Washington (CNN) Democrats Stacey Abrams and Andrew Gillum are calling on the US Senate to reject President Donald Trump's nomination of a federal judge in North Carolina, saying he supported measures that they say disenfranchise African-American voters.

"Thomas Farr's record of hostility and disregard for fundamental civil rights disqualifies him for a lifetime appointment that will allow him to codify his discriminatory ideology into law," Abrams and Gillums, who are both African-American, said in a statement Tuesday.

"We call on all U.S. Senators who revere our democracy -- who put that democracy above party loyalty -- to reject this nomination and deny Thomas Farr the platform to continue his crusade against voting rights," the two said.

Abrams and Gillum, who lost in their respective bids to be the governors of Georgia and Florida, argued that North Carolina's Eastern District should be "represented by a Bench that respects its diversity, not one that actively works to disenfranchise them."

Abrams accused her opponent, Brian Kemp, who was overseeing the Georgia gubernatorial election as secretary of state, of voter disenfranchisement and suppression , and the Florida gubernatorial race was marked by racially charged rhetoric.

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