The former gubernatorial candidate has vowed to use her star power to increase voter access to elections, possibly changing the playing field for Democrats in her home state and beyond.
Stacey Abrams at an event at The Carter Center in Atlanta on April 23. By Amy Gardner Amy Gardner National political reporter Email Bio Follow May 2 at 7:59 AM DECATUR, Ga. — In a quiet suite of offices above a bank in this eastern Atlanta suburb, Democrat Stacey Abrams’s newest venture is quickly taking shape.
Abrams’s emergence as the champion of one of the left’s central issues heading into a presidential election year reflects a rapid political climb during which she has deeply intertwined her voting advocacy with her own political career, a coupling that has drawn criticism at times. “Our democracy is under attack,” Abrams told Stephen Colbert on his late-night program in April, one of a series of national appearances she has made this year promoting Fair Fight Action as well as her book. “We have to stop voter suppression. It is real. It is pervasive. And it will destroy America if we don’t stop it.”A sign supporting Stacey Abrams’s campaign for governor on the lawn of a home in Atlanta.
“There is zero evidence to back up those claims in Georgia,” said GOP strategist Brian Robinson, who worked for one of Kemp’s primary opponents last year, Casey Cagle. “We had record turnout. How in the world can we have presidential-level turnout in a midterm and the story line coming out of it that is swallowed hook, line and sinker by the media is that we had voter suppression?”
For its part, Fair Fight is showcasing Abrams as she contemplates her next political move. The nonprofit coordinated State of the Union watch parties and published videos and Facebook ads about Abrams with the feel of campaign spots. One such video on the organization’s homepage is called “Stacey Abrams Highlight Reel.”
The second of six siblings, Abrams was also informed by her parents’ experience coming of age in Mississippi during the Jim Crow era. Both were involved in the civil rights movement from early ages; her father was arrested when he was 16 while helping register people to vote. As Abrams told Elle magazine last September, “My mom would take us with her to vote. She wanted us to see the act of casting a ballot and understand it was a sacred right.
Then-state Rep. Stacey Abrams talks with Georgia Court of Appeals Chief Judge Herbert Phipps on the House floor on Jan. 13, 2016. Called New Georgia Project, the organization set out to register tens of thousands of Georgians who are part of what Abrams and others call the New American Majority — primarily young people and people of color who vote in lower numbers than older and white voters. It drew funding from billionaire George Soros and his son Alexander, Abrams has said.
Nse Ufot, the current head of New Georgia Project, said that because the group was required to turn in all applications it collected to the secretary of state, those that had missing information or questionable signatures ended up being submitted.Although Abrams had pledged to register 120,000 new voters that first year, ultimately the group claimed to have registered 86,000, with only 49,000 showing up on the rolls, according to officials with the group.
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