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Stacey Abrams said Monday on MSNBC that President-elect Donald Trump’s victory did not signal a “seismic shift.”
“We keep getting it wrong about what happened in November. Yes, Donald Trump won the election, but it wasn’t convincing,” Abrams told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes.
“It was an evenly divided nation. He got more people, but it wasn’t the seismic shift where 57, 58 percent of America said no,” the twice-failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate said.
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US President-elect Donald Trump smiles during Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest at the Phoenix Convention Center on December 22, 2024. in Phoenix, Arizona. (Rebecca Noble/Getty Images)
Shortly after winning both the popular vote and the Electoral College, Trump promised to lead “America’s Golden Age” after launching “the greatest political movement of all time.”
The new commander-in-chief’s second presidential victory resulted in the victory of all the battleground states, as well as Republican majorities in the House and Senate. In addition, Trump increased his share of the vote across the country, starting in conservative districts but expanding to deeply Democratic states.
Vice President Kamala Harris congratulated Trump by phone the next morning and later delivered her concession speech at her alma mater, Howard University.
Many see this feat as a mandate from the American people, who are fed up with economic problems, the border crisis and a broken immigration system.
However, Abrams said, “It was less than 50 percent of the electorate that said this is what we want.”
According to the Associated Press, Trump won 49.9% of the vote in the country.
Stacey Abrams told MSNBC that President-elect Donald Trump’s victory did not signal a “seismic shift.” (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin; Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
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During the interview, Abrams also reflected on the legacy of the late President Jimmy Carter, discussing “decency” in politics. She urged Democrats to “broaden the scope of decency” to get more people into the party.
“I think decency is a choice. It’s a hard choice, but if you look at it authentically, it builds confidence and morale. It can’t be a one-size-fits-all proposition, and I think we’ve seen, unfortunately, with President Carter, when decency opposes shame — shame has the upper hand, because he is willing to do what decency does not want decency to give up.’
She went on to say, “Our responsibility is for decency to show those who stayed home, those who stayed silent, that there is a place for decency and a place for them,” she told Hayes. “That’s the work that needs to be done next.”
Abrams, a Democrat, made headlines after the rejection to concede in the 2018 gubernatorial election to Republican Brian Kemp, losing by 60,000 votes. In 2019, Abrams said “we won” despite the final tally and Kemp’s inauguration, though she has since maintained that she accepted the 2018 results.
She also suggested that Kemp, as Georgia’s secretary of state, adopted a policy of voter suppression.
Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams speaks during an overnight campaign rally in Atlanta, Georgia, Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022. Abrams lost to Gov. Brian Kemp on Tuesday in a rematch of their 2018 race, according to the Associated Press. (Dustin Chambers/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Abrams ran for re-election the governor of Georgia and lost on November 8, 2022. Abrams, despite the fact that she never officially admitted her defeat to Kemp, was declared a symbol of electoral reform.
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Fox News’ Paul Steinhauser contributed to this report.
