Stacey Abrams, a top election denier and a twice-failed candidate for governor of Georgia, is reportedly considering launching a third campaign for the position, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Abrams ran against Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in 2018 and 2022, losing both races while claiming without evidence that the 2018 contest was a stolen election marred by widespread voter suppression. With the 2026 governor’s race on the horizon, Abrams reportedly has not ruled out jumping into the fray, though her plans remain unclear, according to the Journal-Constitution.
“Every Georgia Democrat is scared to death Abrams runs again because they know they can’t beat her in the primary,” Cody Hall, an adviser for Kemp, told the Journal-Constitution. “But she’s also probably their worst candidate in the general.”
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Abrams didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
The Democrat primary field for the Georgia gubernatorial race is starting to take shape, with Democratic state Sen. Jason Esteves recently entering the running while former Democratic Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance-Bottoms is also expected to get in, according to the Journal-Constitution. In her 2022 run for office, most other Democrats stood down to clear the way for Abrams to easily secure the nomination, but it looks like she will have to compete for it this time around.
While some of the campaign infrastructure she established in her earlier runs for governor has since fallen apart, Abrams still has high name recognition and a solid rolodex of donors to draw on if she wants to run for governor again, according to the Journal-Constitution. However, some Georgia Democrats are of the opinion that the party should put forward a fresh candidate.
“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 Journal-Constitution. “Can some other Democrat win? Yes, if there is a candidate who can hold 90% of the Black vote and attract rural voters and somehow overcome the GOP’s very effective whisper campaign.”
Abrams lost to Kemp in 2018 by about 55,000 votes, and Kemp bested her in 2022 by a much wider margin of approximately 300,000 ballots. Former President Joe Biden reportedly considered making Abrams his running mate in 2020 to prove that he “isn’t just another old white guy,” but Biden ultimately decided to go with Kamala Harris, then a senator representing California.
Meanwhile, some of the organizations Abrams established in recent years have found themselves in varying degrees of hot water with authorities.
For example, the Georgia State Ethics Commission handed down a $300,000 fine to the New Georgia Project, a nominally nonpartisan voter registration group that Abrams founded, in January. The ethics commission determined that the organization failed to disclose millions of dollars in spending that boosted Abram’s 2018 run.
Moreover, Fair Fight — another Abrams group — has recently made major staff cuts and reduced the scope of its mission as various legal expenses mount, according to the Journal-Constitution.
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