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Abrams meets with top Democrats about possible 2020 Senate bid
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/11/politics/stacey-abrams-georgia-senate-2020-meeting/index.html
Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams is discussing a possible run for one of Georgia's seats in the US Senate in 2020 and has already started talking with top Democrats about a potential bid. Abrams met separately on Thursday with both Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, the chair of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, to discuss a possible US Senate run in 2020, according to a source familiar with the meetings.
Abrams electrified Democrats with her unsuccessful bid for Georgia governor in 2018, losing by less than 2 points to Gov. Brian Kemp and just narrowly missing the threshold for forcing a runoff (that would have required holding Kemp, who finished with 50.2% of the vote, under 50%). And Abrams has continued to stoke speculation about her political future in the weeks since the midterms -- in mid-December, she told a crowd at Fortune's Most Powerful Women summit that "yes, I'm going to run again," adding, "What it is I'm going to run for I haven't decided yet -- stay tuned."
But the results were also encouraging for state Democrats. Abrams herself told Rolling Stone shortly after her concession that "Georgia is a purple state now," adding, "My opponent did not outperform Republican presidential candidates. I did. I outperformed Democratic presidential candidates, and what that signals is that this is a competitive state."
If Abrams does decide to jump into the state's 2020 US Senate race against incumbent Republican Sen. David Perdue, she would instantly be a front-runner in the Democratic primary, and be able to draw on a fundraising base that powered her to a record-breaking $22 million haul in 2018.
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Cha
(298,313 posts)Hope you are doing well
Cha
(298,313 posts)Rhiannon12866
(207,437 posts)I'm sure she'll be outstanding in any position she tries for, but I still don't trust the results of the November election.
KelleyKramer
(9,025 posts)Hopefully they can get a lot of the voter purges straightened out in time for 2020
If she could pull off a senate upset in GA that would be awesome
GreenPartyVoter
(72,388 posts)oasis
(49,551 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,629 posts)I think her lawsuit is still ongoing and could go far in ensuring GA elections are never again as rigged as the one she went through.
Behind the Aegis
(54,087 posts)I hope she does run for Senate. For anyone who has never heard her speak, find a speech of hers...she is AWESOME!
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