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Battle for Georgia Ballot 2022: Ongoing Election Day coverage

['Georgia Recorder Staff', 'Jill Nolin', 'Ross Williams', 'Stanley Dunlap', 'More From Author', '- May']

Date: 2022-05-24 00:00:00

Abrams takes high road after racist Perdue remarks, looks to November showdown

Democrat Stacey Abrams told a large group of reporters gathered outside an Atlanta polling place Tuesday morning that Election Day marks the “beginning of the next phase of this campaign.”

Abrams is running unopposed for the Democratic nomination and will emerge tonight as the official nominee. Polls suggest she is headed toward a rematch with Gov. Brian Kemp, who faces Trump-endorsed former U.S. Sen. David Perdue in the GOP primary. She narrowly lost to Kemp in 2018.

Kemp and Perdue have been sparring for months over who is better positioned to beat Abrams in the fall.

Republicans have recently seized on a comment Abrams made to Gwinnett County Democrats where she said Georgia was the “worst state in the country to live,” referring to quality of life statistics like the state’s dismal maternal mortality ranking.

Perdue referenced the comment in controversial remarks made to his supporters Monday evening in Dunwoody. “Hey, she ain’t from here. Let her go back to where she came from. She doesn’t like it here,” he said.

Abrams, speaking to reporters gathered outside of Kirkwood’s Israel Baptist Church, declined to specifically respond to Perdue’s remarks Tuesday but had this to say:

“I have listened to Republicans for the last six months attack me. But they’ve done nothing to attack the challenges facing Georgia. They’ve done nothing to articulate their plans for the future of Georgia. Their response to a comment on their record is to deflect and to pretend that they have done good for the people of Georgia.

“The challenge I have is that the answer from Republicans, from our former senator to our current governor, is to fight me instead of fighting the problems that are facing Georgia, and I urge everyone to pay less attention to rhetoric and more attention to the record and to the results, and I’m here to provide results for the future of Georgia.”

She referred to her original comment as “an inelegant delivery of a statement that I will keep making and that is that Brian Kemp is a failed governor who doesn’t care about the people in Georgia.”

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