Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams couldn’t carry herself to confess she misplaced a governor’s race in 2018 — now she will be able to’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 truly 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 well-liked 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 preserve misremembering what occurred in November,” she stated.
“Sure, Donald Trump gained the election, however this wasn’t a landslide. It was an evenly divided nation. He obtained extra folks, however this was not the seismic shift the place 57, 58 % of America stated ‘no.’
“It was lower than 50 % of the voters who stated, ‘That is what we wish.’”
Try the video right here. However spoiler alert: On the substance of it, she’s useless mistaken.
As is common with achieved, shameless liars — and Abrams’s branding her state’s totally wise 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 %, based on Reuters.)
However Abrams can also be “misremembering” just about all the pieces in regards to the 2024 election earlier than the precise votes had been solid.
Trump ran within the enamel of an unprecedented marketing campaign of legalized warfare that noticed him face prison indictments on the state stage in New York and Georgia and on the federal stage in each Washington, D.C., and Florida. (The FBI staged an armed raid of his residence at South Florida’s Mar-a-Lago Membership in 2022, for crying out loud.)
He ran in opposition to the mixed would possibly 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 % of Trump protection within the mainstream media was damaging whereas 84 % 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 court docket jesters of late-night tv, and just about each different cultural establishment that makes a play of political relevance attacked him — and his supporters.
And regardless of all of it, he gained — and he gained it in convincing trend. 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 because of American weak point, the American voters rendered a verdict on Democrats and their media enablers that thundered across the globe.
It is perhaps comprehensible that Abrams’s views of elections are skewed. As a two-time loser in Georgia’s gubernatorial contests — 2018 and 2022 — she would possibly fail to understand what democracy seems like outdoors 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 is perhaps why it was so hard for Abrams to confess she misplaced the primary time round. (When Republicans do 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 folks had seen by means of 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, in brief, 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 straightforward.
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 straightforward — in addition to his political opposition at residence and enemies overseas, he has a fractious Republican Party to unite and work with as nicely.
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.