Stacey Abrams wins Democratic primary in Georgia. She could become the nation's first black woman go

[George II]

Source: CNN

Stacey Abrams wins Democratic primary in Georgia. She could become the nation's first black woman governor

Washington (CNN)Stacey Abrams will win the Democratic primary in Georgia's gubernatorial race Tuesday, CNN projects, becoming the first black woman in the nation to hold a major party's nomination for governor.

If she wins in November, she will become the country's first black female governor.
The former state House minority leader defeated former state Rep. Stacey Evans, who ran a campaign that tried to appeal to moderates and independent voters.

Abrams' status as an African-American with strong progressive support, as well as Georgia's status as an early primary and marquee general election state, made her campaign a major draw for national Democratic figures.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/politics/georgia-governor-race-stacey-abrams/index.html

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Victory speech at the link.

This is great, HISTORIC news!!!

[Clarity2]

1. I just saw her on Lawrence O

She is fierce and seems very genuine! I hope she wins!

[George II]

2. Further in the article is this about Texas:

In Kentucky, former Marine combat pilot and political newcomer Amy McGrath defeated Lexington Mayor Jim Gray in a primary to take on Rep. Andy Barr in the competitive 6th District House race....

Another female military veteran, former Air Force intelligence officer Gina Ortiz Jones, won a runoff in Texas' 23rd District and will face Republican Rep. Will Hurd in a vast region that includes much of the Texas-Mexico border. Ortiz Jones defeated Rick Trevino, who was backed by the Bernie Sanders-aligned group Our Revolution, in Tuesday's runoff, CNN projects.

Good news all around tonight, with more to come.

[Cracklin Charlie]

3. She seems a formidable candidate.

Get this done, Georgia!

[msongs]

4. congrats in order. best wishes for the real deal in Nov nt

[iluvtennis]

5. Former Georgia state lawmaker is the first black woman to win her party's nomination for governor

Link to tweet

“We are writing the next chapter of Georgia’s history where no one is unseen, no one is unheard and no one is uninspired,” she said.

[Cha]

6. Awesome! Best of Luck

in the GE, Stacy Abrams!

Mahalo, George!

[CottonBear]

7. I voted for her! I am so excited! I cannot wait until November 2018.

Blue Wave, baby! 🌊

I am proud to be woman from Georgia who voted and helped Ms. Abrams make history.

[Hortensis]

8. And, she has two clear months to talk to the voters

as the two remaining Republican candidates duke it out in a runoff election.

Vox: That means nine long weeks of two Republicans who honestly aren’t that different from each other finding reasons to slam their opponent and competing to position themselves as the most fanatically right-wing option in the race — weeks that Abrams will be able to use to introduce herself to voters on her own terms and set up the campaign she wants to run for the fall.

Vox also points out that Democrats have now moved from supporting black candidates for office to supporting black candidates for tough races.

African Americans have been a core pillar of the Democratic Party’s electoral base for decades now, but until recently it’s been extremely rare to see black candidates nominated to run outside of safe majority-minority districts.

When Barack Obama captured his party’s nomination for Illinois Senate in 2004, it was as a candidate who started out as an extreme underdog and benefitted from the flukey implosion of his rivals’ campaigns. Obama getting elected president started to change things, and Cory Booker and Kamala Harris followed him into the US Senate — though, like Obama and Carol Moseley Braun before him, they were holding down safe seats.

On Tuesday, Stacey Abrams won a statewide nomination for a different kind of race. A Democratic nominee in Georgia is definitely an underdog, but she’s not a sacrificial lamb — Democrats sincerely believe they have a shot at winning this race, and Abrams was the national party’s preferred choice.

Something very similar is true of Colin Allred in TX-32. Hillary Clinton carried this traditionally very red district in parts of Dallas and its northern suburbs, so Democrats know they have a real shot. Their standard-bearer, as of tonight, will be an African American civil rights lawyer and former NFL player. And Allred, even more so than Abrams, was an “establishment” pick — national party leaders like their odds with him.

Neither of these races are gimmes, and both might lose in the end. But you lose 100 percent of the elections you don’t contest, and picking black nominees for tough races is new for Democrats.

[heaven05]

9. fingers crossed

this Party must tsunami these corrupt pigs running this country.

[mcar]

10. A decisive win!