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Stacey Abrams: “I would argue that is the moral equivalent of saying that because more people get in the water, there can't be sharks.”

On the recordJune 24, 2019
I would argue that is the moral equivalent of saying that because more people get in the water, there can't be sharks.
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Stacey Abrams
Democratic · Georgia

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Abrams compares high voter turnout to the presence of voter suppression.

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