(Headline USA) Failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams continues to defend her “Big Lie” about the 2018 election she lost and refused to concede.
Asked on Monday whether she will “acknowledge the victor” in Georgia’s upcoming gubernatorial election if she loses once again, Abrams claimed she has the right to “legitimately question” the system.
“I will always acknowledge the legal outcome of an election. I have never failed to do that,” she told Axios.
This is not true. In 2018, after losing to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, Abrams refused to concede and insisted that Kemp “stole” the election from her.
“Concession needs to say something is right and true and proper. … You can’t trick me into saying it was right,” she said at the time.
She also refused to acknowledge Kemp’s certification as governor.
“To watch an elected official – who claims to represent the people in this state, baldly pin his hopes for election on the suppression of the people’s democratic right to vote – has been truly appalling,” Abrams continued. “So let’s be clear, this is not a speech of concession.”
As recently as this past December, Abrams was still pushing the conspiracy theory that Kemp rigged the 2018 election while he was secretary of state.
When pressed on whether her comments had emboldened former President Donald Trump to make similar claims about the 2020 presidential election, Abrams claimed we should never “be in a place as Americans were we cannot legitimately question and critique systems.”
“I should be held accountable for everything I say, be able to tie it to evidentiary facts,” Abrams said. “And that’s what I’ve been doing. And that’s what I’ll continue to do.”
