Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams couldn’t convey herself to confess she misplaced a governor’s race in 2018 — now she will’t admit the sweep of President-elect Donald Trump’s win in 2024.
The twice-losing standard-bearer for the Democrats within the Peach State appeared on MSNBC’s “All in with Chris Hayes” on Monday, ostensibly to replicate on the legacy of former President Jimmy Carter.
As an alternative, she uncovered simply how blind her get together really is.
Abrams’s feedback about November got here towards the top of a nine-minute interview, when she declared that Trump’s victory was being misunderstood.
To listen to Abrams inform it, an election that noticed Trump win every swing state on the desk on the best way to an Electoral Faculty romp of 312 to 226, along with successful extra common votes than his Democratic opponent (a primary for Republicans since George W. Bush did it in 2004), was extra like a squeaker than a landslide.
“We hold misremembering what occurred in November,” she stated.
“Sure, Donald Trump received the election, however this wasn’t a landslide. It was an evenly divided nation. He acquired extra individuals, however this was not the seismic shift the place 57, 58 p.c of America stated ‘no.’
“It was lower than 50 p.c of the citizens who stated, ‘That is what we would like.’”
Take a look at the video right here. However spoiler alert: On the substance of it, she’s useless flawed.
As is common with achieved, shameless liars — and Abrams’s branding her state’s totally smart election integrity regulation as “the new Jim Crow” proved she’s each — Abrams based mostly her assertion on a technically correct truth: Trump didn’t win nearly all of the favored votes solid in November.
(He had 49.9 p.c, based on Reuters.)
However Abrams can be “misremembering” just about the whole lot concerning the 2024 election earlier than the precise votes had been solid.
Trump ran within the tooth of an unprecedented marketing campaign of legalized warfare that noticed him face legal indictments on the state degree in New York and Georgia and on the federal degree in each Washington, D.C., and Florida. (The FBI staged an armed raid of his house at South Florida’s Mar-a-Lago Membership in 2022, for crying out loud.)
He ran towards the mixed may of the institution media, which blanketed his marketing campaign with crucial protection whereas fawning over the marketing campaign of Vice President Kamala Harris.
(In August, the conservative Media Research Center estimated 89 p.c of Trump protection within the mainstream media was damaging whereas 84 p.c of Harris protection was constructive.)
He ran whereas the barons of social media (excepting X proprietor and Trump supporter Elon Musk), the glitterati of Hollywood, the political courtroom jesters of late-night tv, and nearly each different cultural establishment that makes a play of political relevance attacked him — and his supporters.
And regardless of all of it, he received — and he received it in convincing style. Contra Abrams, the outcomes represented a “seismic shift” in American voting.
After 4 years of failure from President Joe Biden’s White Home, after watching the southern border surrendered to an invasion of illegal immigration, the economic system struck with crippling inflation, and the world on fireplace due to American weak spot, the American citizens rendered a verdict on Democrats and their media enablers that thundered across the globe.
It could be comprehensible that Abrams’s views of elections are skewed. As a two-time loser in Georgia’s gubernatorial contests — 2018 and 2022 — she may fail to understand what democracy appears like exterior the overwhelmingly Democratic Atlanta area she represented within the Georgia legislature for a decade.
Successful an election in a pleasant discipline isn’t precisely preparation for the massive time, which could be why it was so hard for Abrams to confess she misplaced the primary time round. (When Republicans try this, the institution media calls it denying the election.)
However that doesn’t make her take any extra acceptable — and an interviewer with much less of an agenda and extra integrity than MSNBC’s abysmal Chris Hayes may need pointed it out.
What Donald Trump achieved by successful in November was a milestone in American historical past.
It confirmed the American individuals had seen via the lies of the Biden White Home, the Democratic Celebration and the institution media and turned the nation away from the collision course with disaster the Biden-Harris period represented for the nation and its future.
That, briefly, is a seismic shift.
Abrams and Democratic colleagues can deny the truth of that election end result all they need — attempting to deal with a defeat of that magnitude can’t be simple.
However info, as John Adams famously stated, are cussed issues.
And the principal truth is that Donald Trump is lower than three weeks from being inaugurated because the forty seventh president on Jan. 20.
His presidency isn’t going to be simple — moreover his political opposition at house and enemies overseas, he has a fractious Republican Party to unite and work with as properly.
However the nation proved in November that it considers him the person for the job.
Till Democrats come to grips with that, and perceive simply how poisonous their get together’s model is — with its criminal-coddling insurance policies and contempt for working People — they’re going to remain within the political wilderness, irrespective of how a lot the cultural elite pushes in any other case.
And so they’re going to remain as blind as Stacy Abrams is now.
This text appeared initially on The Western Journal.
