Stacey Abrams is still an election denier

Stacey Abrams, in the gubernatorial debate Monday night, signaled that once again she will not concede if she loses.

“In 2018, you didn’t concede defeat to Gov. Kemp,” the moderator began, “and you talked of systemic problems with the state’s election system. This election, do you commit to accept the outcome of the vote, regardless of what it shows, and do you stand by your use of words like ‘rigged’ four years ago to describe the state’s election system?”

The Georgia Democrat began her answer Monday saying that “in 2018 I began my speech on Nov. 16 acknowledging that Gov. Kemp had won the election.”

That’s false. Watch her speech here. Abrams “began” her 12-minute speech in 2018 with more than four minutes of complaining about how “democracy failed Georgia” and gripes about “misinformation.”

After four-plus minutes of objections, Abrams said, “I acknowledge that former Secretary of State Brian Kemp will be certified as the victor in the 2018 gubernatorial election.” That’s not an admission that he won — and she underscored that when she added, “Let’s be clear, this is not a speech of concession. … My assessment is the law currently allows no further viable remedy.”

So no, that does not count as “acknowledging that Gov. Kemp had won.” Abrams has spent the last four years saying the election was stolen and she didn’t lose.

She denied the result then, and she will deny it again. We know this because, in her answer Monday night, she started laying the groundwork for denying the outcome this time, too, on the grounds of voter suppression. Then she said, “I will always acknowledge the outcome of elections.”

So Abrams is not promising to concede this time if she loses. She’s not promising to accept the outcome, as the moderator asked. She’s clearly saying that if she loses, she will “acknowledge,” as she did four years ago, that the state declared Kemp the winner — something any election denier can admit.

What happened after she acknowledged that Kemp would be certified the winner in 2018? She repeatedly refused to shoot down her party’s claims the election “was stolen.” She said the election she lost was “not a free and fair election.” When one speaker introduced her and said she lost the election, Abrams corrected her, saying, “But we didn’t lose. We just didn’t get the governor’s mansion.”

Losers who say, “we didn’t lose,” who refuse to correct the statement that “the election was stolen,” are election deniers. Like Stacey Abrams.

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