With her primary victory behind her, Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has hit the ground running.
Her committee, One Georgia, wasted no time this week launching the first ad of the general election campaign, hitting incumbent GOP Gov. Brian Kemp on gun control and abortion, two very thorny and divisive topics in the southern state.
The 30-second ad slams Kemp for supporting “criminal carry” gun legislation in the wake of the Robb Elementary School massacre in Uvalde, Texas, last week. A lone gunman entered the Texas school and killed 19 students and two adults before being shot dead by a law enforcement agent. The horrific scene once again catapulted the topic of gun control into the national spotlight. In Abrams’s ad, she specifically targets legislation the GOP-controlled General Assembly passed in 2022 that allows Georgians to carry firearms without a permit.
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Brian Kemp keeps taking us back… on guns, on abortion, and even a massive tax giveaway… for himself.
Georgians deserve a governor who will move us forward – not a guy stuck?in?the?past. #gapol
Check out our debut TV ad: pic.twitter.com/Nu81YCQe0E
— One Georgia (@OneGeorgiaInc) June 1, 2022
“[Kemp] made it easier for criminals to carry guns in public,” the narrator says.
The half-minute piece is the first television ad this cycle from Abrams’s team and also takes aim at the sitting governor’s anti-abortion stance. Georgia lawmakers passed the “heartbeat bill” in 2019, Kemp’s first year in office. The bill prohibits abortion after a fetal heartbeat is detected, around six weeks into the pregnancy, when some women don’t even know they are pregnant.
The rematch between Abrams and Kemp is one of the most widely watched gubernatorial races in the country, with millions of dollars expected to land in each candidate’s coffer.
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Abrams narrowly lost to Kemp four years ago. She has sought the rematch and even turned down some pleas to run for the Senate in 2020.
