Stacey Abrams' record complicates 'radical' label [View all]
DALTON, Ga.—Campaigning in a north Georgia county where President Donald Trump got 70 percent of the vote, the Democratic nominee for governor recently talked about helping small businesses, expanding access to affordable health care and quality public education, and championing emerging energy markets.
Much of Stacey Abrams' pitch could have come from any of the business-friendly Democrats or moderate Republicans who've occupied the Georgia governor's mansion for the last half century.
Yet Abrams isn't one of those men: The Yale law graduate and former state legislative leader is a black woman from Atlanta and an unapologetic progressive who Republicans blast as an extremist.
"Most radical liberal to ever run for governor," one Republican Governors Association ad intones. Her opponent, Republican Secretary of State Brian Kemp, talks of a battle "literally for the soul of our state" because Abrams, he says, is a tool of "billionaires and socialists who want to turn Georgia into California."
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