Stacey Abrams: Trump Invoking My Name Is ‘Irrelevant’
Georgia Democrat shrugs off former president's backhanded "endorsement"
Erstwhile Georgia gubernatorial candidate — and Democratic heroine — Stacey Abrams is blithely shrugging off Donald Trump's backhanded endorsement of her during a recent MAGA rally in the Peach State.
Still nursing his resentments from his loss of the 2020 election, Trump took a swipe at Georgia's Republican governor, Brian Kemp, for — in Trump’s mind — not demonstrating personal loyalty by abrogating the results of Georgia's 2020 presidential election, which Democrat Joe Biden narrowly won.
Trump was in Georgia late last month for one of his occasional rallies, when he said, “Stacey Abrams, who still has not conceded, and that's okay,” Trump said of Abrams, who ran against Kemp for governor in 2018 and lost by less than 1.5 points. “Stacey, would you like to take his place? It's OK with me.”
Since that narrow loss — fed by Kemp’s voter suppression efforts, at the time as the state’s incumbent secretary of state — Abrams has been consistently talked up as a rising star within the Democratic Party who helped Democrats successfully fight against voter suppression efforts.
Although she has made no announcement, she is considered likely for a rematch against Kemp next year.
But Abrams has dismissed Trump’s backhanded compliment.
“It’s irrelevant. His posture is not relevant to the work that I’m doing or to the positions I take,” she said in an on-air interview with CNN. “My responsibility is to do what I can to ensure that no matter who you are, and no matter who you choose, that you have the freedom to vote in the United States.
“And that is why we have to keep laser-focused on the assault on our democracy, an assault that not only happened on January 6 but has happened again and again since that time in statehouses that have restricted access to the right to vote and constricted not only that, but the ability of election workers to do their jobs,” Abrams added. “We are seeing election workers being put under direct assault and that is something we have to push back against.”
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