A Georgia Democrat making her second attempt at securing the state’s highest office released her first campaign ad Tuesday, touting her determination to this time win the election.
“I was raised that when you don’t get what you want, you don’t give up,” Stacey Abrams said in the ad. “You try again. You try because it’s how things get better. It’s how the world moves forward. I don’t quit, because Georgians deserve leadership, and that’s what a leader does.”
The ad was released after President Joe Biden nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to be the next Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
BIG NEWS: We just launched our campaign’s first TV and digital ad!
Help us reach as many voters as possible and keep it on air: https://t.co/5Kl4dWlO6r pic.twitter.com/bT8RfT0VsP
— Stacey Abrams (@staceyabrams) March 15, 2022
Biden said he would choose a black female for the role, and rumors initially swirled that Abrams, who is an attorney, could be the choice.
Abrams will likely square off against either incumbent Governor Brian Kemp (R) or former Senator David Perdue (R-GA), who are running neck and neck atop the Republican primary polls.
Kemp pulled out a victory against Abrams, who refused to concede the race and claimed that Kemp’s “voter suppression” efforts propelled him to victory.
Abrams has remained a controversial figure in Georgia, even without winning the governor’s seat.
When Kemp signed HB 202 into law, which reformed Georgia’s absentee voting procedures, Abrams led the charge in a boycott of the state.
The 2021 Major League Baseball (MLB) All-Star game was slated to be held in Atlanta until Abrams and others leaned on the league to move the game. Eventually, the MLB caved and moved the game to Denver, costing Atlanta and the state millions in revenue.
More recently, Abrams had to apologize after she was photographed unmasked, surrounded by a classroom full of masked students.
“I took a picture and that was the mistake,” Abrams said at the time. “Protocols matter and protecting our kids is the most important thing and anything that can be perceived as undermining. That is a mistake and I apologize.”
Monday, The Georgia Star News reported that two nonprofits with which Abrams is intimately familiar will spend more than $1 million fighting another election integrity bill.
Fair Fight Action, which Abrams founded in 2014, and the New Georgia Project, for which she served as CEO, will be part of the effort to kill HB 1464, which will give the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) latitude to investigate election fraud claims, make paper ballots subject to public record upon request, and tighten chain-of-custody laws on absentee ballots.
Kemp’s office did not return a comment request.
_ _ _
Pete D’Abrosca is a reporter at The Georgia Star News and The Star News Network. Email tips to [email protected].
Photo “campaign ad” by Stacey Abrams.
