Stacey Abrams' Embarrassing Weekend

Chris Queen

It must be tough to be part of Stacey Abrams’ campaign. For starters, the governorcandidate has bought into every bit of the fawning press the mainstream media has generated for her. Secondly, she seems completely blind to the political realities that not everybody loves her like the left does — especially in Georgia.

Last but not least, she continues to put herself in a position that makes it too easy for Gov. Brian Kemp and his team to not just attack her, but also to make fun of her. This weekend is a prime example of why Stacey Abrams has become such an embarrassing candidate.

On Saturday, Abrams went to Athens, Ga., to hold a campaign rally and speak to people downtown. On Saturdays in the fall, Athens can be a hopping town, with tailgating all over the place. The weekend before last, Kemp and other GOP candidates tailgated and hobnobbed with faithful Georgia Bulldogs fans.

This year, with the Georgia Bulldogs at the top of the polls and looking unstoppable, Athens is the center of the college football universe, at least when theBulldogs are playing at home. On Saturday, the Dawgs were in Columbia, S.C., to take on the University of South Carolina.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Not everybody comes to Athens for football. Also, Athens is a reliably left-wing town. (And, to be fair, it’s a heck of a lot easier to find parking when there aren’t as many tailgaters around.)

But if you’re looking to reach voters who may not have made up their minds who to vote for, rather than just preaching to the faithful, it seems like you’d be better off showing up when the team and its faithful are at home, rather than away.

As Erick Erickson puts it, “You just don’t do that. And yet she did, without much of a crowd.”

And notice she’s wearing blue. Sure, that’s the official color of leftism, but you’d think she would show up in a college town wearing the school’s red and black. After all, she pretends to be a UGA fan.

So there’s one embarrassing moment. But wait: there’s more.

“Planet Stacey. Boldly going where California and New York have gone before.” It’s a brilliant ad with its digs at both Abrams’ geekery (apologies to my Star Trek-fan friends, but she seems obsessed) as well as how beholden she is to influences and donations from far outside the Peach State.

As of July, only 14% of Abrams’ campaign money has come from within the state of Georgia. By contrast, around the same time, Kemp’s fundraising was nearly a mirror image, with 83% of his fundraising coming from instate. On top of that, Abrams’ values and campaign promises match those of the coastal elites far more than those of most Georgians.

And polling bears out that reality. As of this writing, the RealClearPolitics average has Kemp up 5.3 points over Abrams, which has been consistent. It’s a totally different story from 2018 when Kemp and Abrams ran a tight race against each other.

Erickson points out that “no poll this year has had Kemp behind Abrams and most have him ahead by more than five. Four years ago, the polls were split 50/50 over who was winning.”

Keep it up, Stacey. Maybe once you’ve lost, you’ll have a full-time job as part of the cast of Star Trek.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/09/19/stacey-abrams-embarrassing-weekend-n1630464

Stacey Abrams' Embarrassing Weekend

Chris Queen

It must be tough to be part of Stacey Abrams’ campaign. For starters, the governorcandidate has bought into every bit of the fawning press the mainstream media has generated for her. Secondly, she seems completely blind to the political realities that not everybody loves her like the left does — especially in Georgia.

Last but not least, she continues to put herself in a position that makes it too easy for Gov. Brian Kemp and his team to not just attack her, but also to make fun of her. This weekend is a prime example of why Stacey Abrams has become such an embarrassing candidate.

On Saturday, Abrams went to Athens, Ga., to hold a campaign rally and speak to people downtown. On Saturdays in the fall, Athens can be a hopping town, with tailgating all over the place. The weekend before last, Kemp and other GOP candidates tailgated and hobnobbed with faithful Georgia Bulldogs fans.

This year, with the Georgia Bulldogs at the top of the polls and looking unstoppable, Athens is the center of the college football universe, at least when theBulldogs are playing at home. On Saturday, the Dawgs were in Columbia, S.C., to take on the University of South Carolina.

Yeah, yeah, I know. Not everybody comes to Athens for football. Also, Athens is a reliably left-wing town. (And, to be fair, it’s a heck of a lot easier to find parking when there aren’t as many tailgaters around.)

But if you’re looking to reach voters who may not have made up their minds who to vote for, rather than just preaching to the faithful, it seems like you’d be better off showing up when the team and its faithful are at home, rather than away.

As Erick Erickson puts it, “You just don’t do that. And yet she did, without much of a crowd.”

And notice she’s wearing blue. Sure, that’s the official color of leftism, but you’d think she would show up in a college town wearing the school’s red and black. After all, she pretends to be a UGA fan.

So there’s one embarrassing moment. But wait: there’s more.

“Planet Stacey. Boldly going where California and New York have gone before.” It’s a brilliant ad with its digs at both Abrams’ geekery (apologies to my Star Trek-fan friends, but she seems obsessed) as well as how beholden she is to influences and donations from far outside the Peach State.

