Abrams is more likely to be leading it. She was chosen to rebut Trump’s State of the Union in February, and pundits have floated her name for a presidential bid. She’s signaled interest in a 2020 run for the U.S. Senate or taking on Kemp again in 2022. Regardless of what her political future holds, she’ll be fighting for electoral reform, she says: “The horrendous disenfranchisement that we saw in Georgia cannot be allowed to be repeated.”
Right after the election, she launched the organization Fair Fight Georgia to combat voter suppression as well as amplify the progressive policies central to her platform: expansion of Medicaid, public education, criminal-justice reform. “Whether or not I’m in office, my responsibility is to advocate for the changes I believe are necessary,” she says. “I’m in a space where I have a pretty big megaphone, and I intend to use it.”