I'm learning a lot today. We have a thread here about Hillary Clinton's advice to Biden.
I had not heard that.
As I was talking to my friends about Trump dragging this out and the Georgia Senate race one said, "maybe it's a Georgia thing?"
I asked what they meant.
They said the 2018 Governor election ended with the loser refusing to concede. From NPR.
Did you know that?
I had not heard that.
As I was talking to my friends about Trump dragging this out and the Georgia Senate race one said, "maybe it's a Georgia thing?"
I asked what they meant.
They said the 2018 Governor election ended with the loser refusing to concede. From NPR.
Clearly, this is not the same as an incumbent president refusing to concede. The rest of the article goes on to describe more. I just had no idea the candidate refused to concede. I'm not saying it was wrong for her to do this. I'm saying I didn't know she refused to concede the election. I guess I should get out more.A refusal to concede isn't a new concept to Georgia. The 2018 Democratic candidate for governor, Stacey Abrams, also refused to concede to her Republican opponent, Brian Kemp.
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Abrams had stayed quiet for 10 days after the election while her campaign focused on getting more absentee and provisional ballots counted. Then she called a press conference at which she made a careful statement: "I acknowledge that former Secretary of State Brian Kemp will be certified as the victor in the 2018 gubernatorial election."
However, she declared, this was "not a speech of concession."
Kemp's duties at the time included overseeing the election. Abrams had been loudly critical of his policies and doubled down on those criticisms in the speech.
"You see, I'm supposed to say nice things and accept my fate. They will complain that I should not use this moment to recap what was done wrong or to demand a remedy," she said. "And I will not concede because the erosion of our democracy is not right."
At the time, Kemp's communications director, Ryan Mahoney called the nonconcession a "disgrace to democracy." Mahoney remains a senior strategist for now-Gov. Kemp.
"I think the one thing that was very clear, which is different than I think what we're seeing now, is that the numbers were undeniable," Mahoney said.
Abrams lost by nearly 55,000 votes and never did concede.
Did you know that?
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