With voting laws and former President Donald Trump’s election conspiracy theories back in the news, it is once again time to raise the question: Why are people still taking Stacey Abrams seriously?

Abrams is every bit the conspiracy theorist as Trump, lacking only the equivalent of the Jan. 6 riot to cap off the refusal to live in reality. Abrams lost by more than 54,000 votes in the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race, a margin wide enough to avoid an automatic recount in an election that saw record turnout, yet she still blamed “voter suppression” for denying her the victory. Her opponent, Brian Kemp, was Georgia’s secretary of state at the time, and Abrams maintained that purging voter rolls and precinct closures (that were outside Kemp’s control) were proof of a stolen election. Yet, she never offered any proof to back up her claims.