Stacey Abrams Is Ready to Be VP. She Might Be Just What the 2020 Race Needs
Her openness to a VP spot and continued fight against voter suppression offer some hope
Stacey Abrams only lost the 2018 Georgia gubernatorial race by 54,801 votes. The number of voter registrations that Brian Kemp, Abrams’ opponent, suppressed in 2017 when he was Georgia’s secretary of state and decided to play both referee and player in the gubernatorial race is 700,000. While Abrams was busy tripling voter turnout in the Latinx and Asian Pacific Islander communities, Kemp busied himself with stuffing their voter registrations into a wastebasket.
The reality is Abrams should be governor right now, but until someone decides to stop Republicans from cheating and lying their way into power, we will continue to see these “razor-thin” margins. Through her dogged persistence on the issue of voter suppression and her initial refusal to concede to Kemp, Abrams has signaled that she is in fact the person to save our democracy from itself.
While many of us were waiting with bated breath for the new rock star of the Democratic party to announce that she would indeed throw her hat into the ring for a presidential run, Abrams had other plans. Instead of running in the presidential election, she decided she was going to…
