Republican Gov. Brian Kemp beat Democrat Stacey Abrams on Nov. 8 for the second time, as Abrams conceded before the clock struck midnight. “Let me begin by offering congratulations to Gov. Brian Kemp,” Abrams told supporters in Atlanta. “I am suspending my campaign for governor,” she added later. Kemp had approximately 53.7 percent of the […]
Democrat Kwanza Hall, a former member of the Atlanta City Council who also briefly served in Congress, has broken with his party to endorse two Republican candidates for offices in Georgia in the upcoming midterm election. Hall on Friday endorsed Gov. Brian Kemp, the GOP nominee for reelection, snubbing Democrat gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams. “Over […]
Brian Kemp and Stacey Abrams’s second debate on Sunday night sounded a lot like their first one on Oct. 17. The two veteran candidates were on their games. Neither committed a notable gaffe or game-changing miscue. They sparred about things they’ve fought about before, bringing to bear the facts supporting their respective sides. They each […]
A federal judge on Friday threw out a lawsuit filed by Stacey Abrams challenging Georgia’s election system after she lost the 2018 gubernatorial race to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp. The lawsuit, which sought to change how the state administers elections, was filed around four years ago by Fair Fight Georgia, a political action committee established by […]
Incumbent Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) easily defeated former Senator David Perdue Tuesday in a tough Republican gubernatorial primary battle. With 9 percent of the precincts reporting at 7:51 p.m. ET, Kemp received more than 72 percent of the vote and was projected as the winner by Decision Desk HQ. Kemp now advances to the general […]
A federal judge is rejecting an effort by Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams to challenge a new fundraising law in Georgia. U.S. District Judge Mark Cohen refused to grant Abrams a preliminary injunction blocking the law, but the case isn’t over yet.
Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams apologized on Tuesday for posing maskless in a room full of masked children. The Democrat in her apology said she had made a “mistake” when she posed for a photograph at Glennwood Elementary School in Decatur during a visit on Feb. 4, without wearing a mask. “I approached the podium with […]
The campaign of Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams responded Feb. 6 after rivals attacked the Democrat for posing maskless in a room full of masked children. “It is shameful that our opponents are using a Black History Month reading event for Georgia children as the impetus for a false political attack, and it is pitiful […]
Stacey Abrams, who is running for governor of Georgia, is facing backlash because she visited a school over the weekend and posed with her bare face in a room full of children, who were all masked. Abrams’s political opponents criticized her for being hypocritical, but Abrams’s campaign called those attacks shameful and a distraction.
Democratic activist Stacey Abrams is once again running for governor of Georgia. “I’m running for governor because opportunity in our state shouldn’t be determined by zip code, background or access to power,” Abrams said in a statement. Abrams, 47, announced her 2022 bid on Nov. 30. She was defeated by current Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp […]
Stacey Abrams is an ambitious politician from the state of Georgia. She wants to be governor of Georgia and then president of the USA. The only problem? Her communist background. Trevor Loudon exposes the real Stacey Abrams. Counterpunch is an Epoch Times show available on Facebook, Gab, and YouTube. Support Counterpunch: https://donorbox.org/counterpunch Follow Epoch TV […]
Former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler, a Republican, is ramping up the rhetoric around the key role of her new get-out-the-vote drive—called Greater Georgia—to counter Fair Fight, the voter participation initiative founded by former Democratic congressional representative Stacey Abrams. Loeffler has warned that if the GOP can’t successfully rebuff Abrams’s movement, they won’t win another seat […]
A federal judge on Monday ordered two counties in Georgia to stop the removal of thousands of voters from voter rolls. Election boards in Ben Hill and Muscogee counties this month ruled there was probable cause to sustain challenges to thousands of registered voters. The challenges cited the U.S. Postal Service’s National Change of Address in […]
Failed Democratic Georgia candidate Stacey Abrams revealed on Sunday, April 28, that she still believes she was victorious during her 2018 gubernatorial race despite losing by nearly 55,000 votes. “If you look at my immediate reaction after the election, I refused to concede,” Abrams told The New York Times Magazine. “It was largely because I could […]
Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp resigned as secretary of state on Nov. 8 as he appeared to definitively win the race for governor. Kemp’s office announced that Kemp had tendered his resignation letter to Gov. Nathan Deal and that it was effective at 11:59 a.m. on Nov. 8. “We deeply appreciate Brian Kemp’s public […]
A picture emerged late Oct. 22 showing Stacey Abrams, the Democrat gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, burning the state’s flag during a protest. Abrams admitted to burning the flag on the steps of the state’s Capitol in June 1992. She was a freshman at Atlanta’s Spelman College at the time of the protest, which organizers described […]
