Stacey Abrams said Monday that a 2020 presidential run is 'definitely on the table,' clarifying earlier remarks that seemed to rule one out.
In an onstage interview at South by Southwest, the former minority leader of the Georgia Statehouse, said she had been keeping a spreadsheet mapping out her future since she was a young woman, which showed she would not ready to make a White House bid for another eight years.
Abrams, who has built a national following, also said she thinks President Donald Trump is"racist,""xenophobic," and"homophobic," but said Democrats should not focus too much on him. After several observers took Abrams' comments to mean she was not weighing a White House bid at this time, her former campaign manager said those remarks referred to older plans, which have since changed.tweetedSenate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and others urged Abrams to challenge Georgia Republican Sen. David Perdue next year — a race many think only she can make competitive in the red state.
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