Noah, Abrams Lament ‘Vile’ Assaults Whereas Spreading Conspiracy Theories

The final time Stacey Abrams was on Comedy Central’s The Each day Present with Trevor Noah, she in contrast herself Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Ukrainians combating for his or her freedom. Now with solely eight days till Election Day, she returned to affix the present’s namesake host in Atlanta on Monday to decry the “vile” assaults towards her whereas spreading election conspiracy theories and labeling Gov. Brian Kemp “the architect of voter suppression.”

Noah decried the destructive marketing campaign in direction of Abrams, “You already know, it feels ridiculous, it seems like individuals do not consider it nevertheless it actually feels like a marketing campaign towards you has been significantly private, it is been significantly vile.”

Naturally, Abrams agreed, “A part of standing for workplace is you recognize individuals will assault you. You possibly can both internalize the assaults or you should use it as gas to remind you of why you are doing this each single day. And these are actual individuals with actual lives. And, yeah, Brian Kemp desires to say vile issues about me.” 

Later within the interview, Noah went full conspiracy theorist, “It’s going to be a hotly contested race. They’re going to be tales popping out about ballot stations that shut once they should not have and other people kicked out of traces and purging, et cetera, et cetera.”

Nonetheless, Noah insisted that his conspiracy theories are totally different than Trump’s as a result of his are actual, however questioned how Abrams plans to take care of the accusation that they aren’t:

What it creates is a extremely paradoxical world the place, on the one hand, you wish to name out, you recognize, election processes that are not honest and make it as straightforward as potential for individuals to vote. Then again, individuals will be fast to show that on you and say, ‘oh, but when Trump does not settle for the election then he’s dangerous, however you additionally do not settle for the election so that you’re dangerous.’ 

How do you navigate that and the way do you converse to the problems round voting in Georgia with out making it appear to be you do not settle for the democratic course of? 

Abrams started her response by praising Noah, “You’ve truly completed a nice job of this however a few of your colleagues have been very simply duped into conflation. There may be one factor for use to profitable every thing you need and being informed no and whining about it and inciting revolt. That’s what Brian– that is what Donald Trump did. Donald Trump denied the result of an election.”

Opposite to Abrams’s claims, many within the media have made that excuse for her, as a result of they apparently consider election conspiracy theories are okay as long as they don’t finish in violence.

Abrams additionally claimed, “I do know I am not governor. I’ve not been governor for 4 complete years. I have been very clear about that.”

And Trump is aware of he’s not president, however he thinks he must be similar to Abrams thinks she must be governor.

After the sooner lamentations about “vile” assaults, Abrams launched right into a vile assault towards Kemp, “Voting rights, voting entry is about who will get to indicate up. 

Election outcomes, that’s as much as the voters, however entry is the accountability of presidency. And Brian Kemp’s best hits, Brian Kemp is the architect of voter suppression and the actuality is, they tried to cease us from speaking in regards to the entry so they will gin up the result they need.”

Little doubt the self-appointed guardians of disinformation will discover a handy solution to ignore this.

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Here’s a transcript for the October 31 present:

Comedy Central The Each day Present with Trevor Noah

10/31/2022

11:36 PM ET

TREVOR NOAH: You already know, it feels ridiculous, it seems like individuals do not consider it nevertheless it actually feels like a marketing campaign towards you has been significantly private, it is been significantly vile. 

STACEY ABRAMS: A part of standing for workplace is you recognize individuals will assault you. You possibly can both internalize the assaults or you should use it as gas to remind you of why you are doing this each single day. And these are actual individuals with actual lives. And, yeah, Brian Kemp desires to say vile issues about me. My daddy is watching and I am going to inform. 

…

NOAH: It’s going to be a hotly contested race. 

ABRAMS: Oh, sure.

NOAH: They’re going to be tales popping out about ballot stations that shut once they should not have and other people kicked out of traces and purging, et cetera, et cetera. What it creates is a extremely paradoxical world the place, on the one hand, you wish to name out, you recognize, election processes that are not honest and make it as straightforward as potential for individuals to vote. 

Then again, individuals will be fast to show that on you and say, “oh, but when Trump does not settle for the election then he’s dangerous, however you additionally do not settle for the election so that you’re dangerous.”

 How do you navigate that and the way do you converse to the problems round voting in Georgia with out making it appear to be you do not settle for the democratic course of? 

ABRAMS: You’ve truly completed a nice job of this however a few of your colleagues have been very simply duped into conflation. There may be one factor for use to profitable every thing you need and being informed no and whining about it and inciting revolt.

That’s what Brian– that is what Donald Trump did. Donald Trump denied the result of an election. I do know I am not governor. I’ve not been governor for 4 complete years. I have been very clear about that. That is how I received to go on Star Trek.

However what I’ve all the time fought for, and it is, I imply, you’ll be able to return, I used to be on the March on Washington when I used to be 19, so this– I’ve a fairly clear observe file on this. Voting rights, voting entry is about who will get to indicate up. 

Election outcomes, that’s as much as the voters, however entry is the accountability of presidency. And Brian Kemp’s best hits, Brian Kemp is the architect of voter suppression and the actuality is, they tried to cease us from speaking in regards to the entry so they will gin up the result they need.