Stacey Abrams is squandering a plausible chance at winning the Georgia governorship in 2022 by her quixotic bid to be Joe Biden’s running mate, analysts say.

Abrams is overtly campaigning to be tapped as the vice-presidential nominee by Biden, the presumptive 2020 Democratic standard-bearer, just as Georgia’s Republican governor, Brian Kemp, engages in an untested plan to reopen the state’s coronavirus-ravaged economy even though infection rates are not falling.