(Headline USA) When radical leftist Stacey Abrams lost the Georgia governor’s race to Republican Brian Kemp four years ago, she threw a temper tantrum.
She ended her campaign with a nonconcession that acknowledged she wouldn’t be governor, while whining that Kemp had cheated by using his post as secretary of state to improperly purge likely Democratic voters. Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, a group focused on fair elections, which within weeks filed a wide-ranging federal lawsuit alleging “gross mismanagement” of Georgia’s elections.
She lost that lawsuit Friday. This final loss comes more than a year after the judge had tossed most earlier claims.
Republicans are now using the loss to show the big lie that underlies Abrams’ career. They label her claims that Georgia’s election system has been discriminatory as a fraud she used to enrich herself and aggrandize her political career after her 2018 loss.
“This is existential to who Stacey Abrams has become as a public and political figure,” Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, a Republican who defended the case, told The Associated Press on Saturday. “She put herself in the political spotlight nationally, potentially globally, all over the narrative that she lost the governor’s race because of voter suppression. And here you have a federal judge saying, it’s all untrue. It didn’t happen.”
Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said that “stolen election and voter suppression claims by Stacey Abrams were nothing but poll-tested rhetoric not supported by facts and evidence.”
Adapted from reporting by the Associated Press
