Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams couldn’t bring herself to admit she lost a governor’s race in 2018 — now she can’t admit the sweep of President-elect Donald Trump’s win in 2024. The twice-losing standard-bearer for the Democrats in the Peach State appeared on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes” on Monday, ostensibly to reflect on the legacy of former President Jimmy Carter. Instead, she exposed just how blind her party actually is.
Abrams’s comments about November came toward the end of a nine-minute interview, when she declared that Trump’s victory was being misunderstood. To hear Abrams tell it, an election that saw Trump on the table on the way to an Electoral College romp of , in addition to winning more popular votes than his Democratic opponent (a first for Republicans since George W. Bush did it in 2004), was more like a squeaker than a landslide.
“We keep misremembering what happened in November,” she said. “Yes, Donald Trump won the election, but this wasn’t a landslide. It was an evenly divided nation.
He got more people, but this was not the seismic shift where 57, 58 percent of America said ‘no.’ “It was less than 50 percent of the electorate who said, ‘This is what we want.'” Check out the video here.
But spoiler alert: On the substance of it, she’s dead wrong. As is usual with accomplished, shameless liars — and Abrams’s branding her state’s utterly sensible election integrity law as proved she’s both — Abrams based.
