Stacey Abrams won't join presidential fray, will focus on voter suppression instead: reports

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By Louis Casiano | Fox News




Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams will not run for president, according to media reports, and will instead focus on combating voter suppression, an issue that took center stage during her unsuccessful run last year.

On Tuesday, Abrams announced her new initiative, called Fair Fight 2020, at the International Union of Painters and Allied Trades Convention in Las Vegas. The name is an offshoot of a group she started after her loss.

A close aide familiar with the decision told The New York Times that Abrams will focus on the new program rather than run for office. Messages from Fox News to Abrams were not immediately answered.

The group will work in 20 battleground states and invest $5 million to monitor voter protections ahead of the 2020 general election. It will work to correct inaccurate voter rolls, shortages of voting machines and provisional ballots and more.

"We’re going to win. We’re going to win because there are only two things stopping us in 2020: Making sure people have a reason to vote, and that they have the right to vote,” Abrams said.

As a Democrat, Abrams gained nationwide attention during her failed run against Republican Brian Kemp, losing by just two percentage points. Kemp, who was Georgia's secretary of state, was accused by Abrams and civil rights groups of closing polling locations in mostly African-American communities and putting around 50,000 voter applications on hold.

Abrams, a former leader in the Georgia House of Representatives, has repeatedly blamed voter suppression for her defeat.

She emerged from that experience as something of a political rockstar, with Democratic presidential contenders coveting her endorsement. She has been floated as a possible running mate to the eventual Democratic nominee.

She had entertained the possibility of a White House run in recent months while making appearances on television and at events where she faced questions over her political future.

At one point she shot down rumors that she’s considering joining former Vice President Joe Biden’s 2020 bid as his running mate.

“I do not believe you run for second place and I do not intend to enter a presidential race as a primary candidate for vice president,” she said.

On Tuesday, Abrams didn't indicate whether she would seek public office again, The Hill reported.

"My mission is to make certain that no one has to go through in 2020 what I had to go through in 2018,” she said.

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Cause she knows she wouldn't get elected President either.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

She's not the hero we need, but the one we deserve.

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No one deserves her bullshit.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

You don't like the fact that she's going to get to the bottom of all this republican voter suppression

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Suppression, my ass. I love how the Democrats always accuse Republicans of doing shit that Democrats are actually guilty of doing.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Suppression, my ass. I love how the Democrats always accuse Republicans of doing shit that Democrats are actually guilty of doing.

She's going to get to the bottom of it and finally be declared the true and legal governor of the racist state of Georgia

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Yeah, ok.

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Cameron Cawthorne - Washington Free Beacon




Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams on Tuesday claimed the Republican National Committee is going to send law enforcement officers into minority neighborhoods to scare them from voting.

Abrams appeared on MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, where she discussed her new multi-million dollar voter protection initiative. The initiative, which is called Fair Fight 2020, will be spread out across 20 battleground states during the 2020 cycle, and she said it was meant to stop Republicans from "dismantling democracy."

She went on to say her initiative is going to "educate, staff, and fund" voter protection teams to make sure they are ready to look for the same voter suppression tactics that she claims occurred in Georgia, North Dakota, Florida, Texas, and Wisconsin.

"We know that we also face foreign influence that is being denied by the White House, by the would-be tinpot dictator of Donald Trump, but also that Moscow Mitch is stopping voter rights legislation and election security legislation," Abrams said. "But we also know they just lifted a consent decree that's kept Republicans and the RNC from going into local communities and intimidating voters by having off-duty officers tell people that they are monitoring their votes."

"For the first time since 1981, the RNC will be allowed to cheat and lie and go into polling places and scare voters, particularly voters of color," Abrams said. "Fair Fight 2020 is designed to anticipate all those challenges, but not just worry about them, work against them and that's what we learned from 2018. We cannot wait for the cavalry to come. We have to be the army and we have to stand up now."

Abrams, who lost to Republican Brian Kemp last year by almost 55,000 votes in Georgia's gubernatorial election, has repeatedly claimed her loss was the result of voter suppression tactics. MSNBC's Katy Tur asked her on Sunday about her loss during an episode of American Swamp.

"Do you think the vote was stolen from you, the election was stolen from you?" Tur asked.

"I think the election was stolen from the people of Georgia," Abrams said. "I don't know that empirically I would have won, but if you add together the thousands of people who faced extraordinarily long lines, who faced hurdles that should not happen in a democracy, the votes that we know were not counted, the secretary of state, who was also my opponent in the race, purged more than 1.4 million voters over basically an eight-year period."

Abrams announced Tuesday she would not run for president in 2020. She has hinted at challenging Kemp when he runs for a second term in 2022.

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Where the hell does she get this shit?

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I think she is confusing the Black Panthers who harassed white voters when Obama was running

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I think she is confusing the Black Panthers who harassed white voters when Obama was running

I love how the Democrats always accuse Republicans of doing shit that Democrats are actually guilty of doing.

[Teh One Who Knocks]

Bunch of revisionist history going on up in here

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Stacey Abrams won't join presidential fray, will focus on voter fraud instead: reports