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Stacey Abrams is a prominent Democratic politician and activist from Georgia, known for her work in voting rights and social justice. She gained national recognition as the Minority Leader of the Georgia House of Representatives from 2011 to 2017, where she focused on issues such as education, healthcare, and economic development. Abrams is also the founder of Fair Fight Action, an organization aimed at combating voter suppression and advocating for fair elections. Her efforts in mobilizing voters in Georgia played a significant role in the 2020 presidential election and the subsequent Senate runoff elections in 2021.
In Georgia, mail-in voting has been primarily used by Republican voters for years, 2020 was first time Democrats won both early and mail-in voting. And to break that because too many Democrats voted, because too many black and brown people…
What is happening now is not just a regression to the mean. It is a regression to the meanest way possible to run elections.
Across the country, people who are afraid of losing elections are using their power to steal elections from the people and that should not stand.
We combat it first by making certain that Americans are aware of what's at stake.
We are at war, fighting to protect our democracy from domestic enemies at this moment.
Their intention is to disenfranchise those voters who have routinely demonstrated they do not share Republican ideology, or at least Republican orthodoxy.
They are not fighting to protect elections, they're fighting to preserve their ability to win. That's not what democracy is designed for.
They aren't defending the right of voters. They're defending a system that they created.
I've heard there's some conversation about calling going on. But there's only one call I care about. That's the call on January 6th calling Georgia for Warnock and Ossoff, Warnock and Ossoff. That's the call that matters.
We're also concerned about longer lines. That's why we have made certain that voters understand what their rights are.
I'm less concerned about a failed president who is on his way out and more about the two U.S. senators who have completely and totally kowtowed to the unfounded and just unconscionable lies that he's told about our elections.
I don't like winning by dispiriting and disenfranchising voters with disinformation.
I think that really what's going on is that Brad Raffensperger and Brian Kemp are afraid of Georgia voters because now they know that all Georgia voters who are eligible to vote will have the opportunity to be heard.
They are feckless hypocrites who would rather win an election than help the people of Georgia and do their jobs.
That failure is mostly the province of Brian Kemp and the Republicans in the state legislature.
We need Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue to come home permanently. And we need to send Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock to D.C. to do the work of the state of Georgia.
What they have done is actively agitated against support. They have tried to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, which, for millions of Georgians, is their only access to health insurance.
They are spineless and they are people who kowtow to Mitch McConnell, kowtow to Donald Trump, which means they will not serve the people of Georgia.
What we really needed was the certainty that the decision would hold. And today was that moment for so many Americans.
What is so important is that Georgia understands the outcome, that we delivered these votes, that we are part of a larger fabric of our nation, and that it takes every state and every person in the states to fight for what we call our…
We have now cast 16 electoral college votes on behalf of the state of Georgia for Joseph R. Biden as President of the United States and 16 electoral college votes on behalf of the State of Georgia for Kamala D. Harris as vice president of…
It's going to require not just introspection, but likely a realignment and they're not ready to do that.
That's not how democracy works and that's not how our nation works. And today was an affirmation that we can still do it right.
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