“Yes we’ve seen a minor decline in the number of cases ... there will be spikes when more people are back in the environment,” Stacey Abrams says during #The19thLive
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In the first #The19thLive @staceyabrams says Georgia’s reopening ignores science re coronavirus transmission. “We’re not nearly at the place we need to be to safely reopen.”
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@staceyabrams is now telling#The19thLive about her work in rural Georgia related to the coronavirus pandemic, cites food insecurity and lack of Internet as challenges in the region. “More remains to be done.”Show this thread -
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@staceyabrams tells#The19thLive that she anticipated that based on her 2018 voter suppression experience “something catastrophic” would happen in 2020 but she didn’t expect a pandemic.Show this thread -
“We know there are gold standards for how we can vote by mail in 2020 those gold standards are not hard,”
@staceyabrams tells#The19thLive saying postage should be paid on ballots and there needs to be federal action. Communities should be able to collect ballots.Show this thread -
“There’s deep concerns about whether people have access to the stamps they need,”
@staceyabrams tells#The19thLive of Georgia’s June primary election.Show this thread -
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@staceyabrams says Ahmaud Arbery case is about “vigilantes” and about men who “thought they had a right to take a man’s life due to a hunch” and what happened after was “deeply concerning” when 2 DAs did not take action#The19thLiveShow this thread -
Says such violence is a ballot box issue. DAs are elected. You must be registered to vote in GA to serve on juries. Says people must hold elected officials such as those in Arbery case accountable.
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“He has my full support,”
@staceyabrams says of Biden. She is presumed to be on his list of potential VPs.#The19thLiveShow this thread -
“I’ve been getting this question for 14 months,”
@staceyabrams says of veepstakes chatter#The19thLive. Says she’s given the same unequivocal answer the entire time even before we knew the presumptive Democratic nominee.Show this thread -
Abrams says she may not be allowed to come home for the next family holiday if she doesn’t turn back to her romance novel series and write the next installment.
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^^check out this chaining
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