Rep. Seth Moulton (D-Mass.) said on Sunday that racism was the reason Democrat Stacey Abrams lost the 2018 election for Georgia governor.

“If this country wasn’t racist, Stacey Abrams would be governor,” the Democratic 2020 presidential hopeful said during a CNN town hall in Atlanta.

“We have a problem with racism in America today ... Because people of color are being systemically denied the most basic rights in a democracy, which is the right to vote,” Moulton said. “That’s why we need a new Voting Rights Act in America.”

Abrams lost the governor’s race to to Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp (R) amid allegations of voter suppression. Kemp refused to recuse himself as the top election official in his own election, which Abrams and many others criticized as a conflict of interest.

Kemp’s office suspended 53,000 voters’ registrations because their names didn’t exactly match a state record. Almost 70% of the people on the list were black.