PolitiFact says Stacey Abrams didn't support All-Star game boycott in Atlanta after defending boycotts on GA

Atlanta radio host Erick Erickson argued Abrams is not the candidate the media is hyping her up to be on 'Fox & Friends' ahead of the November election.

PolitiFact went to bat for Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams while fact-checking a claim that she supported the Major League Baseball's removal of its All-Star game out of Atlanta last year. 

Georgia was at the epicenter of a political firestorm over GOP-backed election reform legislation that was widely characterized by Democrats and the media as "Jim Crow 2.0" aiming to suppress the Black vote in the Peach State. This week's primaries showed record turnout, exceeding both 2018 and 2020. 

On Tuesday, PolitiFact challenged a tweet made by Georgia's Republican Attorney General Chris Carr, who blasted Abrams for saying, "I am tired of being told that we are the best state in the country to do business when we are the worst state in the country to live."

"Our state’s No.1 ranking for business has transformed hundreds of thousands of Georgians’ lives," Carr reacted on Sunday. "Just like when she supported the #MLB boycott, Stacey Abrams’ reckless & condescending comments continue to harm the state she claims to want to govern."

USA TODAY EDITS STACEY ABRAMS OP-ED PUBLISHED BEFORE MLB PULLED GAME IN ATLANTA, WATERS DOWN BOYCOTT SUPPORT

Stacey Abrams speaks onstage during the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Ripple of Hope Award Gala on Dec. 9, 2021, in New York City. (Slaven Vlasic/Getty Images)

"But there’s a problem with what Carr said in his tweet: Abrams did not support Major League Baseball’s boycott of Atlanta for its annual All-Star Game in 2021," PolitiFact senior correspondent Louis Jacobson pushed back. 

Jacobson pointed to remarks Abrams