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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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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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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 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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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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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.â€

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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 African…

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