{"id":1491265,"date":"2022-05-25T08:29:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1491265"},"modified":"2022-05-25T08:29:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T12:29:53","slug":"stacey-abrams-on-record-voter-turnout-in-georgia-there-was-still-voter-suppression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-on-record-voter-turnout-in-georgia-there-was-still-voter-suppression\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams on Record Voter Turnout in Georgia: There Was Still Voter Suppression"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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-on-record-voter-turnout-in-georgia-there-was-still-voter-suppression%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=1491265&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=\"aside1\" class=\"left\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>In the world of Stacey Abrams, everything is rigged, and her endless lies, grievances and conspiracies are either unfalsifiable, or the falsification of them is simply ignored. \u00a0She&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2020\/11\/16\/yes-democrats-and-the-media-are-hypocrites-about-stacey-abrams-and-accepting-election-results-n2580123\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">become a big star<\/a> among Democrats and their colleagues in the news media <em>because<\/em> of her lies, grievances and conspiracies. \u00a0Sometimes, they like such things, depending on who&#8217;s claiming victimhood. \u00a0Abrams is about to become her party&#8217;s gubernatorial nominee for the second time in two tries, but she&#8217;s currently consumed by November-minded <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/leahbarkoukis\/2022\/05\/24\/stacey-abrams-tries-to-explain-her-georgia-comment-n2607707\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">damage control<\/a>. \u00a0She&#8217;s playing defense over her amazing weekend soundbyte in which she <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/madelineleesman\/2022\/05\/23\/stacey-abrams-calls-georgia-the-worst-state-to-live-ahead-of-primary-n2607661\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">declared Georgia to be<\/a> the worst state in the country in which to live. \u00a0She can add all the &#8220;context&#8221; she wants. \u00a0She just rolled out <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JJHunt10\/status\/1528779090203115520\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">the campaign slogan<\/a> that Republicans will tie to her for the next five months: &#8220;Georgia &#8212; <em>we&#8217;re the worst.<\/em>&#8220;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">RGA already running with Abrams\u2019 inexplicable gaffe: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2Srv9YpFGy\">https:\/\/t.co\/2Srv9YpFGy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Josh Kraushaar (@HotlineJosh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HotlineJosh\/status\/1528842577755230213?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Notice the reticent smattering of applause, even from a friendly crowd. \u00a0Georgia has been a leading state not just for doing business, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.albanyherald.com\/news\/georgia-population-growth-outstrips-most-states\/article_0b566ef6-6284-11ec-a3ea-53af9a085859.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">for population influx<\/a>, in recent years. \u00a0People aren&#8217;t flocking to the Peach State because it&#8217;s a dystopian hellhole. Contra what Abrams says in the clip, <em>unemployment<\/em> is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.covnews.com\/news\/business\/commissioner-wage-increases-pushing-georgia-consumer-costs\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">on the decline<\/a> in the state, not wages. \u00a0Wages are up. \u00a0Are they up enough to overcome inflation? \u00a0Likely not, in many cases, but that&#8217;s true across the country, and it&#8217;s certainly not an indictment of Gov. Brian Kemp and state-level Republicans. \u00a0Inflation is a calling card of the national Democrats and their failed policies. \u00a0They were warned about inflation by some of their own smartest economists, then wasted trillions in new spending anyway. \u00a0The problem has spiraled. \u00a0They only avoided lighting the place on fire with $5 trillion in additional spending last year because two Senators (out of three Congressional Democrats, total, who opposed &#8216;Build Back Better&#8217;) wouldn&#8217;t go along with the insane scheme. \u00a0Now they&#8217;re playing <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LHSummers\/status\/1528568277378662403?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">stupid, harmful<\/a> scapegoating games about the problem they fueled, as voters identify it as <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/1528921211211743232\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">their top concern<\/a>, by far:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FiveThirtyEight?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@FiveThirtyEight<\/a> asked 2,000 Americans about their biggest concern.<\/p>\n<p>Here are their answers: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OR9C4BO4WL\">https:\/\/t.co\/OR9C4BO4WL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MlBdk6jVLA\">pic.twitter.com\/MlBdk6jVLA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABCPolitics\/status\/1528921211211743232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stacey Abrams is a tax-and-spend leftist Democrat who has not opposed a single inflationary policy of her party&#8217;s governance at the federal level. \u00a0Her problem is that people are moving to Georgia in droves because conservative governance has been a success. \u00a0Her problem is that it&#8217;s obviously not the worst place in the country to live, and quite a few Georgians will take exception to that claim. \u00a0And her problem is that alongside a <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2022\/01\/13\/desperate-demagogue-those-who-oppose-my-elections-power-grab-are-domestic-enemies-n2601751\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">disgracefully demagogic<\/a> President of the United States, she is the most visible face of the &#8216;Jim Crow&#8217; voting reform lie that is unraveling before our eyes this week. \u00a0Early and absentee balloting has not merely increased over the last midterm cycle, &#8220;despite&#8221; the &#8220;suppression.&#8221; \u00a0It has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1528821049357488131\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">skyrocketed<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">CNN graphic just now marvels at record-smashing turnout \u201cdespite law restricting voting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Yes, \u201crestricting voting\u201d suppressed the early primary vote total from 230k four years ago to\u2026857k this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1528821049357488131?