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Capehart

Why Stacey Abrams could break Georgia's 'Gone with the Wind' stereotype

Capehart

The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2018

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

Stacey Abrams could be the first African American governor of Georgia and the first black woman governor in the United States. With midterms in a week, we're rerunning her interview from Sept. 2017 to reacquaint you with the woman who could make history.

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0:16.5

I'm

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I'm Jonathan Kapart, and welcome to Cape Up.

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A week from today, Stacey Abrams could make history.

0:31.0

She could become the first African American governor of Georgia and she could be the first

0:35.6

black woman governor ever in the United States.

0:39.0

Listen to this conversation I had a

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a she did in May by 50 percentage points.

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And why does Abrams think she is the one

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to shatter the Gone With The Wind reputation of Georgia?

0:58.2

Find out her game plan for victory right now.

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Stacy Abrams, thank you very much for being on the podcast. Thank you for having me.

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I'm excited. Okay, so, you know, when I mentioned in our morning meeting that you know i was doing

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this podcast interview with stacey aprons

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uh... you know she's running for governor of georgia one person in the

1:20.2

meeting said she's not going to win of Of course. But here's the thing. People

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think I'm not going to win because they're still remembering the Georgia

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of gone with the wind or maybe they're conflating it with Selma. They still

1:31.8

think of Georgia as a very different place.

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