Can Stacey Abrams Turn Georgia Blue?

Published July 26, 2018 8:20am ET



On Tuesday night, Brian Kemp—the Georgia secretary of state and self-proclaimed “politically incorrect conservative” who owns a truck, talks about standing for the national anthem and happily supports President Trump—beat Lieutenant Gov. Casey Cagle in the state’s gubernatorial runoff, officially becoming the GOP nominee. Kemp will face off against Democrat Stacey Abrams, the Sanders-backed former Minority Leader of the Georgia House who is the first black woman in American history to win a major party gubernatorial nomination.

Kemp and Abrams are interesting characters—they’d be worth writing about even if they were running in an un-competitive state. But they’re running in Georgia (a typically red state that Democrats hope to turn purple in 2020 or 2024) in what looks like a good year for the Democrats.

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