"Hyperbolic moment": Stacey Abrams refuses to approve Eric Holder's controversial comment

Georgia, Democratic Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams, on Sunday refused to echo the controversial remark of former Attorney General Eric Holder, urging Democrats to adopt a more combative approach to politics, calling it & # 39; & quot; hyperbole & quot; and approving the vote as "best approach".

In several interviews, Abrams rejected Holder's view that Democrats should "give impetus" when Republicans "depreciate", re-stating Michelle Obama's slogan in 2016, "When they depreciate, we rise above. "

"I think there is a hyperbolic moment in every campaign," Abrams told "Meet the Press" on NBC News.

"Elections can be very difficult with hyperbole," she said in CNN's "State of the Union."

Holder, who said he was speaking figuratively, made the comment this month while he was campaigning for Abrams in McDonough, Georgia. The remark became a flashpoint before an election in which Republicans seek to galvanize their constituents by describing the Democrats as "angry mob."

Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), Like Abrams, refused to endorse Holder's point of view.

"I'm not a big proponent of rude or disruptive activities," Sanders told CNN, citing recent episodes in which liberal protesters had interrupted Republican leaders' meals at the restaurant. He called on people frustrated by the political order to help bring voters together in November.

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In another interview, Sanders described Republican ads as "crowds" of "very deceitful, very dishonest" Democrats.

"The problem is not quoting" mobs, "he said in ABC News's" This Week. " For me, the purpose of this whole election is to know if we can mobilize people for them to vote. "

Sanders declined to say when he could make a decision on his presidential candidacy in 2020 and, in response to a question about the dismissal of President Trump, said Democrats should focus on medium-term goals.

In an example of the GOP message, Senate candidate Josh Hawley (Missouri) in Missouri predicted that voters in his state would be galvanized by the "mob behavior" of Democrats during the recent confirmation process of the judge of the court. Supreme, Brett M. Kavanaugh, accused of sexual misconduct by several women.

"What the Democratic senators did in this case is a huge motivator for Missouri voters," Hawley told NBC. "They can not believe the conduct of these Democrats in the Senate. They can not believe. . . this crowd behavior that we see all over the country. It's motivating people. "

Hawley, who defies incumbent Senator Claire McCaskill (D), added that "the future of our country is at stake" in the medium term.

"You can see it in what we see on the street now," he said.

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Abrams, who is competing in a hotly contested race against Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, described his approach to the campaign as consistent and lucid.

"I did not blow things up, I did not shoot at people, I did not threaten to stop them in my truck," she said. CNN.

The comment was referring to Kemp's television ads in which he was showing a gun directed at a teenager with a romantic interest in one of his daughters, an explosion and a photo of him getting into a van "in case where I should gather illegal criminals. "

"I do not point shotguns at people in my ads to try to create histrionics," Abrams told NBC. Kemp is imposed on voters as a "politically incorrect conservative".

Abrams also criticized Kemp's and Republicans' efforts to crack down on presumed election fraud in Georgia, saying the "exact match" program disproportionately affected women and people of color.

"It's part of a behavior that is trying to tip the scales in his favor or in favor of his party," she said.

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