‘The View’ Blasts Stacey Abrams’ ‘Lame Excuse’ for Maskless Photo

The hosts of The View—minus a still-suspended Whoopi Goldberg—laid into Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Monday for giving Republicans political “ammunition” by posing maskless for a photo with a room full of masked schoolchildren.

The talk show took aim at the progressive star over the “lame excuse” her campaign released in response to the growing outrage, specifically calling out Abrams’ invocation of Black History Month to hit back at her critics.

Abrams, who is once again running for governor in Georgia, has come under fire over since-deleted tweets that featured photos of her visiting a Decatur elementary school. The school’s principal shared the photo of the maskless Abrams sitting in front of rows of masked kids—prompting the candidate to publicly thank the principal while quote-tweeting the photos. (Both Abrams and the principal have removed the posts, with the latter also deactivating her Twitter account.)

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