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Repost: Stumping for Abrams, Oprah makes impassioned plea for turnout
Washington (CNN)Oprah Winfrey delivered an impassioned call to voters Thursday in a fiery stump speech in support of Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams.
"For anybody here who has an ancestor who didn't have the right to vote, and you are choosing not to vote -- wherever you are in this state, in this country -- you are dishonoring your family," Winfrey said in Marietta, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb. "You are disrespecting and disregarding their legacy, their suffering and their dreams, when you don't vote."
The hotly contested Georgia governor's race has garnered national attention and is currently neck and neck. Abrams is running against Republican nominee Brian Kemp.
Kemp -- who, as Georgia secretary of state, is also in charge of elections and voter registration -- faced backlash after it was reported his office had put more than 53,000 voter applications on hold, nearly 70% of which are from African-Americans, because they failed to clear the state's controversial "exact match" standard. Kemp has since said the 53,000 Georgians would be able to vote in November.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/01/politics/oprah-stacey-abrams-call-to-vote/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2018-11-01T17:40:52
"For anybody here who has an ancestor who didn't have the right to vote, and you are choosing not to vote -- wherever you are in this state, in this country -- you are dishonoring your family," Winfrey said in Marietta, Georgia, an Atlanta suburb. "You are disrespecting and disregarding their legacy, their suffering and their dreams, when you don't vote."
The hotly contested Georgia governor's race has garnered national attention and is currently neck and neck. Abrams is running against Republican nominee Brian Kemp.
Kemp -- who, as Georgia secretary of state, is also in charge of elections and voter registration -- faced backlash after it was reported his office had put more than 53,000 voter applications on hold, nearly 70% of which are from African-Americans, because they failed to clear the state's controversial "exact match" standard. Kemp has since said the 53,000 Georgians would be able to vote in November.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/01/politics/oprah-stacey-abrams-call-to-vote/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twCNN&utm_content=2018-11-01T17:40:52
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