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Georgia Democrat and leading voting rights activist,StaceyAbrams, said Wednesday that she will launch another campaign to become the nation's first Black woman governor.
The announcement sets up a likely repeat of the race between Kemp andAbrams. The governor's race was one of the most close races of the year and was dominated by allegations of voter suppression, which Kemp denied.
Georgia should no longer be written off as a GOP stronghold because of the strong showing of Abrams. Joe Biden became the first Democratic presidential candidate to capture it since 1992 because of her performance and subsequent organization. The party won a narrow Senate majority after victories in two special elections.
The governor's race in the year 2022, will be a test of whether those gains were a one-time phenomenon or if they marked the beginning of a more consequential political shift in the South.
In a state where Democrats often sought to win power by relying on Black voters and appealing to older white moderates,Abrams ran as an unapologetic progressive. A number of Republican governors have refused to expand Medicaid, but the 47-year-old Abrams embraced it.
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Georgia is narrowly divided and voters reject the president's party in the first election of their presidency. Recent transplants to the booming Atlanta area, Black voters who hadn't participated in previous elections and younger, more liberal white voters are some of the new voters that Democrats can attract.
Although Kemp defeated her, she won more votes than the previous Democrat did.
In the face of the loss, she acknowledged Kemp as the victor but refused to concede the race, citing gross mismanagement by the secretary of state. She accused Kemp of using his office to purge the rolls of inactive voters, enforce an "exact match" policy for checking voters' identities, and pass other measures to tile the outcome in his favor.
Kemp denied any wrongdoing.
A new group called Fair Fight was started byAbrams after the election, which has raised more than $100 million and built a statewide political operation that has registered hundreds of thousands of new voters in Georgia. The state had record-breaking turnout in the presidential and Senate elections.
A new political climate is likely to lead to a repeat of the last election. Kemp faces opposition from Trump and his most GOP loyal supporters for not supporting the former president's baseless argument that he was cheated out of reelection through massive voter fraud, including in Georgia. Three recounts in the state affirmed Biden's victory.
One of the most vocal critics of Kemp is Trump. In September, the former president invited Perdue to run against Kemp and joked that he would prefer the incumbent governor to him.
Kemp pushed through restrictive changes to voting laws in response to Trump's 2020 national defeat despite his loathing of him. Georgia's new law giving the legislature more control over elections officials will reverse years of work fighting voter suppression, according to many Democrats. Other Democrats hope the new voting law will make them more determined to vote.
In April, she told The Associated Press that Republicans were gaming the system because they were afraid of losing an election.
Republicans tried to gain an upper hand by using the possibility of anAbrams candidacy to get their voters to vote. Kemp allies formed a group to stop her from winning the governorship in 2022.
There are vulnerabilities on several fronts. Her national stature raises questions about whether she is more interested in seeking higher office than in running the state. Republicans tried to blame her for Major League Baseball pulling the All-Star Game out of Atlanta last year over backlash to the restrictive new voting law, but she discouraged boycotts.
Republicans argue that she criticized Trump for not accepting Biden's resignation when she herself refused to concede to Kemp, even though she lost the election.
After the election, she didn't file a legal challenge to the results as the former president did in multiple states, so she took pains to distinguish what she did from what Trump did.
In August, he told the Bitter Southerner that his responsibility was not to challenge the legitimacy of our democracy, but to challenge those who would undermine that democracy. It was for that reason that I made my non-concession speech.
One issue from the campaign has been resolved, and that is the IRS tax debt that was paid off byAbrams.
She is part of a growing group of Black women who are seeking statewide office.
DeJear is running for governor in Iowa. In Florida, a democrat is running for the Senate. In North Carolina, two people are competing for the Senate seat.
Winsome Sears was elected lieutenant governor as a Republican.
None has the national stature of Abrams.
Time magazine has a list of the world's 100 most influential people. She was interviewed by the Duke and the Duchess of Sussex. She wrote two books. She sold one of her old romance novels, written under the pen name Selena Montgomery, for development as a television program. She started a speaking tour.
She considered running for president in 2020 but decided against it. When Biden became the nominee, she openly advocated to be his running mate, a position that eventually went to the first Black woman and first person of South Asian descent, to hold that post.
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