Abrams stays quiet on presidential ambitions, boosts 'civility'

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Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia gubernatorial candidate and current Democratic Party rising star, has a message for the leaders of Michigan’s newly-divided government: Keep working together.

Abrams, who narrowly lost her gubernatorial contest last year and delivered the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in February, was a keynote speaker Wednesday at this year’s Mackinac Policy Conference on Mackinac Island.

Frequently discussed as a possible entrant into the Democratic presidential primary, Abrams declined to say whether she would put her hat in the ring when asked twice by interviewer Devin Scillian of WDIV-TV in Detroit.

Instead, she was one of several speakers who took the opportunity to beat the familiar drum in favor of “civility” at the annual conference, a popular theme for the confab attended by many of Michigan’s business and political elite. She shared stories about her six years as minority leader of Georgia’s House of Representatives, and how she worked closely with Georgia’s conservative Republicans.

Read more: https://www.michiganadvance.com/2019/05/29/abrams-stays-quiet-on-presidential-ambitions-boosts-civility/

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1. Biden's VP pick if he gets the nomination. nt

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2. I second that emotion