bolded emphasis added by me):
ABRAMS: I acknowledged that Brian Kemp won that election. What I called into question was the process that was used. And courts agreed with us. Again, and again, during the overtime after Election Day, and again afterwards, so much so that he actually signed legislation, to fix some of the problems that we — that we were able to reveal.
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COLLINS: Well, I do remember the time you told The New York Times, I won. You did describe it as a stolen election. The courts did side with the Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger–
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ABRAMS: Kaitlan, that’s actually incorrect. And normally, I wouldn’t cut you off. But you’re repeating disinformation.
What the court said, if you read the entire opinion, was that despite the flaws in the process, that we acknowledged, that the courts acknowledged, they were no longer permitted to complete and fix them. They could not correct the mistakes, because the law had changed between 2018 and 2022, when the case was finally adjudicated.
There was never a moment, where they said what happened was right. What they said was there was no capacity to correct the mistakes.
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COLLINS: And I take your point that obviously you did not agree with the laws that were in place. You didn’t like the new ones that Governor Kemp signed.
But — and we do read past the headlines and the fine print. And in one of them, the court said that although Georgia’s election system is not perfect, the challenged practices violate neither the Constitution nor the Voting Rights Act.
Abrams looked momentarily stunned, probably because she’s not used to members of the media who typically fawn over her every move and word correcting her. It was glorious, rare, and definitely worth watching:
Relatedly, I’m not so sure trotting out Stacey Abrams in front of Georgia voters to tout Kamala Harris’ mythical “accomplishments” is going to help the veep much considering the state has twice rejected Abrams.
But it’d be cool if the Harris campaign continued to do so if for no other reason than to see Abrams and her defenders keep contorting themselves into pretzels to explain why it’s okay to proclaim that her election was stolen but that it’s not okay for Trump allege wrongdoing in his.
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