{"id":1489870,"date":"2022-05-24T12:45:49","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1489870"},"modified":"2022-05-24T12:45:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T16:45:55","slug":"stacey-abrams-twists-herself-into-knots-trying-to-explain-away-surging-voter-turnout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-twists-herself-into-knots-trying-to-explain-away-surging-voter-turnout\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams Twists Herself Into Knots Trying To Explain Away Surging Voter Turnout"},"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-twists-herself-into-knots-trying-to-explain-away-surging-voter-turnout%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=1489870&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><\/div>\n<aside id=\"right1forarticles\">\n<\/aside>\n<div id=\"ob-read-more-selector\">\n<p>Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said that there was no causation between voter suppression and turnout when addressing Georgia\u2019s record voting numbers during a press conference Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/23\/worst-state-stacey-abrams-georgia-opinion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Abrams<\/a> suggested that there is not a causal relationship between turnout and suppression before stating that turnout is actually the \u201cantidote\u201d to suppression in response to a reporter\u2019s question on Georgia\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/23\/georgia-record-voter-turnout-new-voting-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">record voter turnout<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><br \/>[embedded content]\n<p>\u201cThe question about voter suppression and voter turnout is causation without correlation,\u201d Abrams initially said before correcting herself. \u201cSorry, see, you can make mistakes even when you know what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s correlation without causation,\u201d Abrams continued. \u201cWe know that increased turnout has nothing to do with suppression. Suppression is about whether or not you make it difficult for voters to access the ballot. And in Georgia, we know difficulty has been put in place for too many Georgians who vote by mail, who had to figure out a calendar of applying just early enough but not too late. You had to have wet signatures so they could print things out. Take a picture, upload it.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/07\/stacey-abrams-campaign-maskless-photo-school-mandate\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Stacey Abrams Campaign Scrambles To Do Damage Control Following Maskless Image With Children)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abrams went on to accuse counties in Georgia of \u201ctaking advantage of their election boards\u201d to shift their dynamic to suppress votes. However, Abrams acknowledged that voters were showing up despite the alleged acts of suppression and that voter turnout was the \u201cantidote\u201d to suppression.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams has <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/28\/stacey-abrams-cnn-jim-sciutto-republicans-voter-suppression-georgia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stated<\/a> that Republicans cannot win elections \u201cwithout voter suppression.\u201d The gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/11\/20\/brian-kemp-stacey-abrams-voter-suppression\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blamed<\/a> her 2018 loss to Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp on widespread voter suppression.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams\u2019 Campaign did not immediately respond to The Daily Caller News Foundation\u2019s request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said that there was no causation between voter suppression and turnout when addressing Georgia\u2019s record voting numbers during a press conference Tuesday.Abrams<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":357,"featured_media":1489880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1489870","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\/1489870","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\/357"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1489870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1489870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1489880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1489870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1489870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1489870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}