The Republican Governor’s Association (RGA) didn’t waste any time in using former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s controversial overseas comments earlier in the week about why she lost the presidential election.
"If you look at the map of the United States, there’s all that red in the middle where Trump won,” Clinton said during a visit to India. “I win the coasts, I win Illinois, Minnesota, places like that. But what the map doesn’t show you is that I won the places that represent 2/3rds of America’s gross domestic product.
"I won the places that are optimistic, diverse, dynamic, moving-forward, and his whole campaign Make America Great Again was looking backwards," Clinton said. "You know, you didn’t like black people getting rights, you don’t like women getting jobs, you don’t want to see that Indian-American succeeding more than you are. Whatever your problem is, I’m going to solve it.”
Abrams, according to the RGA, “was one of Clinton’s top surrogates in Georgia during the election, giving multiple interviews in support of her and even speaking at the Democrat National Convention on her behalf.
“Evans was also an ardent Clinton supporter,” the RGA said, “joining the “Hillary for Georgia Leadership Council.”
Trump defeated Clinton in Georgia by five percentage points.
Abrams herself is speaking to the Young Democrats of Georgia on Saturday, March 17, in Marietta.
► Also, Buzzfeed.com is reporting new Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms is expected to endorse Stacey Evans in her bid for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. Evans and Abrams, herself also a former state lawmaker and former House minority leader, are both running for the Democratic nomination.
