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Obama Rips Hecklers: Why Are The People Who Won The Last Election ‘So Mad All The Time?’
Rihanna Endorses Andrew Gillum In Florida Governor Race: 'Make History This Election’
Rihanna on Sunday threw her support behind An- drew Gillum, Florida’s Democratic nominee for gov- ernor, ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections.
The R&B icon called on voters to “make history” by electing Tallahassee’s mayor to the state’s governorship. If elected, Gillum would be the Sunshine State’s first black governor.
“FLORIDA: You have the opportunity to make history this election,” Rihanna wrote in posts shared to her
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Twitter and Instagram pages. She continued: “If you’re tired of feeling like you don’t matter in the political process, know the most important thing you can do in support- ing a candidate is finding someone who will take on critical issues such as: making minimum wage a livable wage, paying teachers what they’re worth, ensuring crim- inal justice reform, making healthcare a right, and repeal- ing Stand Your Ground. That’s a platform we MUST
support.”
For former president Barack Obama, it was a spontaneous response to a parade of hecklers — not a teleprompter remark that had been vetted for maximum ef- fect — but it still seemed to sum up the final weeks of a searing midterm election campaign characterized by incendiary rhetoric, politi- cally motivated package bombs and hate.
“Why is it that the folks that won the last election are so mad all the time?” Obama asked a crowd of 4,000 as the fifth interrupting protester was escorted out of a Miami rally on Friday. Any further shouts were drowned out by
the crowd’s roar.
Obama was using his star
power to drum up votes for Florida gubernatorial candi- date Andrew Gillum, U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson and other Democrats in the Sunshine State.
“It’s an interesting ques- tion,” he continued, turning around to address the people behind him. “I mean . . . when I won the presidency, at least my side felt pretty good. I don’t know why . . . it tells you something interesting, that even the folks who are in charge are still mad, because they’re getting ginned up to be mad.”
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Stacey Abrams Slams Brian Kemp’s ‘Desperate’ Hacking Claim Against Georgia Democrats
Stacey Abrams, Geor- gia’s Democratic nominee for governor, lashed out against Republican challenger Brian Kemp on Sunday over his of- fice’s 11th-hour claim that De- mocrats had attempted to hack into the state’s voter reg- istration system.
The office of Georgia’s sec- retary of state announced Sunday ― just two days before the midterm elections ― that it had opened an investigation a day earlier into the Demo- cratic Party of Georgia over an unspecified alleged cyber at- tack.
But Abrams brushed off the probe as Kemp’s “desper- ate attempt to turn the con- versation away from his failures” as Georgia’s secretary of state in the lead up to the gubernatorial election on Tuesday.
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“I’ve heard nothing about it,” Abrams told CNN’s “State Of The Union” when asked about the investigation. “My reaction would be that this is a desperate attempt on the part of my opponent to distract people from the fact that two different federal judges found him derelict in
his duties and forced him to allow absentee ballots to be counted and those who are being held captive by the exact match system be allowed to vote.”
She continued: “He is des- perate to turn the conversa- tion away from his failures, from his refusal to honor his commitments, and from the fact that he is part of a nation- wide system of voter suppres- sion that will not work in this election because we’re going to outwork him, we’re going to outvote him, and we are going to win.”
Kemp’s office said Sun- day that it had alerted the De- partment of Homeland Security and Federal Bureau of Investigation, but did not provide details about the al- leged hacking attempt in its press release.
Twitter Tributes Pour In On 10-Year Anniversary Of Barack Obama's Election: 'We Miss You!'
Ten years ago Sunday, Americans elected a young senator from Illinois named Barack Obama to be the 44th president of the United States.
The country’s first black president recalled the historic night of Nov. 4, 2008, in an Instagram post on the an- niversary.
“When more people get off the sidelines and decide to participate, our country be- comes a little more represen- tative of its people ― of everyone’s collective deci- sion,” Obama wrote. “And American politics can change as a result.
He continued: So on Elec- tion Day this Tuesday, I’m not just asking you to vote. I’m asking you to really show
up once again. Talk with your friends, convince some new voters, and get them out to vote because then something powerful happens. Change happens.”
The anniversary drew emotional tributes to Obama on Twitter, with many sup- porters echoing the former president’s call to vote in the midterm elections.
“10 years ago we elected @BarackObama as the 44th President,” one Twitter user wrote. “Our entire West Philly neighborhood flooded the streets to celebrate in the rain. The joy was unstop- pable. This is what happens #whenweallvote. This night changed my entire life. Please do your part Tuesday. Please.”
White HBCU Law Student Wishes She Could Take Credit For Pipe Bomb Sent To Obamas
*Damn, this heffa has got some hellacious nerve! We’re talking about a white student at a predominantly black col- lege in North Carolina who used a racial slur on social media and said she wishes she could take credit for the pipe bomb packages that were sent to the Obamas and Clintons last month.
Needless to say, the black students at North Carolina
Central University are be- yond pissed at law student Morgan Kendall and are calling for her to be expelled. Those students, who say they now fear for their safety, met Thursday with the dean of the law school, Elaine O’Neal, and campus police Chief Fred Hammett, WRAL-TV.
“I don’t feel safe. I don’t know what she’s capable of,
and I would like to see her ex- pelled immediately,” said Kayla Britt.
“I think she should be kicked out of law school,” said Jazemine McSween. “I just don’t think it’s fair that someone with those senti- ments to receive a degree from this school that was founded by the very people that she has disrespected multiple times.”
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