The most impressive loss in modern Democratic history is a blueprint for lasting victory.
VeepstakesStacey Abrams has a lot going for her as a public figure, but the case for Joe Biden to make her the Democratic vice presidential nominee, out of all the many options he has available to him, begins and ends with two numbers. The first is 60, which is the percentage of Black citizens in Georgia who, according to the Census Bureau’s Current Population Survey, voted in the 2016 election.
Abrams ultimately lost her race, against Republican Brian Kemp, by a 55,000-vote, 1.4–percent point margin. But she was working against some serious headwinds: For one, if she had won, she would have been the first Black woman to serve as governor in the history of the United States.
There are a number of reasons one could point to to explain how Abrams got 68 percent more votes than any other Georgia Democrat in history. She has an impressive résumé, having made her way from a six-sibling family in Gulfport, Mississippi, to Yale Law School, then winning a caucus vote to become minority leader of the Georgia Legislature at the age of 38.
But what set Abrams apart even from other 2018 overperformers like Beto O’Rourke—and what makes her an ideal choice for Biden to elevate into a central position of Democratic power—was that she founded and ran an organization called the New Georgia Project. That group ran a public-information campaign about voting rights, and litigated Kemp’s suppression tactics in court, and registered more than 200,000 voters.* Abrams has since founded a similar national organization called Fair Fight.
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