Georgia’s Democratic candidate for governor told more than 1,000 attendees at the party’s state convention Saturday that Democrats’ fate in November rests with people who don’t usually vote.
“In the areas of town we pass by and write off because no one there votes; we’ve gotta stop the car and go back,” Stacey Abrams told the crowd in Atlanta.
Driving turnout was a major theme of the event and has long been a staple for Abrams in her bid to become Georgia’s first Democratic governor in 15 years and the nation’s first-ever black female state chief executive.
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