Despite All The Puff Pieces, The Stacey Abrams VP Campaign Is A Bad Sign For Democrats – By Joe Cunningham (Red State) / April 28 2020
There is a full-court press from Stacey Abrams and media outlets to get her named as Joe Biden’s Vice Presidential candidate ahead of the 2020 election. Hailing from Georgia, the former state legislator (and that’s it as far as her resume of success really goes) is openly telling anyone and everyone that will listen that she would be more than happy to be his Vice President, and that she would make an excellent running mate.
As I mentioned last week, this is despite the fact that Abrams lost in a statewide election to Georgia’s current governor, Brian Kemp, and has since been whispered as a candidate to challenge him in 2022, the U.S. Senate, and a presidential contender herself. The problem with Abrams is that she hasn’t won, and currently can’t win, a statewide election in her home state, making her more of a liability to Biden than an asset.
CNN wrote a piece on her open campaign, and there is a lot in it that really puffs her up as a candidate.
The directness belies years of precedent by prospective running mates, who often publicly play coy about the vice-presidential ambitions while simultaneously privately running campaigns to get themselves picked. In a series of interviews with CNN, aides, former bosses, and longtime friends say that straightforwardness reflects who Abrams has been for her entire adult life: A black woman raised in Mississippi and Georgia who feels if she is not upfront about her ambitions, she will get passed over.
It’s an argument that Abrams has made herself in the early stages of Biden’s running mate search. Abrams used a call with donors this month to explain that no one asked her to lead as a young black girl in Mississippi, so she learned to raise her hand and make it known that she wanted a position of power, a source on the call said.
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