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Georgia's Stacey Abrams navigates voting law fight with eye on 2022 Follow Us Question of the Day In this Nov. 2, 2020, file photo Stacey Abrams speaks to Biden supporters as they wait for former President Barack Obama to arrive and speak at a rally as he campaigns for Democratic presidential candidate former Vice President Joe Biden ... more > By Bill Barrow - Associated Press - Monday, April 19, 2021 ATLANTA (AP) — President Biden called Georgia’s new voting law an “atrocity.�...

Democrat Abrams navigates Georgia voting law battle with eye on 2022 Share Updated: 3:42 AM EDT Apr 19, 2021 BILL BARROW AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool, File In this Dec. 14, 2020, file photo Democrat Stacey Abrams, walks on Senate floor before of members of Georgia's Electoral College cast their votes at the state Capitol in Atlanta. SOURCE: AP Photo/John Bazemore, Pool, File TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 3:42 AM EDT Apr 19, 2021 BILL BARROW President Joe Biden called Georgia's new voting law an "...

Advertisement Yet Abrams has mostly avoided harsh individual criticism of Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, her 2018 Republican rival, whom she once dubbed an “architect of voter suppression.” She rarely mentions former President Trump, who falsely blames his defeat on voter fraud. And she’s pointedly not backed business boycotts of her home state or consumer boycotts of major firms based there, including Delta Air Lines and Coca-Cola. “I understand the notion of boycotts as a macro good,” she said, noting her upbringing as a Black woman in the Deep South and her parents’ voter-registratio...

Bill Barrow April 18, 2021 - 9:32 PM ATLANTA - President Joe Biden called Georgia's new voting law an “atrocity.” A leading Black bishop called for a national boycott of companies headquartered in the state. But when Stacey Abrams, the state’s well-known voting rights advocate, is asked about the law that has set much of her party on fire, she is critical but measured. “These are laws that respond to an increase in voting by people of colour,” Abrams told The Associated Press recently. But she discouraged boycotts and reassured Democrats th...

Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, left, shakes hands with a supporter as she leaves a rally, Monday, Nov. 5, 2018, in Rincon, Ga. (AP Photo/Stephen B. Morton) ATLANTA (AP) — President Joe Biden called Georgia’s new voting law an “atrocity.” A leading Black bishop called for a national boycott of companies headquartered in the state. But when Stacey Abrams, the state’s well-known voting rights advocate, is asked about the law that has set much of her party on fire, she is critical but measured. “These are laws that respond to an increase in voting by peopl...