As of July, only 14% of Abrams’ campaign money has come from within the state of Georgia. By contrast, around the same time, Kemp’s fundraising was nearly a mirror image, with 83% of his fundraising coming from instate. On top of that, Abrams’ values and campaign promises match those of the coastal elites far more than those of most Georgians.

And polling bears out that reality. As of this writing, the RealClearPolitics average has Kemp up 5.3 points over Abrams, which has been consistent. It’s a totally different story from 2018 when Kemp and Abrams ran a tight race against each other.

Erickson points out that “no poll this year has had Kemp behind Abrams and most have him ahead by more than five. Four years ago, the polls were split 50/50 over who was winning.”

Keep it up, Stacey. Maybe once you’ve lost, you’ll have a full-time job as part of the cast of Star Trek.

https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/chris-queen/2022/09/19/stacey-abrams-embarrassing-weekend-n1630464

FACT CHECK: CBS Claims Congress Found ‘No Wrongdoing’ by Joe Biden in Hunter Biden Investigation

Joel B. Pollak19 Sep 2022

CLAIM: “A Republican investigation … uncovered no wrongdoing by then-Vice President Biden” regarding Hunter Biden.

VERDICT: MOSTLY FALSE. That investigation found Joe Biden had conflicts of interest and likely misled the public.

President Joe Biden sat down Sunday with CBS News’ Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes for his first media interview since the Super Bowl in February. He again denied any wrongdoing by his son, saying nothing Hunter Biden had done affected him or the country. That claim is very much in doubt, but Pelley appeared to lend weight to it by claiming, erroneously: “Congress investigated Hunter Biden’s job with a Ukrainian company at the time that his father ran Ukrainian policy in the Obama administration. A Republican investigation, however, uncovered no wrongdoing by then-Vice President Biden.”

That is not what the investigation by the Republican-led committees on homeland security and finance found in their report.

The report detailed many conflicts of interest involving then-Vice President Biden and members of his family, including Hunter Biden. Concerns about those conflicts of interest were raised within the Obama administration but went nowhere once those questions reached the vice president’s office. Conflicts involving Hunter Biden went far beyond Ukraine and included Russia and China, among other countries implicated in Hunter Biden’s business dealings while his father was in office.

It was true that the committee could not find that Joe Biden broke the law — because the law exempted the president and vice president. It found, however, that Biden had violated the basic understanding that politicians would not abuse their positions:

Although [Office of Government Ethics] authority to investigate and recommend solutions to most employees for conflicts of interest issues is well-established, Congress did not extend this authority to the president and vice president in OGE’s establishment statute. This does not mean there is an absence of any authority to hold the President and Vice President accountable for conflict of interest issues; rather, it demonstrates that the responsibility for holding the President and Vice President responsible for conduct that implicates conflicts of interest lies elsewhere, namely, with Congress and the American people…

Hunter Biden’s role on Burisma’s board hindered the efforts of dedicated career-service individuals who were fighting for anticorruption measures in Ukraine. Because the vice president’s son had a direct link to a corrupt company and its owner, State Department officials were required to maintain situational awareness of Hunter Biden’s association with Burisma. Unfortunately, U.S. officials had no other choice but to endure the “awkward[ness]” of continuing to push an anticorruption agenda in Ukraine while the vice president’s son sat on the board of a Ukrainian company with a corrupt owner, earning tens of thousands of dollars a month.

The report also noted that Democrats on the two committees falsely accused Republicans of pursuing a “Russian disinformation” campaign by investigating Hunter Biden and the conflicts of interest he created for his father.

Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), who led the investigation, suggested that it provided strong evidence that Joe Biden had lied to the public when he said, repeatedly, that he had not discussed any of his family’s overseas business dealings with them.

Demcorats, of course, dismissed the findings of the report, and the media largely followed their narrative, as they usually do. But the investigation did not find “no wrongdoing” by then-Vice President Biden; it found plenty of unethical behavior.

Moreover, the investigation was concluded just weeks before Hunter Biden’s laptop was revealed to the public by the New York Post. The laptop contained evidence that Hunter Biden had arranged meetings between his Ukrainian colleagues and his father, contradicting Joe Biden’s denials that he had ever discussed his son’s business dealings. It also included evidence that Biden was personally involved in one of Hunter Biden’s Chinese ventures in the years after Joe Biden left public office.

The FBI had possession of the laptop since December 2019, but it was not made available to congressional investigators.

So while it is true that the investigation did not find that Joe Biden had broken the law, it found ample evidence that he had conflicts of interest relating to Hunter Biden; that these conflicts were ignored; and that Biden had likely lied to the public.

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/09/19/fact-check-hunter-biden-joe-cbs-news-60-minutes/