I live in Georgia. Stacey Abraham is a corporate fraud who denied Tara reade in defense of joe biden using sources such as the nyt. Then the New York Times said they didn’t absolve joe biden of guilt and that she was full of shit basically and she got a head pat from pedo joe. She is not a fighter she is a career politician who literally runs a democratic super PAC. Fuck this asshole shes never going to win by sucking off the corporate teet in a place like georgia, only an actual leftist would win the governorship promising legal weed universal healthcare free college 15 dollar minimum wage. That candidate would destroy Brian kemp.
yeah, but wasn't that the election that people like to say Brian Kemp stole? Her opponent was in charge of elections in Georgia while being a candidate. Also you can say 50k votes likes it's a big number or whatever, but in a race where 3,900,000 votes were cast, it's actually a really thin margin; and since then, she's started Fair Fight, an organization to do voter registration and outreach. She's not some loser like Beto, she's a full on lizard person aiming to outgrow her fishbowl.
Would Brian Kemp still be in control of the process, in this next election though? Unless Fair Fight has done something to address that or to otherwise get out the vote -- but I don't trust corporate Democrats to do either of those things successfully. The GOP probably did cheat, but they always cheat and I don't think Abrams will have what it takes to overcome the factors against her.
Like, she defended Michael Bloomberg then got behind Joe Biden so she's pretty far into the right wing of the Democratic party. I think this will be an incredibly difficult position to sell in '22 -- I don't think it will motivate people. I'm sure she wants to see her star rise but I think it's going to be a real challenge to do that with austere liberalism.
Beto significantly boosted Dem registration and turnout in 2018. She's the exact same "loser" Beto is. She's just working in a smaller state with a more concentrated black population all based in Atlanta. Beto's forced to bounce between four different major metro areas and still compete against the heavily conservative rural neighborhoods that Republicans consistently dominate.
Stacey's theory was that you could flip Georgia almost entirely by boosting turnout in Atlanta and she was right.
Beto's theory was that you could flip Texas almost entirely by boosting turnout in Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio and he was wrong.