Stacey Abrams desperately tries to whitewash election rhetoric

During a segment with CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins, Stacey Abrams did her best to rewrite her own history of election denial.

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Collins asked Abrams if he “regrets” some of the language he used after his election loss, something Republican critics were quick to point out as Democrats made election denial a key aspect of their criticism to former President Donald Trump.

“I wonder if you regret the language you're using, questioning the outcome of this election in light of what we're seeing now and how Republicans are using it to bolster their defense of Trump's claims of a stolen election asked the anchor. .

“Go back to elementary school and use understanding as a foundation,” Abrams replied. “I recognize that Brian Kemp won this election. What I questioned was the process that was used, and the courts agreed with us time and time again in overtime after Election Day and again after , so much so that he signed a law to fix some of the problems that we were able to reveal.. I never said that the process was flawed, and that's why we had the Bill of Rights vote in America. That's why we have the Help America Vote Act. We know that sometimes we don't get it right, and we need to point out mistakes to improve.”

However, Collins cited Abrams' post-loss interview with the News from New Yorkpointing out specifically where he said “I won”.

“Well, I do remember the moment you told the New York Times 'I won.' You described it as a stolen election. The courts sided with Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, and so…” Collins said before being cut off.

“Kaitlin, this is really wrong,” Abrams said. “And normally I wouldn't cut you off, but you're repeating misinformation. What the court said, if you read the entire opinion, is that despite the flaws in the process, which we recognize, which the courts recognize, they were no longer allowed complete and fix them. They couldn't fix the mistakes because the law had changed between 2018 and 2022. There was never a time when they said what happened was right. What they said was that there was no ability to correct the mistakes. And so it's important that we not only use the headlines, but we read the fine print because that's where the mistakes are made. That's where the challenges are “.

“I believed then, and I believe now … I have never been the governor of Georgia,” he continued. “I have never claimed to be the governor of Georgia. What I have said is that the voters were denied all their rights. The courts agreed with me at the time of that election. They agreed with me afterwards of the elections. The state made changes to some of them, unfortunately, they have been restored in different ways. And we continue to face voter suppression not only in Georgia but in the entire country because Republicans are using the ability to change the laws, because we no longer have the protection of the Voting Rights Act, to make it harder for average voters to show up at the polls and have their votes counted. That should be the that should be our focus.”

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