In national media and public speeches, Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger often accuses Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams of doing the same thing as former Republican President Donald Trump: making false claims of stolen elections.
The complaint is part of a Republican strategy to undercut Abrams’ image as a champion for voting rights, supporters say, an attack that will become part of the 2022 campaign for governor since she announced her candidacy this week.
Though both Abrams and Trump refused to concede after they lost, their similarities on election integrity stop there.
Trump tried to invalidate the presidential election, while Abrams acknowledged her defeat in the 2018 governor’s race. Trump lost lawsuits over election results; supporters of Abrams have won court rulings to verify and count additional absentee ballots.
While Abrams said 10 days after the election that she wasn’t conceding, she also said in the same speech that Republican Brian Kemp was the victor. Trump only admitted he had lost the day after a riot at the U.S. Capitol as the Electoral College confirmed his defeat.
“Concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true or proper. As a woman of conscience and faith, I cannot concede. But my assessment is that the law currently allows no further viable remedy,” Abrams said in a speech Nov. 16, 2018. “Now, I could certainly bring a new case to keep this one contest alive, but I don’t want to hold public office if I need to...
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