His popular vote margin was 54,723 out of 3,902,093 votes cast - a close race but an unambiguous result.
Abrams had plenty of reason to be proud of her run: She got 800,000 more votes than any previous Democrat and a higher percentage than any Democrat since 1998.
Abrams wants you to think that this is voter suppression, in line with the barring of black people to vote in Georgia and other Southern states before passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Why do politicians like Harris, Warren and Abrams make such refutable claims? The cynical explanation is that they're appealing to black voters and promising to redress their grievances.
How many black Americans really believe they're barred from voting or more vulnerable to police violence than half a century ago?
What "Sounds like an exclusive appeal to minority voters," writes the New York Post's Michael Goodwin, is "Just as likely to be aimed at those whites embarrassed by their race."
Now journalistic fact-checkers are disciplining their attempts to play the racism card.
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2019/08/16/will-factcheckers-foil-democrats-attempts-to-play-the-race-card-n2551783
Abrams had plenty of reason to be proud of her run: She got 800,000 more votes than any previous Democrat and a higher percentage than any Democrat since 1998.
Abrams wants you to think that this is voter suppression, in line with the barring of black people to vote in Georgia and other Southern states before passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Why do politicians like Harris, Warren and Abrams make such refutable claims? The cynical explanation is that they're appealing to black voters and promising to redress their grievances.
How many black Americans really believe they're barred from voting or more vulnerable to police violence than half a century ago?
What "Sounds like an exclusive appeal to minority voters," writes the New York Post's Michael Goodwin, is "Just as likely to be aimed at those whites embarrassed by their race."
Now journalistic fact-checkers are disciplining their attempts to play the racism card.
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelbarone/2019/08/16/will-factcheckers-foil-democrats-attempts-to-play-the-race-card-n2551783
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