{"id":1073857,"date":"2021-12-01T17:59:28","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T22:59:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073857"},"modified":"2021-12-01T17:59:32","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T22:59:32","slug":"stacey-abrams-im-running-for-governor-crenshaw-fires-i-thought-you-said-you-were-already-the-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-im-running-for-governor-crenshaw-fires-i-thought-you-said-you-were-already-the-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams: I\u2019m Running For Governor. Crenshaw Fires, \u2018I Thought You Said You Were Already The Governor\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">34<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstacey-abrams-im-running-for-governor-crenshaw-fires-i-thought-you-said-you-were-already-the-governor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073857&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Wednesday, Democrat Stacey Abrams, who has insisted for years that she actually won the 2018 gubernatorial race against the GOP\u2019s Brian Kemp, &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-stacey-abrams-announces-she-is-running-for-georgia-governor-in-2022\/\">officially announced her candidacy<\/a> in the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial race, stating in a campaign video she is running because \u201copportunity in our state shouldn\u2019t be determined by zip code, background or access to power.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Dan Crenshaw fired back on Twitter, \u201cWait I thought you said you were already the Governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wait I thought you said you were already the Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G5AEb3hRUU\">https:\/\/t.co\/G5AEb3hRUU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DanCrenshawTX\/status\/1466163333548187656?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As The Daily Wire&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/watch-stacey-abrams-still-promoting-unfounded-molly-prince\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;in 2019, Abrams told MSNBC, \u201cI think the election was stolen from the people of Georgia. \u2026 I don\u2019t know that empirically, I would have won. But if you add together the thousands of people who faced extraordinary 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In late December 2020, appearing on CNN\u2019s \u201cNew Day,\u201d Abrams <a href=\"https:\/\/dailywire.com\/news\/stacey-abrams-gop-doesnt-know-how-to-win-without-voter-suppression\/\">stated<\/a>, \u201cRepublicans do not know how to win without voter suppression as one of their tools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CNN anchor Jim Sciutto prompted Abrams\u2019 remark by saying, \u201cI want to ask you a big picture question here because, you know, the president still denies the outcome of this election and Republicans around the country drawing on that to already begin writing up voting restrictions, right, to bring back some of the voter expansion measures we saw in this cycle, including mail-in ballots, et cetera.&nbsp;Do you see that effort ticking up again after this cycle in state legislatures around the country where, frankly, Republicans have an enormous advantage? And, if so, what are you going to do about it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to do what we\u2019ve been doing, which is we are going to work to mitigate voter suppression,\u201d Abrams claimed. \u201cYou are absolutely right that when voter suppression was put on its heels in the 2020 election, through the work of Fair Fight 2020 and other organizations around the country, we saw voters turn out in record numbers and in record composition in Michigan, in Wisconsin, in Pennsylvania, in Arizona, here in Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stacey-abrams-i-come-from-a-state-where-i-was-not-entitled-to-become-the-governor\">reported<\/a>&nbsp;in October that while she was campaigning for Democrat Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, who wound up losing to the GOP\u2019s Glenn Youngkin, Abrams complained, \u201cJust because you win doesn\u2019t mean you won. We\u2019ve got folks who are ready to take back what they think is theirs, but they are not entitled to our progress. They are not entitled to our justice. They are not entitled to our vote. \u2026 I come from a state where I was not entitled to become the governor, but as an American citizen and a citizen of Georgia, I\u2019m going to fight for every person who has the right to vote to be able to cast that vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, Democrat Stacey Abrams, who has insisted for years that she actually won the 2018 gubernatorial race against the GOP\u2019s Brian Kemp, \u00a0officially announced her candidacy in the 2022 Georgia gubernatorial race, stating in a campaign video she is running because \u201copportunity in our state shouldn\u2019t be determined by zip code, background or access to power.\u201dRep. Dan Crenshaw fired back on Twitter, \u201cWait I thought you said you were already the Governor.\u201dWait I thought you said you were already the Governor https:\/\/t.co\/G5AEb3hRUU\u2014 Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) December 1, 2021As The Daily Wire\u00a0reported\u00a0in 2019, Abrams told MSNBC, \u201cI think the election was stolen from the people of Georgia. \u2026 I don\u2019t know that empirically, I would have won. But if you add together the thousands of people who faced extraordinary 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.\u201dIn late December 2020, appearing on CNN\u2019s \u201cNew Day,\u201d Abrams stated, \u201cRepublicans do not know how to win without voter suppression as one of their tools.\u201dCNN anchor Jim Sciutto prompted Abrams\u2019 remark by saying, \u201cI want to ask you a big picture question here because, you know, the president still denies the outcome of this election and Republicans around the country drawing on that to already begin writing up voting restrictions, right, to bring back some of the voter expansion measures we saw in this cycle, including mail-in ballots, et cetera.\u00a0Do you see that effort ticking up again after this cycle in state legislatures around the country where, frankly, Republicans have an enormous advantage? And, if so, what are you going to do about it?\u201d\u201cWe\u2019re going to do what we\u2019ve been doing, which is we are going to work to mitigate voter suppression,\u201d Abrams claimed. \u201cYou are absolutely right that when voter suppression was put on its heels in the 2020 election, through the work of Fair Fight 2020 and other organizations around the country, we saw voters turn out in record numbers and in record composition in Michigan, in Wisconsin, in Pennsylvania, in Arizona, here in Georgia.\u201dThe Daily Wire\u00a0reported\u00a0in October that while she was campaigning for Democrat Virginia gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe, who wound up losing to the GOP\u2019s Glenn Youngkin, Abrams complained, \u201cJust because you win doesn\u2019t mean you won. We\u2019ve got folks who are ready to take back what they think is theirs, but they are not entitled to our progress. They are not entitled to our justice. They are not entitled to our vote. \u2026 I come from a state where I was not entitled to become the governor, but as an American citizen and a citizen of Georgia, I\u2019m going to fight for every person who has the right to vote to be able to cast that vote.\u201dThe Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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