{"id":1359293,"date":"2022-03-04T18:52:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T23:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1359293"},"modified":"2022-03-04T18:52:50","modified_gmt":"2022-03-04T23:52:50","slug":"stacey-abrams-comes-mighty-close-to-making-invasion-of-ukraine-about-voter-id","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-comes-mighty-close-to-making-invasion-of-ukraine-about-voter-id\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams Comes Mighty Close To Making Invasion Of Ukraine About Voter ID"},"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\">26<\/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-comes-mighty-close-to-making-invasion-of-ukraine-about-voter-id%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=1359293&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Screen-Shot-2022-03-04-at-6.36.30-PM-e1646437067485.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Failed Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams appeared to come close to comparing the war in Ukraine to voter ID while speaking Wednesday on Comedy Central.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy focus should never be on who you cast your ballot for,\u201d Abrams said. \u201cVoting itself, the process is nonpartisan.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a stronger nation when we allow people to participate, and if we ever doubted that, the war that Putin is waging against Ukraine. President Zelenskyy said it and I will paraphrase poorly, he said this isn\u2019t a war on Ukraine, it\u2019s a war on Democracy in Ukraine,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/17\/stacey-abrams-supports-manchins-voting-rights-compromise-id-requirements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abrams<\/a> said. \u201cWhen we allow democracy to be overtaken by those who want to choose who can be heard, and those choices are not based on anything but \u2026 inconvenience, then that is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Stacey Abrams is so self-absorbed that she just compared her push to undermine fair elections with Ukraine\u2019s invasion by a murderous dictator. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/caV7N4J9IK\">pic.twitter.com\/caV7N4J9IK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kelly Loeffler (@KLoeffler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KLoeffler\/status\/1499417531995627525?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/01\/stacey-abrams-please-dont-boycott-georgia-joe-biden-mlb-pga-coca-cola\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abrams<\/a> comment sparked immediate backlash, with Republican strategist Matt Whitlock calling her comparison \u201cdeeply offensive and quite stupid.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/17\/stacey-abrams-nobody-opposed-prove-vote\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Stacey Abrams Says Nobody Has Ever Opposed \u2018Having To Prove Who You Are To Vote\u2019)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Stacey Abrams comparing her crusade against popular voting provisions like voter ID to Ukrainians fighting for their lives is deeply offensive and quite stupid. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/AhUSdIjLho\">https:\/\/t.co\/AhUSdIjLho<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Whitlock (@mattdizwhitlock) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mattdizwhitlock\/status\/1499411437403488257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republican national press secretary Will O\u2019Grady said it was \u201cfitting that this utterly ridiculous take by Stacey Abrams was aired on Comedy Central.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Fitting that this utterly ridiculous take by Stacey Abrams was aired on Comedy Central. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/a3bhtcU70Z\">https:\/\/t.co\/a3bhtcU70Z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Will O\u2019Grady (@WillOGrady61) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WillOGrady61\/status\/1499414871808610308?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 3, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, whom Abrams lost to in 2018, said it was a \u201cdisgusting comparison,\u201d according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10574443\/Gov-Brian-Kemp-calls-Stacey-Abrams-disgusting-comparing-voting-rights-push-Ukraine.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Zelenskyy and the Ukrainian people are fighting for their freedom against a callous invasion that has killed innocent civilians,\u201d campaign press secretary Tate Mitchell reportedly said. \u201cStacey Abrams is a political opportunist who has lined her pockets on lies about common-sense election integrity measures like voter ID. The two are not the same.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failed Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams appeared to come close to comparing the war in Ukraine to voter ID while speaking Wednesday on Comedy Central.\u201cMy focus should never be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1359293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1359293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1359293\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1359293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1359293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1359293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}