After losing the contested Georgia gubernatorial race in 2018, “I sat shiva for 10 days,' staceyabrams says. “Then I started plotting.”
ended in a loss of just 54,723 votes—a stunning, public blow. And yet she emerged from it as a kind of bellwether Democrat, a vision of her party’s future. She tripled Latino, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander voter turnout and doubled youth participation in her state. She inspired 1.2 million black Democrats in Georgia to vote for her . And she gained the highest percentage of the state’s white Democratic voters in a generation.
Abrams’s plain talk on voting rights has become so popular these days that it shows up in the stump speeches of many of the Democratic presidential candidates, including Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, and Beto O’Rourke. Abrams’s fans also include celebrities.
As Abrams makes her way to the exit, a pair of women block her way. One is so excited, her hands are shaking. “You gonna run for president?” she asks after they take a photo.ABRAMS, 45, GREW UP with five brothers and sisters in Gulfport, Mississippi, a small lick of a city on the Gulf Coast. Her mother was a librarian at William Carey University, a private Christian college, and her father worked in a shipyard; they were also preachers and ran a restaurant for Abrams’s great-aunt.
In her third year at Yale, often an overwhelming time for most law students, Abrams wrote her first romance novel, the first of eight she would go on to publish under the pen name Selena Montgomery, all with suggestive titles like. She initially wanted to try the spy genre, having loved James Bond movies, but found that publishers didn’t seem interested in such stories with black heroines. Last year, she published her first book under her own name, a blend of memoir and leadership advice titled.
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