New York Times political reporter Astead Herndon graced Monday’s front page with more fanboy service for the seemingly inevitable Stacey Abrams For President campaign: “Left and Center-Left Both Claim Stacey Abrams. Who’s Right?”
The well-placed story seems to exist more as an excuse to talk up Abrams’s presidential prospects than to provide actual news value, even though the would-be Democratic president lost the 2018 Georgia governor’s race to Republican Brian Kemp and lobbed baseless accusations of voter suppression afterward.
Of course, those accusations were cheered on by the newspaper.
Somehow this makes her a leading candidate for President of the United States (presumably after the Biden-Harris team cycle out) (click “expand”):
Stacey Abrams is the star of left-leaning Democrats. She is running for Georgia Governor in her second campaign., a symbol of her state’s changing demographics, and a political visionary who registered and mobilized tens of thousands of new voters — the kind of grass-roots organizing that progressives have long preached.
“I don’t think anyone could call Stacey Abrams a moderate,” said Aimee Allison, the founder of She the People, a progressive advocacy group for women of color.
Moderators would disagree. They see Ms. Abrams as an ally for rejecting left-wing policies that center-left Democrats have spurned, like “Medicare for all,” the Green New Deal to combat climate change and the defunding of law enforcement in response to police violence.
In pants-on-fire lie, Herndon positioned Abrams in the sensible center, insisting that “a review of Ms. Abrams’s policy statements and television advertisements, and interviews with political figures who have known her for yearsShow that a leader has meticulously calibrated her positionsIt is important to not drift into any Democratic lane.
Other than her falsified claims about voter suppression
Nope! Nope! “pragmatism,” This sounded a lot like the way the liberal media presented many 2020 Democratic presidential candidate candidates.
This is pragmatic pragmatism has encouraged some moderates — including Georgians who served with Ms. Abrams in the State Capitol — to compare her to other center-left national figures who had credibility among the grass-roots base, like Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton….
He added, “That independence has made her a very viable candidate.”
The cheering continued.
While Democrats might want to call her that, Mr. Jealous cautioned against this labeling. He cited two lessons about Ms. Abrams that he had learned from their first meeting as college activists at 19 years old. First, she would never be forced to travel somewhere that was not her home. The second: “Never speak after her,” he said.
Herndon concluded with a piece of dramatic stage-setting for an Abrams’ presidential run.
The Democratic donor Mr. Phillips said that he believed Ms. Abrams will be fine in the coming 2022 war between progressives and moderates.
It would make sense when it did.
“If and when she runs for president,” he said.
Herndon is a long-time booster of Abrams’ presidential prospects.
His February 2019 story, “Stacey Abrams Isn’t Running for President. Is She Right?”, similarly positioned Abrams as a kind of Goldilocks candidate, not too hot, not too cool, but just right: “As for Ms. Abrams, the crowd behind her was racially diverse and featured more women than men, and blended liberal priorities with bipartisan appeals.”
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