Left-wing activist Stacey Abrams sits on the board of an organization that participated in exchanges with a top Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-linked propaganda group for more than a decade and has even co-authored reports as part of her role.
The organization in question is the Center for American Progress (CAP). Abrams has remarked that she was “honored to be joining the board of the Center for American Progress” because it “has been at the forefront of progressive policy development and activism for years.”
She also spoke at the group’s 2019 conference to outline “solutions to combat voter suppression efforts.”
“Abrams urged Americans to fight for progress through litigation that combats regressive laws and expands voting rights; legislation such as H.R. 1 that offers historic democracy and voting reforms; and advocacy that centers communities of color and the disadvantaged to bring new voices to the table to change the country’s trajectory,” CAP said of of her appearance.
But the CAP has been a repeated partner with the China-United States Exchange Foundation (CUSEF) for over a decade, working with the Chinese propaganda front on reports, sponsored trips to China, and other initiatives.
As The New American has previously reported, one of the ways in which CUSEF influences American policy is by sponsoring trips of U.S. politicians, journalists, and other prominent persons to go to China, where they wine and dine with key members of the communist regime.
CUSEF is part of China’s United Front, which the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission has described as an effort “to co-opt and neutralize sources of potential opposition to the policies and authority of its ruling Chinese Communist Party” and “influence overseas Chinese communities, foreign governments, and other actors to take actions or adopt positions supportive of Beijing’s preferred policies.”
The National Pulse notes:
CUSEF has also boasted on its website that through 2016 “expert delegations from CAP visited Beijing,” frequently under the leadership of [Clinton ally John] Podesta, CAP’s Chairman, to meet with Chinese Communist Party officials including military leaders. “This timely visit was particularly of great interest to many as the U.S, general election began to take off,” a summary noted.
Abrams is best known as the failed gubernatorial candidate of Georgia who, since losing her 2018 bid, became a leader in the “voting rights” movement, which means she opposes safeguards that would discourage election fraud.
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger initiated investigations into Abrams’ The New Georgia Project for seeking to “aggressively” register “ineligible, out-of-state, or deceased voters” before the January 5 runoff elections.
Raffensperger’s office made reference to one Fulton County resident who claimed to have received five postcards from The New Georgia Project soliciting a registration “for the same dead person,” along with a Cherokee County resident who received a voter registration solicitation from The New Georgia Project for his spouse who is ineligible to vote.
Still a third person, according to Raffensperger’s office, said The New Georgia Project sent a voter-registration solicitation to his daughter, who is not registered to vote in Georgia, while a fourth individual reportedly received a “package of postcards” at her home in New York City from The New Georgia Project encouraging people to register to vote in the Georgia Senate runoffs.
Prior to Election Day 2020, Abrams said publicly that it would be a “contentious” election and that counting would be “slow,” with “delays” in reporting.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, she stated:
Part of what I want people to understand is that it’s going to take time to have the answer to the November 3 election. The notion that we will know by 11:00 or midnight is not real. This is going to be a contentious election. We know that there will be delays in counting and there will be delays in reporting, and there will be litigation to challenge any results people don’t like. But the patience of this election is what I’m most concerned about — that people understand that “slow” does not mean “rigged.”
Events turned out precisely how she said they would. Election-night results indicated a victory for Donald Trump, but as some battleground states dragged on their counting for days, these numbers eventually went in favor of Joe Biden.
