House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (D-SC) praised Stacey Abrams’ SOTU rebuttal as “good for the party,” adding with a chuckle that he thinks she was also “auditioning for the Senate race” in Georgia in 2020.
“I think she had two messages,” Clyburn said of Abrams’ speech. “I think it was very good for the party to have her there. Everybody knows she ran a great race. A lot of people suspect that things were stacked against us — her.”
“I think we were doing what we thought was necessary to hold her out as a part of the future of this party,” he continued. “She, I think, was auditioning for the Senate race.”
Many Democrats have urged Abrams to go up against Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) in 2020 after her impressive gubernatorial run — which she says was tainted by voter suppression and other illegal activity — made her a star in the party.
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Clyburn says, smiling, that Abrams was “auditioning for the Senate race” pic.twitter.com/D0r7uagCyv
— TPM Livewire (@TPMLiveWire) February 6, 2019
As a former state House constituent of Abrams, I can’t express how proud I was to see our native happy warrior speak to the nation. So many have stumbled in giving the response to the SOTU. This was the best SOTU response in recent memory (admittedly a low bar). But Stacey leapt past “not stumbling” into real eloquence.
It was a great tag team attack!
Nancy softened Creamsicleface up and Stacey delivered the knockout blows
I don’t think a Senate run would be good for her. She will almost certainly lose. Even with a an even bigger wave year, we saw that doesn’t have much effect in red states and Perdue is both an incumbent and a better candidate than the GA governor was. You can also expect the same bag of dirty tricks.
2 losses in 2 elections doesn’t seem like it would do a lot for her political career.
My Dad’s dream is a Sherrod Brown / stacey Abrams ticket. She could be an excellent VP candidate.
I just caught a part of a NPR story analyzing Trump’s SOTU speech. In the story, it was pondered (without sarcasm) that we could be seeing The Pivot. This was one of the NPR talking heads saying it.
No, I’m not joking.
Nice Polite Rethuglicans.
Still hilarious.