{"id":6855,"date":"2018-11-16T17:21:39","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T22:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=6855"},"modified":"2018-12-14T20:45:32","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T01:45:32","slug":"abrams-acknowledges-kemp-victory-but-doesnt-concede","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/?p=6855","title":{"rendered":"Abrams acknowledges Kemp victory but doesn&#8217;t concede"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Stacey Abrams has ended her campaign and her legal efforts to challenge the election results.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, Abrams refused to concede on moral grounds. &#8220;I acknowledge that former secretary of state Brian Kemp will be certified as the victor in the 2018 gubernatorial election&#8230; Let&#8217;s be clear. This is not a speech of concession. Because concession means to acknowledge that an action is right, true or proper. As a woman of conscience and faith I cannot concede that. But my assessment is the law currently allows no further viable remedy.&#8221; Abrams said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abrams addressed voters for the first time since Election Night at a 5 p.m. press conference Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the speech she announced the creation of Fair Fight Georgia, an organization that will be devoted to reforming what Abrams calls Georgia&#8217;s &#8220;system of suppression,&#8221; vowing to file a massive lawsuit seeking to reform what she calls the &#8220;gross mismanagement&#8221; of the 2018 gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacey Abrams has ended her campaign and her legal efforts to challenge the election results. However, Abrams refused to concede on moral grounds. &#8220;I acknowledge that former secretary of state Brian Kemp will be certified as the victor in the 2018 gubernatorial election&#8230; Let&#8217;s be clear. This is not a speech of concession. Because concession [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegeorgiasun.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}