Stacey Abrams to expand voting rights work to 20 states ahead of 2020
Source: AJC
Las Vegas Stacey Abrams is set to announce an expansion of her voting rights group on Tuesday, with plans to help train staffers in 20 states this year who will seek to combat voter suppression in the 2020 elections.
The Georgia Democrat is expected to unveil the plans during a speech to a labor union in Las Vegas, then follow it up with an event this weekend at a Gwinnett County elementary school where technical issues triggered hours-long lines in November.
The new initiative increases the likelihood that she will prepare for a rematch in 2022 against Republican Gov. Brian Kemp rather than run for president, an idea she hasnt publicly ruled out.
The program, Fair Fight 2020, will focus mostly on battleground states and will be run through an arm of the Fair Fight voting rights group that Abrams launched after ending her campaign for governor.
Read more: https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/stacey-abrams-expanding-voting-rights-group-nationally/eeper6tpb1qNSUsZiOkHYJ/
riversedge
(70,242 posts)mopinko
(70,129 posts)i love that little clip of her in the ads for 'american swamp'.
katy tur asks her if the election was stolen from her, and she answers-
i think the election was stolen from the people of georgia.
a better side step of the wrong question you will never see.
she has just the right amount of a sneer in her voice, too.
she is so funny, too. we really need someone who can just point at these fools and laugh like hell at them.
INdemo
(6,994 posts)should be the DNC Chairperson.....
Gothmog
(145,321 posts)Faux pas
(14,681 posts)gademocrat7
(10,660 posts)Kind of Blue
(8,709 posts)I get around to asking the question so many have asked: Will she run for president in 2020? For me, the calculus is Am I the right person, and is this the necessary time? Abrams says. She has been meditating on what she can bring to what she considers an already solid field of candidates. The day of the conference, she held meetings with ORourke and Pete Buttigieg, and she spoke with both of them about the same thing. First, I expect candidates to talk about voter suppression, Abrams says. The second is that the South has to be part of any strategy for victory. My mission is to ensure that Georgia is seen as a competitive state for the general election.
To many Americans, Abramss wider platform has been eclipsed by her focus on voter suppression. But if she does decide to run, she says, her policy priorities will remain the same: expanding Medicaid, raising the minimum wage, enacting criminal justice reform, ensuring reproductive rights. Abrams is no Democratic Socialist and is content to talk about her values within a traditional capitalist framework. Her values were made in Georgia, she says. I think we spend a lot of time figuring out which shade of blue we are on the spectrum, and it depends on where you live, it depends on whats possible, it depends on how evolved your economy is, she tells me. Im fighting for getting a state minimum wage above $5.15 an hour. There has to be a recognition that, on the spectrum, progress looks different because of where you are. But that doesnt mean you dont dream of more.
Abrams is not the leader of a state or country yet, but she is already acting like it.
https://www.vogue.com/article/stacey-abrams-american-democracy-vogue-september-2019-issue?utm_brand=vogue&utm_source=twitter&mbid=social_twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned