{"id":1490156,"date":"2022-05-24T14:30:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T18:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490156"},"modified":"2022-05-24T14:30:56","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T18:30:56","slug":"stacey-abrams-doubles-down-on-her-worst-state-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-doubles-down-on-her-worst-state-remark\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams Doubles Down On Her \u2018Worst State\u2019 Remark"},"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\">18<\/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-doubles-down-on-her-worst-state-remark%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=1490156&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<p>Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams doubled down Tuesday on calling Georgia \u201cthe worst state in the country to live.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abrams came under fire after <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/23\/worst-state-stacey-abrams-georgia-opinion\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">telling<\/a> an audience Saturday at the Gwinnett Democrats\u2019 Bluetopia Gala that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gwinnettdailypost.com\/stacey-abrams-remarks-at-gwinnett-democats-bluetopia-gala\/audio_1356db08-d98b-11ec-837c-1f9da3657c0d.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">she is<\/a> \u201ctired of hearing about how we\u2019re the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live.\u201d The gubernatorial candidate doubled down during a press conference Tuesday, pinning Republicans for allegedly not taking any action on the issues facing Georgia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI listened to Republicans for the last six months attack me, but they\u2019ve done nothing to attack the challenges facing Georgia,\u201d she said. \u201cThey\u2019ve done nothing to articulate their plans for the future of Georgia. Their response to a comment on their record is to deflect and to pretend that they have done good for the people of Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abrams said the state is number one in maternal mortality and placed second in the nation regarding the number of uninsured citizens. The state is also sixth in infant mortality, in ninth place for gun violence and near the bottom in providing mental health services, Abrams said. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/05\/04\/raphael-warnock-stacey-abrams-herschel-walker-brian-kemp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Here\u2019s Why Stacey Abrams Could Lose In Georgia Even If Raphael Warnock Wins)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe challenge I have is the answer from Republicans, from our former senator to our current governor, is to fight me instead of fighting the problems that are facing Georgia,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She also told a reporter that she made an \u201cinelegant delivery\u201d of condemning Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp as a \u201cfailed governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had an inelegant delivery of a statement that I will keep making, and that is that Brian Kemp is a failed governor who doesn\u2019t care about the people of Georgia,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Abrams owns at least two homes in Georgia despite her negative remarks about the state, Fox News <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/stacey-abrams-georgia-worst-state-despite-owning-multiple-houses-there\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp, who <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/11\/18\/brian-kemp-officially-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">defeated<\/a> Abrams in the last election, hit back at her remarks, calling his state the \u201cbest\u201d to \u201clive, work, and raise a family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStacey Abrams may think differently, but I believe Georgia is the best state to live, work and raise a family. And Marty, the girls, and I will work hard every day from now until November to keep it that way for four more years!\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrianKempGA\/status\/1528203451846492160\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> via Twitter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams doubled down Tuesday on calling Georgia \u201cthe worst state in the country to live.\u201dAbrams came under fire after telling an audience Saturday at the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1490176,"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-1490156","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\/1490156","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\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}