Atlanta Mayor on Abrams: ‘Suppression Is Real,’ ‘You’ll Clearly See that Georgia Is Blue Again’

‘But more importantly, we can’t stay home and we can’t rely on thin margins’

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BOTTOMS: "I think that we all have to make our own decisions. And I can’t begin to -- to speak for what her decision-making is. I know that she’ll do what she thinks is best for herself. But I think the reality is that suppression is real. But more importantly, we can’t stay home and we can’t rely on thin margins. We have to get more people registered to vote. We have to actually turn out more people to vote. Because when you rely on thin margins, then there is always going to be a question on -- on what could have happened, but we have to put the work in and people have to recognize that elections matter. When you look at the thin margin of the last presidential election, and you look at where our country is now, it matters. My race for mayor in Atlanta almost 100,000 votes cast, 832 votes made the difference. And so I think if we register, continue to register more people and turn out more people to vote, then I think that you’ll -- you'll clearly see that Georgia is blue again."

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