Ambition is a fine quality in anyone, but somebody needs to tell former state Rep. Stacey Abrams that she’s trying way too hard and is starting to look like the next Beto O’Rourke.
Abrams, whose most significant act in politics to date remains losing a race for Georgia governor and refusing to concede, said in a new interview that not only will she be elected president someday, but that it will certainly happen by 2040.
“That’s my plan,” she told FiveThirtyEight. “And I’m very pragmatic.”
It’s not readily obvious what Abrams’s “plan” is. It’s not even clear that she knows what “pragmatic” means.
To be fair, the woman interviewing Abrams kind of pushed her in that direction by asking if she thought a black woman would win the presidency within 20 years and then asking with a charmed smile whether that black woman would be Abrams.
Abrams, of course, hasn’t run for any federal office. And she lost her most recent race for governor of Georgia. She’s under the impression that that qualifies her for the presidency, and she’s even inviting Democrats running for the nomination to pick her as their running mate.
“I’m a very accomplished person who has experience on a realm of issues and has the capacity to do this job,” she said in the interview. And without a flicker of self-awareness, she added, “I’m not in the conversation just because I’m a black woman.”
Why, then, does she think she’s in the “conversation”? Is there data somewhere that Democratic voters are clamoring to elect election losers for president? I suspect that her experience as a cheesy women’s fiction novelist isn’t a major selling point for a President Stacey.
Abrams really is following the same path as Beto O’Rourke. Like him, she failed in her latest race, but because liberal journalists love her, she believes she was “just born to be in it.”
