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Meet the Democrat who wants to be America's first black female governor
Source: The Guardian
Meet the Democrat who wants to be America's first black female governor
Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s state house minority leader, hopes to make
history – and her track record shows that pushing boundaries is what
she does best
Lucia Graves
Wednesday 3 May 2017 08.00 BST
It’s hard enough to be running for governor as a Democrat in Georgia. It’s harder still to do it as an African American. But to do it as an African American woman is almost like trying to shoot the moon. That, however, is precisely what Stacey Abrams is preparing to do.
The Democratic leader in the state capitol these last seven years, Abrams has long signaled her interest in running for the state’s highest office – and on Tuesday she finally filed paperwork, the first formal step in entering the race.
The contest to replace the outgoing Republican governor, Nathan Deal, is wide open. Three Republican candidates have already announced, but as a longtime Democratic leader (she was elected to the state house of representatives in 2006 and became the minority party’s leader in 2011), as well as a rising star on the national stage, the move marks her as the highest-profile Democrat in the field.
Abrams is hoping to harness some of the anti-Trump backlash that boosted her fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff in the first round of a special election for the US House of Representatives last month, though in a recent interview with the Guardian, she framed her mission differently. A former bureaucrat, district attorney and businesswoman, Abrams is hoping her diverse political background will be a selling point.
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Stacey Abrams, Georgia’s state house minority leader, hopes to make
history – and her track record shows that pushing boundaries is what
she does best
Lucia Graves
Wednesday 3 May 2017 08.00 BST
It’s hard enough to be running for governor as a Democrat in Georgia. It’s harder still to do it as an African American. But to do it as an African American woman is almost like trying to shoot the moon. That, however, is precisely what Stacey Abrams is preparing to do.
The Democratic leader in the state capitol these last seven years, Abrams has long signaled her interest in running for the state’s highest office – and on Tuesday she finally filed paperwork, the first formal step in entering the race.
The contest to replace the outgoing Republican governor, Nathan Deal, is wide open. Three Republican candidates have already announced, but as a longtime Democratic leader (she was elected to the state house of representatives in 2006 and became the minority party’s leader in 2011), as well as a rising star on the national stage, the move marks her as the highest-profile Democrat in the field.
Abrams is hoping to harness some of the anti-Trump backlash that boosted her fellow Democrat Jon Ossoff in the first round of a special election for the US House of Representatives last month, though in a recent interview with the Guardian, she framed her mission differently. A former bureaucrat, district attorney and businesswoman, Abrams is hoping her diverse political background will be a selling point.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/03/stacey-abrams-governor-georgia-democrat
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