Stacey Abrams news Conference 16 November 2018

Democrat Stacey Abrams ended her run for Georgia governor on Friday but she said she would not concede the contest to Republican Brian Kemp as state officials prepared to certify the election.Saying the law “allows no further viable remedy” for her bid for governor against Kemp, Abrams announced a new voting rights group that will file “major” litigation against the state over electoral issues.And she laced her speech with bruising critiques of Kemp, a former secretary of state who she said was “deliberate and intentional in his actions” to suppress the vote.“I will not concede,” she added, “because the erosion of our democracy is not right.”AJC