Stacey Abrams Quotes
I did win my election, I just didn't get to have the job.
Abrams said this to an audience in March 2019, several months after Kemp moved into the governor's mansion.
Statement made after losing her bid to become Georgia’s governor to Brian Kemp (R). Abrams made multiple variations on this statement up until Donald Trump made a pariah of “election denial” after which she began to modify her statements.
Statement made after losing her bid to become Georgia’s governor to Brian Kemp (R). Abrams made multiple variations on this statement up until Donald Trump made a pariah of “election denial” after which she began to modify her statements.
Seward had been the odds on favorite to win the Republican Presidential nomination and was totally surprised when he did not and Lincoln did. Seward was one of the most prominent politicians in the nation while Lincoln was a relative unknown who had served a single non descript term in the House of Representatives. However, there were other prominent Republicans contesting for the nomination. Lincoln’s team followed a strategy of trying to be the second choice of many of the delegations who favored another candidate. When none of the front runners could muster a majority, delegations started shifting to their second choices and that’s when Lincoln ended up with the majority beating his better known opponents.
The immediate election in question was the first democratic election in Iraq where the existing divisions among the Suni, the Shiites and the Kurds may have increased if one got a significant upper hand. In America the 2000 and 2004 elections were also very divisive.
He saw Obama’s name as a fatal problem with the American Electorate which turned out to be more tolerant than Brown gave them credit for.
Some things do not change in democratic politics.
The "It" referred to the fact that when he won the Gambian Presidential election, his predecessor refused to step down and had enough control of the military to prevent anyone else in the Gambia to force hium out. However a few neighboring Afriucan States sen troops into the Gambia. The Army did not want a way and so they stopped supporting the ex-president and he left the country in disgrace.
- Born: December 9, 1973
- Nationality: American
- Profession: Politician
Stacey Yvonne Abrams is an American politician, lawyer, voting rights activist, and author who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, serving as minority leader from 2011 to 2017.
