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.
āThereās a lot of work thatās gone into this, but Stacey really is the architect of whatās been built in Georgia,ā said Dubose Porter, the former Georgia Democratic Party chairman and an Abrams mentor.
The 2018 campaign marked a notable shift in Georgia Democratsā overall approach.
Theyād 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.
āWeāll take on Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Fair Fight, Stacey Abrams and all of them.āTrump himself was an accelerating variable in Georgiaās shift, pushing some white suburbanites toward Democrats.