CNN Leaves Stacey Abrams off List of Election Deniers, Includes Ron DeSantis
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Photo of Stacey Abrams by Gage Skidmore
CNN is keeping track of their “election deniers,” so voters can know exactly who the threats to democracy are. There is, however, one major problem: the most notorious election denier is not on the list. Stacey Abrams, who denied losing her election to Georgia Governor Brian Kemp, was conveniently left off CNN’s list, particularly because they’re only focusing on the 2020 election. Even more conveniently, their list is extraordinarily broad. They’re looking at Republican candidates who “have tried to overturn, rejected, questioned or declined to affirm the 2020 results.”
Kari Lake, who is running for governor in Arizona on the Republican ticket, might be an easy pick, but does including Florida’s Governor, Ron DeSantis make sense to CNN? They also have Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota, who did question errors in Michigan and dead voters (which happened), but she attended President Joe Biden’s inauguration and even congratulated him. Even adding Michigan Republican candidate Tudor Dixon is a stretch. Though she has questioned the results of the 2020 election, her approach has been far softer than other Republican hopefuls. At the Macomb primary debate, Dixon kept her talking points focused on outside dollars—like from Mark Zuckerburg—pouring into Michigan (for example, a non-profit organization founded by Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson), improper procedures from Benson, and Time Magazine’s article highlighting there was a shadow campaign that altered the fate of the 2020 election.
Not only did Stacey Abrams repeatedly make claims that the 2018 election was stolen from her, but media pundits also continued to entertain and uplift her. Out of all the possible Democrats, Abrams was selected to deliver the rebuttal to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union Address in 2019. She graced the cover of magazines and visited talk shows. Abrams even made an appearance on Star Trek as the president of earth.
As Kari Lake notes every time the media comes at her for questioning the election, she reminds them that is her right and of their blatant hypocrisy. In one of her recent interviews, she whipped out a packet of information on election denials from the likes of Hillary Clinton and White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
It’s purely political for CNN fact-checkers to solely obsess with 2020 when Democrats have such a long history of not accepting election results. But their piece does highlight something very significant. Being dubbed as an “election denier” by CNN doesn’t mean you won’t be a very successful or popular governor. If Kari Lake, Doug Mastriano (Pennsylvania), or Tudor Dixon can be the next Ron DeSantis, their futures are looking bright. After all, voters care about economics, being able to protect their children from indoctrination, getting education back to the basics, high crime, and not being bullied by tyrannical anti-science policies that cripple the country.
A New York Timeas/Sienna College poll reported, “more than a third of independent voters and a smaller but noteworthy contingent of Democrats said they were open to supporting candidates who reject the legitimacy of the 2020 election, as they assigned greater urgency to their concerns about the economy than to fears about the fate of the country’s political system.”
Democrats have been banking on January 6 to carry them to the finish line on election night, but there isn’t enough gas in the tank…because Americans literally can’t afford gas.
