{"id":1641221,"date":"2022-09-14T16:49:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1641221"},"modified":"2022-09-14T16:50:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T20:50:01","slug":"im-not-delusional-stacey-abrams-claims-she-never-denied-losing-in-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/im-not-delusional-stacey-abrams-claims-she-never-denied-losing-in-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Not Delusional\u2019: Stacey Abrams Claims She \u2018Never Denied\u2019 Losing In 2018"},"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\">24<\/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%2Fim-not-delusional-stacey-abrams-claims-she-never-denied-losing-in-2018%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=1641221&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>Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/stacey-abrams\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Stacey Abrams<\/a>\u00a0claimed Wednesday that she had \u201cnever denied\u201d losing the 2018 gubernatorial race to current Governor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/brian-kemp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brian Kemp<\/a> (R-GA).<\/p>\n<p>Abrams made the claim on ABC\u2019s midday talk show \u201cThe View,\u201d saying that she was \u201cnot delusional\u201d and would likely have noticed had she been living in the Georgia governor\u2019s mansion all this time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/staceyabrams?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@staceyabrams<\/a>: &#8220;I have never denied that I lost&#8221; the last Georgia gubernatorial election. &#8220;I&#8217;m not delusional, just so that&#8217;s clear.&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nQElNjV6XB\">pic.twitter.com\/nQElNjV6XB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1570095757876924428?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Co-host Sunny Hostin began the conversation, noting that Abrams had voiced concerns about \u201cvoter suppression\u201d in 2018 and asking whether she felt that was still a major concern going into a 2022 election that was essentially a rematch between the two candidates.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you lost in 2018, you didn\u2019t traditionally concede, which I appreciated, because you cited voter suppression,\u201d Hostin said. \u201cAre you confident that this will be a free and fair \u2026 election and not a repeat performance of what happened before?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I appreciate the question and the framing,\u201d Abrams replied. \u201cI have never denied that I lost, I don\u2019t live in the governor\u2019s mansion \u2014 I would have noticed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The audience laughed as Abrams shook her head.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s this clip that\u2019s going around and it shows me saying that we won,\u201d Abrams continued, going on to explain that what she had meant was that her push to get more people registered to vote and engaged in what was going on had driven more people out to the polls \u2014 from communities that traditionally had lower turnouts \u2014 had been successful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I\u2019m not delusional, just so that\u2019s clear,\u201d Abrams insisted, prompting laughter. \u201cBut what we know is that the issues that we raised in \u201918, the fact that 214 precincts were shut down, the 53,000 people had their voter registrations held hostage, that 1.4 million people were purged \u2014 including half a million people who simply had chosen not to vote \u2014 that we were able to tackle that because we raised the issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abrams, who <a href=\"https:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/stacey-abrams-stands-by-her-refusal-to-concede-in-2018-rejects-trump-comparisons-215209479.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">never offered<\/a> a traditional \u201cconcession\u201d to Kemp, has long claimed that she would acknowledge that he was the governor \u2014 but has always included as an aside that the system in Georgia is broken.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI acknowledge that [Kemp] won, but I will never say that a system that is broken \u2014 that denied people their right to vote \u2014 is the right thing to have in the state and as part of democracy,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams\u00a0claimed Wednesday that she had \u201cnever denied\u201d losing the 2018 gubernatorial race to current Governor Brian Kemp (R-GA). Abrams made the claim on ABC\u2019s midday talk show \u201cThe View,\u201d saying that she was \u201cnot delusional\u201d and would likely have noticed had she been living in the Georgia governor\u2019s mansion all &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1641223,"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-1641221","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\/1641221","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=1641221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1641221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1641221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1641221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1641221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}