front of mind for many of these both candidates and supporters here today is the idea of what happened in the georgia governor's race with stacey abrams and brian kemp. i was talking to sherrod brown a while ago and he said he feels that election was stolen from stacey abrams. that's something i've heard from voters across campaign rallies, who talked about what stacey abrams meant to them in 2018 and the role she could play going forward in 2020. but voter suppression was on the top of everyone's mind here. all the candidates spoke about it. take a listen to what they had to say. >> you cannot preach right and do wrong. you can't come to selma to remember what happened in the past and leave here and forget the obligations of the present. >> real populism is never racist. real populism is never anti-semitic. real populism doesn't divide people. real populism doesn't push some people down to lift others up. >> now, democracy and the right to vote is not some esoteric intellectual concept.