Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced Tuesday that failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams will deliver the Democratic Party’s official response next week to President Trump’s State of the Union address.

If you’re wondering why, of all the failed Democratic candidates from the last election cycle, including the supposedly magnetic, Kennedy-esque former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas, Democratic leadership chose Abrams, it’s almost certainly because of her post-2018 election narrative.