Kemp had used a standard conservative “enemies list” to justify his office’s scorched-earth policy through the voter rolls. He claimed he was about defending the integrity of the vote against the “radical leftists,” “outside agitators,” and “criminal illegals” who were pouring into the state to take democracy away from its rightful owners. At a campaign rally where Donald Trump continued to stoke the baseless fears about “illegals” overrunning the state, Kemp had already tilled the ground with the lie that his opponent, Stacey Abrams, was encouraging “illegals”—documented and undocumented—to
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