Oprah Winfrey campaigns for Democrat Stacey Abrams in Georgia

On Thursday, Oprah Winfrey fired up a crowd in Marietta, Georgia, while campaigning for the state's Democratic gubernatorial candidate, Stacey Abrams.

Abrams is running against Republican Brian Kemp, who is also Georgia's secretary of state and overseeing the election. His office has put more than 53,000 voter applications on hold, and Winfrey was met with cheers when she declared: "Every single one of us — every single one of us — has the same power at the polls, and every single one of us has something that, if done in numbers too big to tamper with, cannot be suppressed and cannot be denied."

Winfrey stressed she is not planning to run for any office, and insisted this was not an attempt to test the waters. "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, for the right for equality at the polls," she said. "And I want you to know that their blood has seeped into my DNA, and I refuse to let their sacrifices be in vain. I refuse." Catherine Garcia

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