The View Loves How Stacey Abrams 'Didn't Traditionally Concede'

Nicholas Fondacaro | September 14, 2022
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***The complete post is on NewsBusters***

If anyone with critical thinking skills was watching The View over the last few days, they would – like this writer – be suffering from massive whiplash as they bounced back and forth between praising election denialism to decrying it back to praising it again (depending on the party affiliation of the one speaking). Celebration was on the rebound Wednesday as the cackling coven welcomed longtime-election loss-denier Stacey Abrams, the Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Georgia.

First up to ask questions, Sunny Hostin mocked Republican Brian Kemp for his past debate performance (which didn’t matter because he became governor). She then praised Abrams for how she “didn't traditionally concede” to Kemp in 2018, adding that she “appreciated” it because Abrams “cited voter suppression.”

“I appreciate the question and the framing,” Abrams thanked her. She then fictitiously claimed: “I have never denied that I lost.”

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