You're listening to Comedy Central. Stacey Aprils. Welcome back, Welcome back. Um, I mean this is this is strange because it's the fourth time that we were chatting. This is the first time I'm chatting in your neck of the woods. You know. Um, it's the final stage of the race. It's it's been a it's been a particularly interesting race. So let's let's start with this. I know what your profile in your
images in most parts of America. Coming to Georgia has been really interesting because every ad that I watch makes it seem like you are a very evil person. Well, um, my parents were surprised to learn that I was responsible for the kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby. I I know where half of his body is buried, and I may have stolen something backstage. So that wasn't gonna ad. But okay,
I'm gonna check that. You know, it feels ridiculous, It feels like people don't believe it feels but it really feels like the campaign against you has been particularly personal. It's been particularly vile. Part of standing for office is you know people are going to attack you. You You can either internalize the attacks or you can use this fuel to remind you of why you're doing this every single day. And these are real people with real lives. And yeah,
Brian Kemp wants to say vile things about me. My daddy's watching, and I'm gonna tell you you're in this race. You're trying to position yourself as as somebody who can move Georgia forward. One thing that has particularly overshadowed your campaign though, is how national politics has started to infect
you know, state level politics. So I would love to know how do you distinguish yourself as Stacy Abrams and and how do you speak to people you know from under the shadow of them saying Joe Biden, Because again, half of the ads are not about you, funny Enough, It's Joe Biden's economy, Joe Biden's inflation. Stacy Abrams is Joe Biden. And so when when you speak to people that's literally when one of the ads says says, the Abrams is Joe Biden. How do you get out from
under that? And what do you think people need to understand that does separate you, funny Enough from Joe Biden slashed the national agenda? Well, first of all, people remember who was in the office before Joe Biden, and they're very happy he's gone number two. The money that has kid of the broad US, the resources that have come to Georgia, the billions of dollars that have kept the state afloat, came because of federal Democrats, not because of
the current governor. Hard working Georgians did this and I remind them of that. But but it's also Brian Kemp banned abortion, he banned background checks, he banned children, he banned books, he banned the truth, and he intends to go further if he gets reelected. Or minding women that you do not have the right to control your bodies. Herschel Walker can do whatever he wants. Brian Kimp's good with that, but if you're a woman, he believes he
should control who you are. He made he fled at our streets with guns, and there is a story about gun violence every day in Georgia. And so part of it is just reminding people of this record. Well he's been governor for four years. I haven't you made sure of that? So if you're the governor, you don't get to take credit but not take responsibility. And that's that's that's how it is. It is going to be a
hotly contested race. You know, they're going to be stories coming out about pole stations that closed when they shouldn't have and people who are kicked out of lines and purging, etcetera, etcetera. What it creates is uh, a really paradoxical world where on the one hand, you want to call out, you know, election processes that aren't fair and make it as easy
as possible for people to vote. On the other hand, people will be quick to turn that on you and say, oh, but if Trump doesn't accept the election, then he's bad. But you also don't accept the election, so you're bad. How do you navigate that? And how do you speak to the issues around voting in Georgia without making it seem like you don't accept the democratic process. You've actually done a great job of this, but some of your
colleagues have been very easily duped into conflation. There is one thing to be used to winning everything you want and being told no and whining about it, inciting a surrection. That's what Brian, That's what Donald Trump did. Donald Trump denied the outcome of an election. I know I'm not governor, I haven't been governor for four whole years. I've been very clear about that. That's how I got to go on Star trek Um. But what I have always fought for and and it's I mean, you can go back.
I was on the March on Washington when I was nineteen, So this is I've got a pretty clear track record on this voting rights. Voting access is about who gets to show up election outcomes. That's up to the voters. But access is the responsibility of government. And Brian Kemp's greatest hits, Brian Kemp is the architect of voter suppression. And the reality is they try to stop us from talking about the access so they can gen up the
outcome they want. And what I will never stop talking about is the fact that no American, no Georgian, should be denied access that they are legally eligible. And there is no amount of cavett ching and blaming and conflation and false equivalence that will ever make me say that it is okay to tell a George and you don't have the right to be heard. That is not right, and it will not happen as long as I've got drapped.
As you said, the website is known the answers are pretty conclusive, and I see why you have the support that you do, Stay Savings. Thank you so much for joining on the show again. Appreciate the way The Daily Show with Trevor Noah ears editions. Subscribe to The Daily Show on YouTube for exclusive content, and stream full episodes anytime on Paramount Plus. This has been a Comedy Central podcast