Democratic voting rights activist Stacey Abrams says she's running again in Georgia. She'll be the nation's first Black female governor if she wins.
said Wednesday that she was launching another campaign for governor, which would make her the nation’s first Black woman to lead a state.
The 2022 governor’s race will test whether those gains were a one-time phenomenon driven by discomfort with then-President Trump, or marked the beginning of a more consequential political shift in a rapidly growing and diversifying South.In a state where Democrats often sought — and failed — to win power by relying on Black voters and appealing to older white moderates, Abrams ran in 2018 as an unapologetic progressive.
Abrams was defiant in the face of the 2018 loss, acknowledging Kemp as the victor but refusing to concede the race, citing “gross mismanagement” in his role as secretary of state overseeing the election. She accused Kemp of using his office to aggressively purge the rolls of inactive voters, enforce an “exact match” policy for checking voters’ identities that left thousands of registrations in limbo and pass other measures to tilt the outcome in his favor.
Kemp’s disavowal of problems in Georgia’s 2020 election — and Trump’s animus toward him — did not stop him from pushing through restrictive changes to voting laws in response to Trump’s defeat. Many Democrats are worried that Georgia’s new law, which gives the GOP-run Legislature more control over elections officials, will reverse Abrams’ years of work fighting voter suppression.
Abrams faces vulnerabilities on several fronts. Her national stature could raise questions that she’s more interested in eventually seeking higher office than in running the state. Republicans tried to blame her for Major League Baseball’s decision to pull the All-Star Game out of Atlanta last year over backlash to the restrictive new voting law, though Abrams repeatedly discouraged boycotts.
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