Stacey Abrams ends his battle for the governor of Georgia with harsh words for his rival

"We are at least a pink state, if not a purple state," said Charles S. Bullock III, professor of political science at the University of Georgia. "Part of that is the demographic shift that the Democrats were counting on."

According to Professor Bullock, by the end of the 1990s, whites in Georgia had about three-quarters of the votes of the state. In 2016, this figure has fallen to almost 60%. And he said that he would not be surprised if the white vote in this year's vote was even lower.

Ms. Abrams, while acknowledging Friday that she could not win, did not concede either.

"More than 200 years after the beginning of Georgia's democratic experience, the state has failed its voters," Abrams said, her voice alternating between anguish, contempt, frustration and outrage, claiming that effect on the process election in Georgia ".

Nevertheless, it was the closest race for the governor in Georgia since 1966. Mrs. Abrams was less than 18,000 votes to have forced a second round, and about 55,000 victory votes, in an election which has collected nearly four million votes.

"Let's be clear: this is not a concession speech, because giving up means recognizing that action is right, true or just," Abrams said in a frantic attack on Mr. Kemp as chief regulator of elections in the state and at the polling process in Georgia. "As a woman of conscience and faith, I can not admit it."

When Abrams ended her campaign, she returned to a recurrent theme: the fact that Mr Kemp, Georgian state secretary until Thursday after the elections, used his post to suppress the vote and make it easier for him. governor's house.