Six weeks later, Abrams came through again: Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock swept a pair of Senate runoffs, defeating two heavily funded incumbent Republicans and handing the party 50-50 control of the Senate. 3, Joe Biden carried Georgia by scarcely 10,000 votes. It was the kind of hard, detailed political work you can’t perform on Twitter. In the next two years, the voting rights organization she started, Fair Fight, mobilized around 800,000 newly registered voters in Georgia, many of them from Black communities. After Abrams narrowly lost the 2018 Georgia governor’s race to Brian Kemp, in part thanks to restrictive voting laws Kemp had implemented as secretary of State, she set about not to capitalize on her new fame but to fix the problem. An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that Fair Fight directly registered voters - it mobilized newly registered voters - and mis-stated the last name of the protagonist of “While Justice Sleeps.” It is Keene, not Steele.Ī lot of people on the left feel the same way.
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