Abrams and Gillum are returning to their roots as organizers, determined to change southern politics after getting close in 2018.
If Beto O’Rourke can lose his 2018 race but still be considered a top-tier candidate for president, where is the 2020 excitement for Stacey Abrams or Andrew Gillum, who lost their races in a similar fashion?
Gillum on Wednesday will introduce a plan to register a million new voters in Florida in order to give Democrats a leg up in 2020, seemingly passing on his own run. A Gillum spokesperson said they were expecting “several hundred” people to attend his Wednesday announcement. And Abrams has been thanking her 2018 volunteers and keeping them apprised of her plans, which she says she’ll decide on by April, all while promoting a new voting rights group, Fair Fight Action.
In their campaigns, Abrams and Gillum each made strong arguments for how they would lead differently; Abrams spent gobs of money on the ground finding her voters in places she needed to dominate, and Gillum employed a direct style of campaigning against a Trump acolyte. By competing everywhere, they drew crowds in unexpected places, and the relentless activity of their campaigns helped down-ballot Democrats who typically need a bigger boost in nonpresidential years.
There is some speculation within Democratic circles about the timing of her meeting earlier this month with Joe Biden, and whether or not Biden pitched Abrams on the idea of joining a potential ticket as his running mate. Abrams, who wrote in her political memoir of her plans to one day run for president, recently tweeted that 2020 was back on the table.
“Stacey Abrams running for US Senate is more of a benefit to the party than it is to Stacey Abrams, and we should make no mistake about that.” Abrams is also launching an organization called Fair Count to focus on the 2020 census and ensure undercounted populations are fairly represented. “The mismanagement of Georgia’s elections was particularly egregious, but this is a nationwide issue.
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