During a virtual campaign event with Oprah Winfrey on Thursday, Democrat Stacey Abrams took aim at her Republican opponent for governor and a U.S. Supreme Court justice when asked what's at stake in this year's election.
After a narrow 2018 gubernatorial loss to Kemp, Abrams told Winfrey she was seeking redemption this year so that “every voter in Georgia is heard.”
“If you believe in democracy, there’s the Moore decision,” Abrams said in reference to the Moore v. Harper case currently before the Supreme Court, “which is going to say that governors and legislators alone have the authority to determine Electoral College election laws, meaning that you don’t have to commit treason like Donald Trump tried to. All you have to do is have a governor who changes the law.
More than half a million Georgians have cast their ballots in the midterm elections through four days of early voting, according to, Georgia's top election official, crushing the previous four-day record for votes cast in a midterm election that was set in 2018 and keeping pace with the historic 2020 turnout in the presidential election.
The high early voting numbers could be a positive sign for Democrats, who historically fare better than Republicans with early voting turnout. Abrams’ efforts to increase voter turnout are widely credited with helping put President Biden and two Democratic senators over the top in 2020, turning Georgia from a red state to one with a more purple hue. But Abrams was clear-eyed Thursday about the direction the state will head if she once again fails to defeat Kemp.
“If we don’t elect me we won’t have healthcare for half a million Georgians, our children will continue to go to underfunded schools … divisive laws that say you have to lie to your children about their history, members of LGBTQ will not have protection, no access to affordable housing and he has already shown that he will attack our freedoms, especially if you’re a woman,” Abrams said.with Abrams, going door-to-door to encourage Georgians to get out and vote.
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