{"id":1073496,"date":"2021-12-01T16:29:31","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T21:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073496"},"modified":"2021-12-01T16:29:36","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T21:29:36","slug":"stacey-abrams-announces-campaign-for-georgia-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stacey-abrams-announces-campaign-for-georgia-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Stacey Abrams Announces Campaign For Georgia Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstacey-abrams-announces-campaign-for-georgia-governor%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1073496&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia Senate Minority Leader and 2018 Democratic nominee for governor, announced Wednesday that she would seek the post again.<\/p>\n<p>Her candidacy sets up a likely <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/11\/19\/stacey-abrams-georgia-not-a-free-and-fair-election\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">contentious rematch<\/a> between her and Republican Gov. Brian Kemp nearly four years after she <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/11\/18\/brian-kemp-officially-wins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">narrowly lost<\/a> her bid in one of the nation\u2019s most pivotal battleground states after allegations that Kemp, then the secretary of state, was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/11\/03\/brian-kemp-georgia-ruling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suppressing minorities\u2019 ability to vote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams announced her campaign in a video, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/staceyabrams\/status\/1466140248887418885?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeting<\/a> that \u201copportunity in our state shouldn\u2019t be determined by zip code, background or access to power.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"8.8791208791209\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I\u2019m running for Governor because opportunity in our state shouldn\u2019t be determined by zip code, background or access to power. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/gapol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#gapol<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be a founding donor to my campaign:<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gk2lmBINfW\">https:\/\/t.co\/gk2lmBINfW<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/z14wUlo8ls\">pic.twitter.com\/z14wUlo8ls<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/staceyabrams\/status\/1466140248887418885?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 2021<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While both Abrams and Kemp must win their respective primaries before facing each other, Kemp may face a challenge from the Republican Party\u2019s right flank.<\/p>\n<p>Kemp came under fire from former President Donald Trump\u2019s staunch defenders for refusing to overturn President Joe Biden\u2019s narrow victory in the state in 2020. He also refuted the former president\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2020\/12\/31\/signature-audit-georgias-cobb-county-no-evidence-voter-fraud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">allegations<\/a> of widespread voter fraud, further angering Trump\u2019s defenders.<\/p>\n<p>In the year since the election, former Democratic state Rep. Vernon Jones, who left the party and became a vocal advocate for Trump, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/16\/vernon-jones-governor-georgia-kemp-primary-republican\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched<\/a> a bid to oust Kemp while Trump continued to criticize the governor. Former Republican Georgia Sen. David Perdue, who lost his seat two months after Trump lost the state, has also reportedly weighed a primary challenge. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/04\/trump-georgia-loeffler-perdue-kemp\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Trump Vows Revenge Against Kemp For Not Helping Him Stay In Power)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trump even went so far as to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ajc.com\/politics\/a-pro-trump-georgia-ticket-makes-its-debut-at-perry-rally\/BX77TUHQDFGXLJQOWAKOFNX274\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suggest<\/a> that he would prefer Abrams as governor. \u201cStacey, would you like to take his place?\u201d Trump said in September. \u201cIt\u2019s OK with me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Abrams did not mention Kemp or Trump in her announcement video, instead focusing on her Georgia credentials.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRegardless of the pandemic or the storms, the obstacles in our way or the forces determined to divide us, my job has been to just put my head down and keep working toward one Georgia,\u201d Abrams said. \u201cBecause in the end, we are one Georgia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stacey Abrams, the former Georgia Senate Minority Leader and 2018 Democratic nominee for governor, announced Wednesday that she would seek the post again.Her candidacy sets up a likely contentious rematch &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1073496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1073496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}