Oprah campaigns for Democrat candidate

Talk show host-producer-philanthropist Oprah Winfrey returned to the campaign trail for Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who is running for Governor of Georgia in the upcoming midterm polls, saying “all the noise”, “crazy talk” and “vitriol” was now part of political discourse. “You know what? They are designed to confuse and confound you with fear.

They are not designed for people with discernment,” she told a crowd on Thursday at the Cobb Civic Centre in Georgia, reports variety.com. Winfrey did not mention US President Donald Trump’s name or reference Abrams’ Republican opponent, Brian Kemp. But she called for woman to do the right thing. “Women, people.

We have discernment... When you can feel what is the right thing to do, you can’t be influenced by propaganda and fear,” she said. This was Winfrey’s first foray into midterm politics this year, after largely sitting out the 2016 presidential campaign. In January, when she gave a speech at the Golden Globe Awards, it ignited speculation that she too may be looking to run for president in 2020. At the event on Thursday, Winfrey again dismissed those prospects.

“I’m not here because I’m making some grandstand, I’m thinking about running myself,” Winfrey said. “I don’t want to run. I’m not trying to test any waters.” She touched on one of the major issues of the AbramsKemp campaign: voting rights. “I’m here today because of the men and because of the women who were lynched, who were humiliated, who were discriminated against, who were suppressed, who were repressed and oppressed. I refuse to let their sacrifices be in vain,” Winfrey said. Kemp, Georgia’s Secretary of State, has been challenged for his decision to freeze some 50,000 voter applications.