When I started running for governor, we anticipated voter suppression was going to be instrumental in Brian Kemp's campaign, and we were right.
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Abrams discusses her awareness of voter suppression tactics during her gubernatorial campaign against Brian Kemp.
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Where we stood in Georgia prior to Brian Kemp was a 20-week ban, that I also found deeply objectionable. But what Brian Kemp has done is go so far afield that 72% of women — 72% of Georgians disagree with what we have right now, which is almost a total ban.
There's no such thing as a heartbeat at six weeks. It is a manufactured sound designed to convince people that men have the right to take control of a woman's body away from her.
We demonstrated that there are voices that have long been ignored that can have volume and have effect.
We are excited about the turnout. Let's be clear about that. However, we need to caveat that by recognizing that one of the reasons we are seeing so many people in-person standing in lines this early is because Republicans constrained access to vote by mail.





