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Stacey Abrams: “There is a cohort that has never wanted the Voting Rights…”

Featuring: Stacey Abrams, Democratic | Former Candidate, Governor of Georgia

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Stacey Abrams on How the GOP is ERASING Black Voters

Published | Video Starts at 02:44

You have been fighting against voter suppression for decades. Did you See this coming. Yes, we know what they've been intending to do for 60 years. There is a cohort that has never wanted the Voting Rights act because it diluted their power, particularly in the South. And that faction has joined with the authoritarian regime that understands that the only way to seize political power and to hold dominion in the United States is to fracture and suppress the pluralistic part of our pluralistic democracy. (02:44–02:54)

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Asserts that some groups have opposed the Voting Rights Act because it diluted their power.

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