Stacey Abrams Says She Never Denied She Lost the 2018 Election: ‘I’m Not Delusional’

Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams (D) said on Wednesday’s episode of ABC’s “The View” that she never denied losing the 2018 governor’s race.

The question was brought up by co-host Sunny Hostin who noted that since this is her second run against current Georgia Gov. 👤Brian Kemp (R) and with polling being so tight, questioned how things might go differently this time around.

“So this is your second run against incumbent 👤Brian Kemp for governor, and polls show a tight race, especially the poll this morning. When you lost in 2018, you didn’t traditionally concede which I appreciated because you cited voter suppression. Are you confident that this will be a free and fair election, and not a repeat performance of what happened before?” Hostin asked.

Abrams thanked Hostin for the question and said, “I have never denied that I lost. I don’t live in the governor’s mansion. I would have noticed,” she said. 

“And there is this clip that’s going around, and it shows me saying that we won, and what I was referring to was that we won in terms of communities that were long left out of the electoral process finally participating in ’18 in outstanding numbers,” Abrams said.

The gubernatorial candidate then clarified, “But I’m not delusional. Just so that’s clear, but what we know was that the issues that we raised in ’18, the fact that 214 precincts were shut down, that 53,000 people had their voter registrations held hostage, that 1.4 million people were purged, including half a million who simply had chosen not to vote, that we were able to tackle that because we raised the issues, because I refused to say that that was a good thing.”