Abrams, Kemp Spar Over 2018 Race, Unproven Voter Suppression Claims

Republican Gov. Brian Kemp of Georgia and Democrat Stacey Abrams clashed during a Monday evening gubernatorial debate over the 2018 election and unproven claims of voter suppression.

“In 2018, I began my speech on Nov. 16, acknowledging that Governor Kemp had won the election,” Abrams said. “I then proceeded to lay out in great detail the challenges faced by voters under his leadership as secretary of state.”

Abrams refused to concede to Kemp in 2018, claiming “concession means to acknowledge an action is right, true, or proper” and that she could not do that, alleging voter suppression.

“I would just say that Miss Abrams is going to do a lot of attacking of my record tonight, because she doesn’t want to talk about her own record in 2018, in the governor’s race we had the largest African American turnout in the country,” Kemp said. “She said that Senate bill 202, our recent election integrity act we passed two years ago, would be suppressive and Jim Crow 2.0. Just this past May in our primaries, we again had record turnout in the Republican primary and the democratic primary in Georgia.”