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2. I missed where Abrams attempted to extort the governor or the state legislators
Tue Dec 8, 2020, 04:21 PM
Dec 2020

She also ended her fight on Nov. 16th.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/16/us/elections/georgia-governor-race-kemp-abrams.html

But the issue that seemed to electrify voters most in the final weeks was voting access, a particularly sensitive matter because Mr. Kemp was still overseeing elections.

Two days before the election, Mr. Kemp’s office announced, citing scant evidence, that it was opening an inquiry into the state Democratic Party after what the office called “a failed attempt to hack the state’s voter registration system.” Democrats denied any wrongdoing and called the announcement a political stunt.

But Mr. Kemp’s record still gave Ms. Abrams’s campaign a rallying cry even after the polls closed: “Count every vote,” her campaign manager repeatedly told the television cameras, asserting that it was not yet time for Ms. Abrams to concede.

On Friday evening in Atlanta, Ms. Abrams held true to that.

“I don’t want to hold public office if I have to scheme my way into the post because the title of governor isn’t nearly as important as our shared title — voters,” she said. “And that is why we fight on.”


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