Oprah responds to racist robocalls impersonating her: 'VOTE your love!'

Oprah speaks about the midterm elections on Instagram

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published 6 November 2018

Oprah Winfrey responded Monday night to the news that a white supremacist group sent out racist robocalls impersonating her in Georgia this past weekend.

"I heard people are making racist robocalls in my name against [gubernatorial candidate] Stacey Abrams, who I am 100 percent for in Georgia," she said in a video on Instagram. "I just want to say: Jesus don’t like ugly."

View this post on InstagramThe antidote to Hate... VOTE your love!A post shared by Oprah (@oprah) on Nov 5, 2018 at 4:23pm PST

Winfrey used the video to again encourage her supporters to vote, captioning it, "The antidote to Hate... VOTE your love!"

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.