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Abrams said her state was engaged in modern-day &#8216;Jim Crow&#8217; &#8212; which would be deeply evil, if true &#8212; then ran away from the <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2021\/04\/14\/new-boycotts-against-georgia-n2587804\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">boycotts<\/a> she directly inspired when she realized they might hurt her politically. \u00a0Now she&#8217;s trying to spin the opposite-of-suppression &#8220;suppression&#8221; to justify her wildly dishonest talking points that are being debunked by reality in real time. \u00a0It&#8217;s sounding <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1528853200677261314\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">every bit as ridiculous<\/a> as you might expect:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">2018: 320k early\/absentee votes in GA primaries<\/p>\n<p>2021: Jim Crow on Steroids\/voter suppression implemented in GA<\/p>\n<p>2022: 857k early\/absentee votes in GA primaries<\/p>\n<p>Stacey Abrams: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1hKtQ2B1YO\">pic.twitter.com\/1hKtQ2B1YO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1528853200677261314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Abrams on Georgia\u2019s election law &#038; whether record turnout negates critiques: \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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tia Mitchell, AJC\u2019s Washington Correspondent (@ajconwashington) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ajconwashington\/status\/1529112152824549378?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Democrat Stacey Abrams on Georgia&#8217;s skyrocketing turnout: &#8220;We know that increased turnout has nothing to do with suppression&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MzTnwNY7KK\">pic.twitter.com\/MzTnwNY7KK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RNC Research (@RNCResearch) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RNCResearch\/status\/1529119592294932480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Thrown back&#8221; because the fear-mongering &#8212; Stacey Abrams&#8217; fear-mongering &#8212; was rooted in a fiction. \u00a0Abrams and her party will be available for accountability in November. \u00a0Where is the accountability for corporate entities that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/mlb-silent-pulling-atlanta-all-star-game-georgia-voting-law?intcmp=tw_fnc\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">spread partisan lies<\/a>? \u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">MLB won&#8217;t say if it regrets moving All-Star Game over GA voting law after voting records shatter narrative <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QXS3Bkc4ns\">https:\/\/t.co\/QXS3Bkc4ns<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fox News (@FoxNews) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoxNews\/status\/1528851944990703617?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Fascinating. Major League Baseball dove face-first into an ignorant, partisan boycott campaign last year, going so far as to uproot a showcase event for the sport out of Georgia and ostentatiously relocate it. \u00a0They made a loud statement, based on total falsehoods, and rife with <a href=\"https:\/\/townhall.com\/tipsheet\/guybenson\/2021\/04\/05\/suppression-mlb-must-move-its-headquarters-and-hall-of-fame-out-of-new-york-in-line-with-values-n2587380\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">mindless hypocrisy<\/a>. \u00a0And now that the extent of their embarrassment is quite obvious, they suddenly have nothing to say. \u00a0Is the MLB braintrust happy to see the <em>opposite<\/em> of suppression taking place, or not? \u00a0They should be pushed to answer these types of questions. \u00a0If they&#8217;re capable of learning a lesson, make it painful for them. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1529140655032872966\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">They earned it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">Here is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MLB?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MLB<\/a> commissioner&#8217;s statement last spring. Now that the partisan lie he embraced has been powerfully refuted by reality, will he be asked to comment on the vast increase in voter participation under the new law he opposed? Was robbing Atlanta of the ASG the right call? <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kvbbqMs9td\">pic.twitter.com\/kvbbqMs9td<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Guy Benson (@guypbenson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1529140655032872966?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Part of the accountability challenge, of course, is that the people positioned to ask these questions are journalists (including, if not especially, sports writers) who joined in the smear and are often ideological and partisan combatants who themselves need accountability. \u00a0On that score, I&#8217;ll leave you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1528834371255418880\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">with this performance<\/a> from a news reporter for NBC who gained prominence as a Resistance hero working at taxpayer-funded NPR during the Trump administration. \u00a0This would be a grotesque, unhinged smear coming from an MSNBC pundit. \u00a0But this is a supposed &#8216;journalist:&#8217;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\" style=\"text-align: center;\">NBC\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Yamiche?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Yamiche<\/a> on Ga.\u2019s \u201cvoter suppression laws\u201d:<\/p>\n<p>Republicans think &#8220;these black people don\u2019t deserve the access to citizenship in the way that other Americans do, that they haven\u2019t worked for it and they don\u2019t understand the weight of American democracy.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UdIuiXGjed\">pic.twitter.com\/UdIuiXGjed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1528834371255418880?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 23, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is her analysis as a Republican &#8220;voter suppression&#8221; law has &#8220;suppressed&#8221; the black vote all the way to&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/guypbenson\/status\/1527360116810739713\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>tripling<\/em> in early and absentee balloting<\/a>, compared to the previous, pre-Jim Crow 2.0 &#8220;suppression&#8221; midterm cycle. \u00a0No remorse, no introspection. \u00a0A post-truth double down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the world of Stacey Abrams, everything is rigged, and her endless lies, grievances and conspiracies are either unfalsifiable, or the falsification of them is simply ignored. \u00a0She&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"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-1491265","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\/1491265","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\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491265\/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=1491265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}