Stacey Abrams to Rachel Maddow: 'I did not challenge the outcome of the election' for Georgia governor in 2018. Also Stacey Abrams: Election was 'stolen.'

Now that Stacey Abrams has tossed her hat in the ring for another run at the Georgia governor's chair, the far-left activist and darling of the Democratic Party is making the rounds on friendly news programs to pump up her candidacy.

Indeed, Abrams appeared on Rachel Maddow's MSNBC show Thursday night to face a barrage of softball questions and observations — one of which focused on Abrams' loss to Brian Kemp in 2018 for Georgia governor.

Maddow called out a "disturbing dynamic in that race, which was that" Kemp "was secretary of state at the time and was engaged in really aggressive, what appeared to be voter suppression tactics, including throwing huge numbers of Georgians off the voting rolls in a way that seemed to benefit his own candidacy in which he was on the ballot."

Continuing with her windup, Maddow added to Abrams that "when you so narrowly lost, you famously were contentious about the loss, saying that you didn't necessarily think it had been a fair fight. Stepping back now, a few years out of that, and seeing what's happened both in Georgia and around the country around the issues of fairness in elections, how do you feel about that now ... and how do you want people to understand how that dynamic affected the race the first time?"

Abrams replied to Maddow that after battling against Kemp's "egregious and aggressive voter suppression activities" and losing the race to him, "I acknowledged that I would not become the governor, that he had won the election."

Then the kicker: "I did not challenge the outcome of the election, unlike some recent folks did," Abrams added in a not-so-subtle reference to former President Donald Trump after he lost a year ago to President Joe Biden.

"What I said was that the system was not fair. And leaders challenge systems. Leaders say we can do better. And that's what I declared. I could not in good conscience say that, in order to prote... (Read more)

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