Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams maintains she will not concede the recent election because it would mean she was admitting the process was fair.
Abrams, who recently announced she is not running for president in 2020 to instead focus on voting rights advocacy, told CBS News on Monday, “Concession means to say that the process was fair.”
“But when I run an organization, that in 10 days, between election night and the night I refused to concede, we received more than 50,000 phone calls of people who were denied the right to vote. I am complicit if I say that system is fair,” she continued.
Abrams added she is not claiming to be the governor of Georgia, but, “I have said is we won the battle of making sure more voices were heard because we had the highest record turnout in Georgia history for Democrats.”
As evidence of voter suppression, Abrams offered the fact that current Gov. Brian Kemp, who was Georgia’s secretary of state during the election, “was in charge of the process.”
When Abrams was speaking at the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades convention last week, she called Kemp the “architect of voter suppression” that “we won” because of the record voter turnout.
Kemp received 50.2% of the vote during the 2018 midterms, with Abrams receiving 48.8% of the vote, according to the New York Times.
