Stacey Abrams: 'I would be an excellent running mate'
Experienced politicians know there is a right way to answer questions about pursuing higher office. Be demure. Redirect. Convey vague interest while insisting never to have given it serious consideration. But Stacey Abrams does not give the expected answer when I ask if she would accept an offer from former vice president Joe Biden to serve as his 2020 running mate. “Yes. I would be honored,” Abrams says. “I would be an excellent running mate.
Story continuesThe loss was not her end. The political star that is Stacey Abrams has continued to rise. On the heels of her defeat, she founded Fair Fight, a national organizing effort to ensure fair elections. This was followed by Fair Count, which works to achieve a fully accurate and representative census. Then, late last year, Abrams launched the Southern Economic Advancement Project to promote equitable economic and social policy for all races, classes, and genders across the region.
She is unbothered by these tortured trajectories, and feels a true calling to work in the service of others no matter what may unfold. “For me, the ambition is to serve as many people as I can, to the greatest extent I can, in the best way possible,” she says. “I cannot know every challenge I will meet. My job is to nurture the intellectual curiosity and the stamina necessary to respond to the unknown.
But Abrams insists she understands the role. “The VP’s job is to be chief lieutenant and partner by taking on the roles and responsibilities assigned to you by the president,” she says. “I am very self-aware, and I know that my résumé...is usually reduced to ‘She didn’t become the governor of Georgia.’ But it is important to understand all the things I did to prepare for that contest. That campaign was not a whim.
“We are well,” she begins. “My parents and my niece recently moved to Georgia from Mississippi. They now live quite close to both my youngest sister and me. We are all observing social distancing, but my dad is a bit surprised: ‘You’re not gonna give me a hug?’ he said. And I said, ‘Of course not. We’re gonna operate from six feet away.’ I opened the door with the Clorox Disinfecting Wipes I have with me at all times. And I didn’t hang out. I left.
Even from quarantine, Abrams is leading Fair Fight to help ensure the congressional stimulus package includes hundreds of millions of dollars to support vote-by-mail systems for the 2020 election. And she isn’t stopping with the most immediate election cycle. Abrams takes the long view, explaining the critical significance of this year’s census: “The Constitution does not permit the census to be postponed until 2021.
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