Stacy Adams announces bid for Georgia Governor challenging GOP’s Brian Kemp

Stacy Abrams, a member of the Democratic party, said that she will run in the upcoming Governor elections in Georgia on Wednesday, challenging Brian Kemp, the state’s current officeholder. If successful, Abrams would become United States’ first Black woman to become Governor.

The upcoming gubernatorial bid will be the second time Abram will be going up against Kemp, a member of the Republican party. The previous race between the two ended in a close call and was reportedly dominated by allegations of voter suppression, which Kemp denied.

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Abrams, 47, is a prominent voting rights advocate in the United States and a former lawmaker in the Georgia House of Representatives. In a tweet on Wednesday, she wrote that she is participating “because opportunity in our state should not be determined by zip code, background or access to power.”

Although Kemp defeated her by 1.4 percentage points, Abrams won 778,000 more votes than the previous Democrat to run for Governor.

Abrams said she would provide “leadership that knows how to do the job, leadership that does not take credit without also taking responsibility, leadership that understands the true pain that folks are feeling and has real plans. That is the job of governor, to fight for one Georgia, our Georgia.”

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Kemp said in a statement that Abrams was on a “never-ending campaign for power” in an attempt to become president, linking her to what he said was the “failed Biden agenda.”

Trump, who campaigned for Kemp in 2018, is now one of the governor’s most vocal critics. The former president held a rally in the state in September, pointedly inviting former United States Senator David Perdue to run against Kemp and sarcastically suggesting to the crowd that he would prefer Abrams to the incumbent governor.