For many Democrats, Georgia has come to symbolize the party’s future. But after one of its brightest stars, Stacey Abrams, lost her second bid for governor last week by a roughly 7-point margin, Democrats are beginning to dissect what happened up and down the ballot.
The question is not only pressing for future Democratic campaigns in one of the country’s newest swing states, but it’s important right now. Sen. Raphael Warnock, the only statewide Democrat who remained standing on Election Night, still has to win a Dec. 6 runoff with Republican Herschel Walker.
“Could it be that [Abrams’ campaign] was too insular, saying let’s just run the same playbook from four years ago and that’s going to work?” asks Tammy Greer, a professor of political science at Clark Atlanta University.
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