'I talk about power because you're not supposed to': Why staceyabrams still wants to be president
Abrams didn’t get into the specifics of when she might run, but as she did in 2017 — when she first told a reporter she wanted to be president in the future — Abrams is stating her ambitions plainly and openly.
Abrams stands out because she does a few things that often aren’t found in combination: She thinks exhaustively about her core principles and her big decisions; is disciplined and strategic; is willing to take big risks and talks openly about her reasons for doing so. Story continuesAnd it goes for her decision to talk openly about wanting to be president. It’s part of her mission to create new archetypes for women of color and other minorities, who she said are often conditioned to think they shouldn’t have lofty ambitions and often shrink back.
Abrams said there have been few “actual direct examples” for her to look up to in her own life. “And so I’ve spent my life trying to create these examples and exemplars of behavior,” she said. Yet despite stating her intent openly, Abrams was often overshadowed in the 2018 national political conversation — even among Democrats and progressives — by Beto O’Rourke, a congressman who ran for the U.S. Senate in Texas against Sen. Ted Cruz, and also lost. Part of the reason that celebrities like Beyoncé and LeBron James took notice of O’Rourke was that he was running against Cruz, who is uniquely reviled by Democrats, and even some Republicans.
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