Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams said Georgia Democrats’ victories give them a chance to address rights losses across the South, after NPR reported wins in the governor’s race and other key state contests.
In a Nov. 4 interview with Michel Martin on Morning Edition, Abrams said the wins offered “an opportunity to start correcting and restoring rights.” She described those rights as having been eroded in the South over more than two decades.
NPR reported that Keisha Lance Bottoms won the governor’s race, while Democrats also took the attorney general and secretary of state contests and the state House. NPR reported that Bottoms was elected Georgia’s first Black woman governor and the first Democrat to win the office in more than 20 years. The result followed EconoTimes’ earlier coverage of media projections favoring Bottoms.
Abrams, who ran for governor in 2018 and 2022, founded Fair Fight Action to oppose voter suppression, NPR reported. She said rebuilding the Democratic Party and restoring public trust were central to her work, and that regaining trust takes time. Abrams said the effort continued between elections. She credited sustained work against what she calls voter suppression with helping produce the result.
