Claim: Clip shows voting rights exchange between Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams and incumbent Republican Governor Brian Kemp during the 2022 debate.
AP Rating: Wrong. Wrong label on the clip. The exchange took place during a debate when the two first met in 2018. Abrams and Kemp are poised to have a rematch for the governorship in November, with a debate expected later this fall.
Fact: A clip of the Oct. 23, 2018 TV debate garnered a lot of attention online this week ahead of Abrams and Kemp's upcoming rematch. However, some social media users have mischaracterized the footage since this year.
The clip shows Kemp accusing Abrams of pressuring people to vote illegally. "Why are you encouraging people to break the law for you in this election?" he asks her in the video.
Abrams denies "encouraging people who are legally ineligible to vote" to do so. She said in a legal challenge she filed against then-Georgian Secretary of State Kemp in 2016, a judge ruled that he illegally deleted more than 34,000 of her voter registrations. added.
“When I saw people being illegally denied the right to vote, I worked to hold you accountable,” she says.
"Yes! Stacey Abrams beat Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in today's debate. More than 11,000 retweets and she shared a quote from Wednesday's video that got more than 26,000 likes .
Others, including Abrams' 2022 her Twitter account for her campaign, also shared the clip on Thursday, but revealed it was filmed in 2018. The two have yet to debate each other in 2022, but have agreed to two televised debates ahead of the November election.
Kemp defeated Abrams by about 55,000 votes four years before him, turning the once simple Southern state into a battleground, he reported, The Associated Press. That narrow lead kicked off 2020 for him as Georgia narrowly endorsed President Joe Biden and elected two Democrats to the Senate, giving the party control of the Senate. With Democratic Senator Raphael Warnock trying to defend his seat in this year's midterm elections, Georgia will once again be key to Democrats.
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