United States: Stacey Abrams, kingpin of Democratic victory in Georgia
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Stacey Abrams at a campaign rally for former Democratic presidential vice-president Joe Biden.
Monday, November 2, 2020, at Turner Field in Atlanta.
AP Photo / Brynn Anderson
By: Carlotta Morteo Follow
6 min
The presidential election over, all eyes are on Georgia.
A southern state, historically republican, which has fallen into the Democratic camp.
An unexpected victory for Joe Biden which is decisive since Georgia must elect its two senators in January, the last chance for the Democrats to obtain a majority in the Senate.
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As this celebratory weekend in Atlanta, her name is on everyone's mind: “
Stacey Abrams was the catalyst that made it all possible.
Well done Stacey
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We are very proud of her, we thank her for everything she does for Georgia, for these elections, for having registered so many new voters.
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I hope Stacey Abrams will take the lead of the Democratic Party.
What she has done with her organization is fantastic.
She sought out the voices of young people, she gave them the energy, the means, and that's what makes Georgia and blue today.
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His organization, Fair Fight, has launched in recent years The New Georgia Project, a project for a new Georgia which brings together a multitude of local, social and community associations which campaign for democracy, the rights of minorities, workers, the poor. .
It is this citizens' coalition which made it possible to register this year nearly a million new voters on the electoral lists.
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There was a lot of misunderstanding and misinformation about the right to vote among African Americans and those who had been convicted in particular.
She clarified a lot of things.
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Stacey Abrams, former leader of the Democratic minority in Georgia's House of Representatives,
could have become governor in 2018
if she had not lost, evidently due to a campaign led by the outgoing governor to prevent and disqualify the vote of thousands of African Americans.
A campaign legal on paper, but deeply unfair.
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I think what happened with Stacey Abrams outraged people, it opened our eyes, and it made a lot of people vote.
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In this barbershop downtown, Nathaniel, razor in hand, discussing politics with his customers.
The stake, from now on, it is the second round of the senatorial ones:
I think that one can take a breath, decompress a little, but there is still a lot of work by January 5, to make switch in the democratic camp the two senators' seats at stake.
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Me, what worries me is that if we aggregate the number of votes that the various Republican candidates obtained, there, in the first round, they are at 60%
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So the Democrats will really have to mobilize the voters to go and vote…
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With Joe Biden's victory proclaimed, Stacey Abrams immediately called on voters in Georgia to stay mobilized, to elect Jon Ossoff and Reverend Warnock to the Senate on January 5, to give Joe Biden's new administration a chance for power. to govern, to keep its promises.
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