Stacey Abrams' run for Georgia governor will test GOP voter suppression

Stacey Abrams' run for Georgia governor will test GOP voter suppression

Can you "out-organize" voter suppression? The White House thinks so — and we're about to find out.

By Hayes Brown, MSNBC Opinion Columnist

Georgia is once again going to be on everyone’s mind next year: Democrat Stacey Abrams announced Wednesday that she’s running for governor, setting up a likely rematch with Republican Gov. Brian Kemp.

Even if Abrams hadn’t decided to give it another shot, the Georgia election would likely be one of the marquee races of the year, with a Senate majority on the line. But her entry has made what would otherwise be just one campaign in many into a key test of one of the biggest gambles of President Joe Biden’s presidency. In Abrams’ run, we’ll have a real-time test of whether Republican efforts to block voters from the polls can be overcome without federal intervention.

Abrams only narrowly lost to Kemp in 2018, with less than 2 percentage points separating them. Since then, she’s been focused on protecting voting rights and expanding access to the polls for voters. Her efforts, alongside other organizers who’ve been putting in the work for years, helped turn the state blue, delivering control of the White House and Senate to Democrats.

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