There was a prominent Atlanta resident missing Tuesday when President Biden swung through the city to press for voting protections: Stacey Abrams. A scheduling conflict was blamed for her absence.
Still, the moment speaks to a broader question Democrats across the country are facing at the outset of a critical election year: whether to appear alongside a president whose popularity is waning. That calculation is especially precarious for Abrams, who is running for governor in a state that was once a Republican stronghold but is now almost evenly split between the parties.
“Not being in attendance because you have something to do is a way for you to not alienate the president, who’s the stand-in for the establishment wing of the party,” said Emory University political scientist Andra Gillespie. “But it also shields you from criticism from progressives, who might be critical if it looked like she was accepting of a symbolic gesture that didn’t come with any substantive announcement.”Georgia groups allied with Abrams demanded on Tuesday that Biden do more.
“If she was there or not, I don’t know if that changes the speech,” Woodall said. “She has demonstrated where she stands on the legislation.”
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