Stacey Abrams puts muscle into Georgia runoffs
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Source: MSN/The Hill
More than a week after Election Day, the Peach State has yet to be officially be called for either candidate - a by-hand recount is forthcoming - but Biden's roughly 14,000-vote lead has been lauded by Democrats, with much of the praise being directed toward Abrams.
After coming within 55,000 votes of becoming the state's first Black governor in 2018, Abrams founded Fair Fight Action, a nonprofit voting rights group dedicated to fighting voter suppression and promoting voter participation nationwide, but specifically in Georgia.
Over a third of Georgia is Black, and it's believed that Black voters were disproportionately disenfranchised when the state conducted the largest voter purge in U.S. history in 2017, an action that Democrats believe cost Abrams the gubernatorial election the following year.
Groups like Fair Fight Action successfully reregistered thousands of Georgians who were purged, and also registered hundreds of thousands of Georgians who had previously not voted.
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Stacy Abrams is showing how to mobilize voters even in red states.
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