Stacey Abrams, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Georgia, on Sunday shrugged off President Trump’s jabs at her credentials, touting “unprecedented” voter turnout two days before Election Day that she hopes will help her become the state’s first black woman governor.
“I find his assessments to be vapid and shallow,” Abrams said during an interview with NBC’s “Meet the Press.” “I am a business owner. I’m a tax attorney, who was trained at Yale Law School. I am a civic leader who helped register more than 200,000 Georgians. I am a very accomplished political leader who worked across the aisle to improve access to education, transportation, and I blocked the single largest tax increase in Georgia’s history.”
Trump recently said Abrams is “not qualified” to be governor.
Abrams said the election, which polls show is neck-and-neck, would be fair, despite her earlier attacks on her Republican opponent Brian Kemp, who also serves as Georgia’s secretary of state. She has accused Kemp of permitting voter suppression efforts.
“I do,” Abrams said when asked whether she thought the contest would be fair. “We have seen unprecedented turnout in this race from people who normally do not engage and do not vote. Some of that has been driven by the conversations of voter suppression because one of the best ways to encourage people to use something is to tell them that someone is trying to take it away. Luckily we’ve had two court decisions against Brian Kemp.”
Kemp’s office announced on Sunday that it had opened an investigation into what he called a Democratic-led attempt to hack into Georgia’s voter registration system. Press secretary Candice Broce did not provide specifics regarding the allegation. She said, however, that the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI had been advised of the probe and no “personal data” had been breached.
State-level Democrats, in response, criticized Kemp’s announcement as a “political stunt” and another example of his “abuse of power” in office.
