Abrams on GOP efforts to target voting: 'It is a redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie'

Stacey Abrams on Sunday lambasted efforts by Republicans to restrict voting rights in Georgia, calling it "racist" and "a redux of Jim Crow in a suit and tie."

"We know that the only thing that precipitated these charges -- it's not that there was a question of security. In fact, the secretary and the governor went to great pains to assure America that Georgia elections were secure," the Georgia Democrat told CNN's Jake Tapper on "State of the Union." "And so the only connection that we can find is that more people of color voted and it changed the outcome of elections in the direction Republicans do not like." Republican-controlled legislatures in several states have recently pushed bills that would restrict voting rights, an effort in response to former President Donald Trump's false claims of widespread fraud in the 2020 election. The Georgia Senate passed a sweeping voting rights bill Monday that if signed into law would repeal no-excuse absentee voting for many Georgians -- a method 1.3 million residents used to cast ballots in the November general election.