Abrams, the onetime candidate for Georgia governor who has become perhaps the nation's leading voice on voting rights, is being credited for paving those inroads.
โThereโs a lot of work thatโs gone into this, but Stacey really is the architect of whatโs been built in Georgia,โ said Dubose Porter, the former Georgia Democratic Party chairman and an Abrams mentor.
The 2018 campaign marked a notable shift in Georgia Democratsโ overall approach.
Theyโd do it by reshaping the electorate, by exciting the expanding universe of potentially Democratic voters: the youngest native white Georgians; whites from beyond Georgia; Black voters who cast ballots sporadically; Black voters moving to Georgia from other regions; and a growing Latino and Asian-American population.
โWeโll take on Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Fair Fight, Stacey Abrams and all of them.โTrump himself was an accelerating variable in Georgiaโs shift, pushing some white suburbanites toward Democrats.