Stacey Abrams

A disturbing automated phone call sent out by a white supremacist group has rocked the hotly contested Georgia gubernatorial race, leading both candidates to denounce the racist message. The call targeted former talk show host Oprah Winfrey, who is supporting Democratic candidate Stacey Abrams and campaigned for her last week.

The robocall features a man attempting to impersonate Winfrey saying, “This is the magical Negro Oprah Winfrey asking you to make my fellow Negress Stacey Abrams the governor of Georgia.”

The call went on to say that the “Jews who own the American media” use Winfrey to “trick dumb white women” into doing what they wanted. The robocall also labels Abrams as “a poor man’s Aunt Jemima,”

Abrams is attempting to become the first African-American woman elected governor in U.S. history.

The video is made by TheRoadToPower.com, an anti-Semitic video podcasting website. Amid more racist insults, the recording says Abrams “is someone white women can be tricked into voting for, especially the fat ones.”

Abrams’s opponent, Secretary of State Brian Kemp, in an emailed statement to The Hill, called the robocall “vile,” “racist” and “absolutely disgusting.”

“I stand against any person or organization that peddles this type of unbridled hate and unapologetic bigotry,” he said.

ABC News Chief Anchor George Stephanopoulos asked Abrams on “Good Morning America” on Monday morning if she was worried that these racist appeals were going to work.

“What I’m concerned about is that his overarching architecture of voter suppression, of ostracization, of demeaning and dehumanizing people, that that can cause people to think that their votes don’t count, which is why we’ve been so aggressive about telling people the best antidote to his antics is to actually turn out and engage,” Abrams told Stephanopoulos.