Fact check: Tom Cotton suggested Stacey Abrams endorsed a boycott of Georgia. She opposed it.

Republican Sen. Tom Cotton of Arkansas suggested on Tuesday that Democrat Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia House minority leader and gubernatorial candidate, had initially supported a boycott of Georgia in response to the state's controversial new elections law.

At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on voting rights, at which Abrams testified, Cotton said, "March 31st, you wrote an op-ed in the USA Today about Georgia's law. And your first two words in that op-ed were, 'Boycotts work.'" Cotton repeated the claim on Twitter, saying that Abrams "wrote 'boycotts work.'" Facts First: Cotton's account of Abrams' words was highly misleading by omission. While Abrams did write that "boycotts work" and had played an important role in advancing civil rights, she proceeded to make clear in the op-ed that she was not calling for a boycott of Georgia at present -- saying that this was not necessary "yet," that "leaving us behind won't save us" and that "I ask you to bring your business to Georgia and, if you're already here, stay and fight. Stay and vote." Abrams was even more explicit in a video statement she tweeted the same day, saying, "To our friends across the country: Please do not boycott us."