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Stacey Abrams: “We have never in this country had an actual explicit right…”

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

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Stacey Abrams on why the gutting of the Voting Rights Act is 'evil'

Published | Video Starts at 21:41

Because what the 15th amendment said was that you could not prohibit the right to vote based on race. We have never in this country had an actual explicit right to vote. People don't know that. Every time I say that to somebody, people are shocked. We do not have an affirmative right to vote in the United States. (21:41–21:46)

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Asserts that the United States has never had an explicit right to vote in its Constitution.

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