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(8,969 posts) Sat Jan 12, 2019, 05:20 AM Jan 2019

Stacey Abrams meets with top DC Democrats about possible 2020 Georgia Senate bid

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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