Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) slammed his Democratic opponent Stacey Abrams for pushing the “false narrative” that “her defeat was the result of voter suppression” after her organization lost a lengthy legal battle after alleging voter suppression over the 2018 election.
Kemp, who defeated Abrams in the Georgia gubernatorial election in 2018, pushed back against Abrams’s “fiction” of voter suppression in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal.
“Stacey Abrams lost her bid to become Georgia’s governor in 2018. Almost overnight she devoted herself to peddling the fiction that her defeat was the result of voter suppression. She peddled it in talk-show appearances, interviews and magazine articles and on glitzy book tours. Ms. Abrams created a false narrative that much of her target audience was willing to accept and echo over the past four years,” Kemp said.
JUDGE RULES AGAINST STACEY ABRAMS IN VOTING RIGHTS LAWSUIT
U.S. District Court Judge Steve Jones, who was appointed by President Barack Obama, ruled last week that the state’s voting policies are constitutional and that “although Georgia’s election system is not perfect, the challenged practices violate neither the constitution nor the [Voting Rights Act].”
Kemp argued that “Abrams’s politically motivated claims about me and the state of Georgia” was sent “crashing down” after the verdict by Jones. He slammed her lawsuit for allegedly costing the state $6 million during the nearly four-year legal battle.
The governor also criticized other Democrats, including President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, for bashing Georgia’s election laws as “Jim Crow 2.0.”
Kemp argues that despite the verdict by the federal judge, Abrams’s “celebrity status on the left will only grow,” but “Georgians can take heart that the rule of law has prevailed again.”
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While former President Donald Trump has been decried by Democrats as an election denier for refusing to concede the 2020 election, Republicans have pushed back by pointing to Abrams’s denial of the 2018 gubernatorial election results. Abrams recently said she “never denied the outcome” of the 2018 election despite her refusal to concede the election.
RealClearPolitics has rated the Georgia gubernatorial race as “leans GOP,” with Kemp leading Abrams in the RCP polling average by 7 percentage points.
