Republican redistricting effort is ‘evil incarnate’, Stacey Abrams tells new Guardian podcast

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has slammed Republican-led states’ efforts to redraw their congressional maps to favor their party as “evil incarnate”. In an interview with the Guardian’s new podcast, Stateside with Kai and Carter , Abrams argued that what she said amounted to intentional “cheating” to suppress racial minority voting power must be fought in the courts and on the ballot. “We’ve got to point out that they are not just rigging the game,” she said. …