Stacey Abrams is running against history

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🗓️ 7 October 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Stacey Abrams wants to make history again. After losing the Georgia governor's race to Brian Kemp back in 2018, Abrams — the first Black woman to be a major party's gubernatorial candidate — spent four years coalition building across the state. Now she's back, armed with a national reputation, the experience of running for statewide office and a fresh determination to defend her state from voter suppression. Will it be enough to make her the country's first Black woman governor?

In her debut as the new host of It's Been a Minute, Brittany Luse talks to Abrams herself — about the power and pitfalls of being an icon; how she deals with criticism from inside her own party; and what it will take to shift the politics of the Deep South.

Brittany also brings on Christina Greer, political scientist at Fordham University, to discuss Abrams' strategy and how the former minority leader mirrors other Black women politicians who made history.

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0:00.0	Okay, I'm really welcome you. That's how I was like, I was like, what did I normally say? Welcome.
0:04.3	Hey girl, hey!
0:05.5	That's actually what I say literally every I say to my dad I say to my husband I say it's literally anybody
0:10.7	They talk to you hey, right? Oh, excellent. Yes
0:17.2	Hey girl, hey, I'm Brittany loose the new host of MPR's. It's been a minute
0:22.0	That's right from now on. I'll be here every single week coming through your speakers hosting this show
0:28.4	I'm so thrilled to be here and super excited for today's episode
0:33.1	That's because we're unpacking one of the biggest decisions in front of Americans right now the midterm elections
0:39.3	And this fall my first guest wants to make history
0:43.0	Hi former Georgia House Minority Leader and 2022 Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams
0:50.2	So you recently did an Instagram live with R&B singers Sierra and Monica to Atlanta legends and
0:56.5	And you called Monica by her internet nickname Gunica and people went wild
1:05.2	So I have to know what is your favorite Monica song since obviously you're a fan angel mine tastes
1:11.8	I love that song good choice good choice
1:13.9	I just remember the boy I liked and the fact that he didn't like me as much as he should have and
1:30.1	How important that song was to explaining to myself what was wrong with who he was
1:37.6	In
1:39.4	22 there are three black women running to be governor from a major party. There's your lot of flowers in Alabama
1:45.3	Deirdre DeGiro in Iowa and Stacey Abrams in Georgia if any one of them becomes governor
1:50.5	They will have broken through hundreds of years of history because no black woman has ever been elected governor in the United States
1:57.6	And today I'm asking why not of the three Abrams is most likely to win
2:03.6	She's gonna lay out her vision for governing and what it would mean for a black woman to win in the deep South
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