Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Stacey Aprils. Welcome back, Welcome back. Um,
Speaker 1: I mean this is this is strange because it's the
Speaker 1: fourth time that we were chatting. This is the first
Speaker 1: time I'm chatting in your neck of the woods. You know. Um,
Speaker 1: it's the final stage of the race. It's it's been
Speaker 1: a it's been a particularly interesting race. So let's let's
Speaker 1: start with this. I know what your profile in your
Speaker 1: images in most parts of America. Coming to Georgia has
Speaker 1: been really interesting because every ad that I watch makes
Speaker 1: it seem like you are a very evil person. Well, um,
Speaker 1: my parents were surprised to learn that I was responsible
Speaker 1: for the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. I I know
Speaker 1: where half of his body is buried, and I may
Speaker 1: have stolen something backstage. So that wasn't gonna ad. But okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna check that. You know, it feels ridiculous, It
Speaker 1: feels like people don't believe it feels but it really
Speaker 1: feels like the campaign against you has been particularly personal.
Speaker 1: It's been particularly vile. Part of standing for office is
Speaker 1: you know people are going to attack you. You You can
Speaker 1: either internalize the attacks or you can use this fuel
Speaker 1: to remind you of why you're doing this every single day.
Speaker 1: And these are real people with real lives. And yeah,
Speaker 1: Brian Kemp wants to say vile things about me. My
Speaker 1: daddy's watching, and I'm gonna tell you you're in this race.
Speaker 1: You're trying to position yourself as as somebody who can
Speaker 1: move Georgia forward. One thing that has particularly overshadowed your
Speaker 1: campaign though, is how national politics has started to infect
Speaker 1: you know, state level politics. So I would love to
Speaker 1: know how do you distinguish yourself as Stacy Abrams and
Speaker 1: and how do you speak to people you know from
Speaker 1: under the shadow of them saying Joe Biden, Because again,
Speaker 1: half of the ads are not about you, funny Enough,
Speaker 1: It's Joe Biden's economy, Joe Biden's inflation. Stacy Abrams is
Speaker 1: Joe Biden. And so when when you speak to people
Speaker 1: that's literally when one of the ads says says, the
Speaker 1: Abrams is Joe Biden. How do you get out from
Speaker 1: under that? And what do you think people need to
Speaker 1: understand that does separate you, funny Enough from Joe Biden
Speaker 1: slashed the national agenda? Well, first of all, people remember
Speaker 1: who was in the office before Joe Biden, and they're
Speaker 1: very happy he's gone number two. The money that has
Speaker 1: kid of the broad US, the resources that have come
Speaker 1: to Georgia, the billions of dollars that have kept the
Speaker 1: state afloat, came because of federal Democrats, not because of
Speaker 1: the current governor. Hard working Georgians did this and I
Speaker 1: remind them of that. But but it's also Brian Kemp
Speaker 1: banned abortion, he banned background checks, he banned children, he
Speaker 1: banned books, he banned the truth, and he intends to
Speaker 1: go further if he gets reelected. Or minding women that
Speaker 1: you do not have the right to control your bodies.
Speaker 1: Herschel Walker can do whatever he wants. Brian Kimp's good
Speaker 1: with that, but if you're a woman, he believes he
Speaker 1: should control who you are. He made he fled at
Speaker 1: our streets with guns, and there is a story about
Speaker 1: gun violence every day in Georgia. And so part of
Speaker 1: it is just reminding people of this record. Well he's
Speaker 1: been governor for four years. I haven't you made sure
Speaker 1: of that? So if you're the governor, you don't get
Speaker 1: to take credit but not take responsibility. And that's that's
Speaker 1: that's how it is. It is going to be a
Speaker 1: hotly contested race. You know, they're going to be stories
Speaker 1: coming out about pole stations that closed when they shouldn't
Speaker 1: have and people who are kicked out of lines and purging, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 1: What it creates is uh, a really paradoxical world where
Speaker 1: on the one hand, you want to call out, you know,
Speaker 1: election processes that aren't fair and make it as easy
Speaker 1: as possible for people to vote. On the other hand,
Speaker 1: people will be quick to turn that on you and say, oh,
Speaker 1: but if Trump doesn't accept the election, then he's bad.
Speaker 1: But you also don't accept the election, so you're bad.
Speaker 1: How do you navigate that? And how do you speak
Speaker 1: to the issues around voting in Georgia without making it
Speaker 1: seem like you don't accept the democratic process. You've actually
Speaker 1: done a great job of this, but some of your
Speaker 1: colleagues have been very easily duped into conflation. There is
Speaker 1: one thing to be used to winning everything you want
Speaker 1: and being told no and whining about it, inciting a surrection.
Speaker 1: That's what Brian, That's what Donald Trump did. Donald Trump
Speaker 1: denied the outcome of an election. I know I'm not governor,
Speaker 1: I haven't been governor for four whole years. I've been
Speaker 1: very clear about that. That's how I got to go
Speaker 1: on Star trek Um. But what I have always fought
Speaker 1: for and and it's I mean, you can go back.
Speaker 1: I was on the March on Washington when I was nineteen,
Speaker 1: So this is I've got a pretty clear track record
Speaker 1: on this voting rights. Voting access is about who gets
Speaker 1: to show up election outcomes. That's up to the voters.
Speaker 1: But access is the responsibility of government. And Brian Kemp's
Speaker 1: greatest hits, Brian Kemp is the architect of voter suppression.
Speaker 1: And the reality is they try to stop us from
Speaker 1: talking about the access so they can gen up the
Speaker 1: outcome they want. And what I will never stop talking
Speaker 1: about is the fact that no American, no Georgian, should
Speaker 1: be denied access that they are legally eligible. And there
Speaker 1: is no amount of cavett ching and blaming and conflation
Speaker 1: and false equivalence that will ever make me say that
Speaker 1: it is okay to tell a George and you don't
Speaker 1: have the right to be heard. That is not right,
Speaker 1: and it will not happen as long as I've got drapped.
Speaker 1: As you said, the website is known the answers are
Speaker 1: pretty conclusive, and I see why you have the support
Speaker 1: that you do, Stay Savings. Thank you so much for
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