Posted November 19, 2018 5:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

Stacey Abrams has finally abandoned her efforts to snatch the election for governor of Georgia from Brian Kemp. She had all the advantages one could want, but she still came up short.

That was followed by a campaign of legal action designed to try and bully the state into declaring her the winner, complete with claims of racism and voter suppression, all without any actual evidence of wrongdoing.

Now that it’s over, though, Governor-Elect Kemp is promising, among other things, to push for expanding gun rights in the Peach State.

Republican Brian Kemp won the closest Georgia race for governor in more than 50 years, defeating Democrat Stacey Abrams by a narrow margin after a post-election battle that lasted until the last ballots trickled into county officials more than a week after the vote.

His victory capped a divisive race against Abrams that hinged on his relentless appeals to supporters of Donald Trump with promises to expand gun rights, cut taxes and defend the president even as he assailed the Democrat as an “extremist outsider” who would force Georgia toward socialism.

Abrams faced relentless attempts by Kemp to paint her as a “radical extremist” who was a puppet of out-of-state interests because most …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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