2020 presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said he believes Stacey Abrams was robbed in Georgia's 2018 gubernatorial election against Republican Brian Kemp.

"Stacey Abrams ought to be the governor of Georgia," the Democratic South Bend, Ind., mayor said Thursday.

"When racially motivated voter suppression is permitted, when districts are drawn so that politicians get to choose their voters instead of the other way around, when money is allowed to outvote people in this country, we cannot truly say we live in a democracy," he said.

Abrams also expressed Thursday how she views the voting process in the state.

"You don’t have the right to vote in the state of Georgia. We have the opportunity to possibly think about maybe being able to participate in the right to vote in the state of Georgia. … We don’t know the truth because there wasn’t a fair fight," she said.

Kemp received 1,978,408 votes, or 50.2%. Abrams received 1,923,685 votes, or 48.8%, according to the New York Times.