Wednesday, 30 April 2025

Failed Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Stacey Abrams Reportedly Considering Another Political Run

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Twice failed Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is reportedly considering a third run for governor.

Abrams narrowly lost to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in 2018 and lost to Kemp by nearly eight points in a 2022 rematch.

Fox News reports:

Kemp, the popular conservative governor, is term limited and cannot seek reelection in 2026. The Cook Political Report, a top nonpartisan political handicapper, ranked the race to succeed Kemp in the battleground state a “toss up” – teeing up a likely competitive race in the Peach State.

Georgia has followed the national trend in the past three presidential elections, all with President Donald Trump at the top of the ticket. While Trump was triumphant in 2016 and 2024, former President Joe Biden won Georgia in 2020.

Republican Attorney General Chris Carr has already announced his gubernatorial campaign in November 2024. Lt. Gov. Burt Jones is rumored to be mulling his own bid for the Republican nomination. Campaign filings reported by WABE earlier this year revealed that Jones raised $1.7 million for a leadership committee – about half a million behind Carr.

On the Democratic side, Georgia state senator Jason Esteves announced his campaign for governor earlier this week. Rep. Lucy McBath, who had launched an exploratory committee for her own gubernatorial run, announced she was suspending her bid to support her husband, following complications from a cancer diagnosis.

Despite two consecutive gubernatorial losses to Kemp, Abrams has remained politically active in Georgia since 2022. In 2023, she was appointed the Ronald W. Walters Endowed Chair for Race and Black Politics of Howard University, one of the nation’s leading historically Black colleges.

From The Washington Free Beacon:

Twice-defeated candidate Stacey Abrams (D.) is eyeing another run for governor of Georgia, even as state Democratic leaders warn that her opportunity has passed and urge fresh contenders to step forward.

“She’s run twice, and that’s enough to convince me she won’t win,” Jimmy Johnson, the former chairman of the Appling County Democratic Committee, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Johnson said that “some other Democrat” could topple GOP dominance in Georgia.

“Abrams is great, but she missed the train,” said Marilyn Langford, a vice chair of the group Georgia 9th District Democrats.

The perpetual candidate’s potential third bid follows her back-to-back defeats to Gov. Brian Kemp (R.)—and, this time, she would likely face a competitive primary. State senator Jason Esteves has already launched a campaign, while former Atlanta mayor Keisha Bottoms, former DeKalb County chief executive Michael Thurmond, and others could enter the race soon, according to the Journal-Constitution. Kemp is term-limited.

Abrams, who served in Georgia’s House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, has been no stranger to controversy over the years.

A voting rights group Abrams founded, the New Georgia Project, agreed in January to pay a record $300,000 fine after it admitted to more than a dozen campaign finance violations, including failing to disclose $4.2 million in campaign contributions and $3.2 million in expenditures. The Georgia Senate in late February introduced a resolution to probe Abrams’s ties to the beleaguered nonprofit.


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