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Office. >> i don't think it is a problem and i agree with your assess many of abrams on the stump. she's really talented. i have a big concern about her. that her advocacy about voting rights, i agree with. but she has leaned over into conspiracy territory in a way that is a little bit concerning to me. she said some things that if trump had said it, we would be condemning it. saying the election was stolen from her, she was the rightful winner. there was definitely some purging of the rules that should not have been there. she got a million more votes. >> i'm not even talking about policy. i'...

>> i think stacey abrams is more talented than anyone in the field. i have a big concern that her advocacy about voting rights i agree with, but she has leaned over into conspiracy territory in a way that's concerning to me. she said some things that if trump had said it, we would be condemning it, saying the election was stolen from her, she was the rightful winner. i mean, there was definitely some -- there definitely was some purging of the rolls that shouldn't have been there but she got a million -- >> joyce, i'm not even talking about policy. i'm talking about a person, and you fall in l...

Integrity, and it was never about voter fraud. exceptionally rare that we saw voter fraud. but suppression was a massive problem. and it didn't come in just one package. it came in multiple different times. >> she lost by a lot of votes, though. it wasn't that close. >> the history of georgia and the section 5 of the voting rights act is that the state of georgia couldn't make changes in their voting practices unless they were precleared by the justice department because of the history of voting rights. it's clear that without voter suppression, she would be governor of the state of georgia. >...

Than any of the other candidates have said but she to me is a secret weapon for the base. >> stacey abrams is an amazing leader. she won more votes than any democrat in the history of the state of georgia. she brought on african-american voters, latinos in record voters, young people in record numbers.charisma. she is an amazing leader. in addition, her work to make sure that every vote should count is critical. we talked about the work mitch mcconnell did in the courts, the rolling back of section 5 of the voting rights act has led to massive purging of people of color from the voter rolls, p...

The last 20 years has faced some vestige of suppression. the supreme court gutted the voting rights act and we know states that used to be covered under the voting rights act have increased their purging and we've seen stricter and stricter laws that make it harder and harder to vote. what we can do in 2019 is prepare states to fight back and by the time we get to 2020 and have a nominee for the democratic party, we'll have in place voter protection teams in all 20 of the battleground states. that's for the senate and races where state legislative initiatives will change who draws the maps in ...