Progressives (Liberals)

It appears that Lash goes out of her way to avoid saying anything negative about her buddies Trump and Coldjoint.

I believe Lash and Coldjoint share that view.

All you are saying is that she does not gossip like you are doing in the post I just quoted. Lash is one of the few people here who tries hard to be civil.

4. Rudeness, nastiness, and disingenuous has been and continues to be what all three of them is all about.

I haven't followed much, but my sense is that Abrams scares Biden himself, let alone his electorate... I'd be surprised if he choses her.

These other swing voters, oscillating between voting Democratic or not at all, are the Americans — largely racial minorities and young people — whom Ms. Abrams has devoted her career to reaching. As she explains it, there are overt voter suppression tactics, and then there is this more insidious thread, often unwittingly perpetuated by her own party, that tells this segment of swing voters that they are less worthy of courting.

Melanye Price, a professor of African-American studies and political science at Prairie View A&M University, said what was striking was not so much that Ms. Abrams views these unreliable voters as essential to the Democratic playbook, but that so few party leaders recognize their own role in alienating them. “It’s the biggest failure of the Democratic Party of the last decade,” she said. “I don’t think it’s malicious. I think it’s just benign neglect.”

As the first black woman to run as either major party’s candidate for governor in any state, Ms. Abrams became the face of the issue of voting rights in 2018, after narrowly losing her race to Brian Kemp, a Republican. She argued that racially motivated voter suppression had sealed Mr. Kemp’s victory, and shortly after launched Fair Fight, a PAC dedicated to expanding voter education and ballot access across the United States.

She still lived in her Atlanta townhouse, still read as many as three books at a time for fun (on rotation now: A biography of Huey Long, a novel called “A Place for Us,” and the latest from the sci-fi writer N.K. Jemisin). But she committed herself to the question of civic participation broadly and intensely, crisscrossing the country to raise money and give speeches, and starting another organization to educate voters on the importance of the census.

Since 2018, Fair Fight, along with its nonprofit arm, Fair Fight Action, has raised millions of dollars and funded teams at state Democratic parties across the country. In 2019, for example, Fair Fight helped Kentucky Democrats file a lawsuit that restored to the rolls some 175,000 voters who had been purged by the Republican governor. And amid the pandemic, the organization has shifted its focus to the expansion of voting by mail.

Ms. Abrams stressed that these efforts can matter little if citizens do not buy into the act of voting itself — in other words, if the barrier to participation is not so much a law or policy but a belief that the system has never valued one’s voice to begin with.

For Americans of color, it is often impossible to believe that there are any leaders who “want more for them,” Ms. Abrams said. It is critical, then, for Democrats to commit to persuading these communities that voting is still worth it, that “more and better is possible.”

Allowing disenchantment to fester unchecked, she reiterated, is its own blemish on the party. Few elections underscored the consequences better than in 2016, when black turnout dropped — and in many regions plummeted — contributing to Hillary Clinton’s losses in states like Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.

As Lauren Groh-Wargo, Fair Fight’s chief executive and Ms. Abrams’s former campaign manager, explained it, campaigns often don’t turn to black voters until after Labor Day, sending a cursory crush of mailers following a summer of intensive and individualized outreach to white so-called “persuadables.”

So you 'd like her as your next VP?

She's a powerful black woman

She's a powerful black woman and that might scare some people. Scares the bejeebers out of Georgia Republicans!

Scares the bejeebers out of ol 'cj.