It’s always odd to see someone denying doing or saying something when the moment in question is clearly caught on video or observed by witnesses. Former (and current) Georgia Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, however, is not afraid to make a fool of herself by asserting that she never denied the outcome of the 2018 race despite saying the opposite repeatedly in print and on tape. Abrams famously ran for governor against Republican Brian Kemp, and despite fawning media coverage and the backing of numerous celebrities, she lost to Kemp 50-49.
Abrams appeared on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront on Monday, and laughably claimed she always admitted Kemp won fair and square:
I have never denied the outcome. I have always questioned the process and the access. And I think it’s dangerous and disingenuous to conflate concerns about access and concerns about outcome. Outcome is about who wins. And no one is entitled to victory, including myself. I have never been unclear about the fact that I did not win the race.
Oh really, Stacey? Too bad you can still search the internet and find the 2019 New York Times interview in which you said:
If you look at my immediate reaction after the election, I refused to concede.
It was largely because I could not prove what had happened, but I knew from the calls that we got that something happened. Now, I cannot say that everybody who tried to cast a ballot would’ve voted for me, but if you look at the totality of the information, it is sufficient to demonstrate that so many people were disenfranchised and disengaged by the very act of the person who won the election that I feel comfortable now saying, “I won.”
Call me crazy, but that sure sounds like election denial to me. Oh, but there’s more. Here she flatly declares at the 2019 annual convention of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, “We won.“
Here she is in 2018 conceding–not conceding–the election despite it clearly being a done-deal:
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