Why Is This Happening? Discussing the Democratic Response with Stacey Abrams

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In this week's WITHpod episode, Chris Hayes sat down with Stacey Abrams in a live recorded session. Will she run for Senate? What about a presidential run in 2020? “I don’t think you say no to anything,” she told Hayes. Listen and full transcript:

It’s our second live edition of WITHpod, featuring special guest Stacey Abrams! Just a heads up, this is one of those episodes that is going to make you laugh out loud in public. A lot.

You might remember, or maybe you don't 'cause it was kinda forgettable, so I'll remind you. Back in February of 2017 after the president of the United States was inaugurated, Donald Trump, who's our current President. Real shocker in this crowd. I thought that was gonna be applause line, dammit. And that I think was a very ascendent view for a long time. Now, there's another view. And it's the view that I think overtook that one. Which is a view that in a changing and dynamic country, there is the space for a progressive multiracial majority that brings new voters into the fold. That if you activate ...

Stacey Abrams had this theory, we went down, we shot a package with her that we called the New Georgia Math. That was about this theory. And lo and behold, she had a chance to put it into practice when she was nominated to be the gubernatorial candidate in Georgia in 2018. And here is the fascinating thing about how that worked out. She lost. You should know that. But she lost by a very narrow margin, 55,000 votes in what was a very contested election for reasons she'll explain later.

CHRIS HAYES: I wanna talk about your life, your trajectory. But I wanna start with your last gig, publicly. You gave the response to the State of the Union.CHRIS HAYES: And the thing that's funny about that is that's like when you're in the locker room before the game and the coach comes in the playhouse and says, you get to guard Michael Jordan tonight.CHRIS HAYES: 'Cause it's like, well thank you for the vote of confidence, but that's a tough assignment.

CHRIS HAYES: Well, 'cause obviously there's these sort of low light reels of people and probably most infamously Marco Rubio, which is a clip that we literally play any chance we get. Like even B roll, it'd be like, Marco Rubio introduce a bill and it's like ... Just because, why not? Did you study the kind of meme-able iconic moments?

CHRIS HAYES: You told a great story in that speech about your family. And you come from a really fascinating background, you're one of five?STACEY ABRAMS: So I grew up on Gulfport, Mississippi. Who's from Gulfport?CHRIS HAYES: I've heard of it.STACEY ABRAMS: They are.

 

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Doesn’t look like running is working she may want to try the south beach approach

Loved conversation with stacey abrams!!!!!!

Senate seat please..

Brown/Abrams 2020 blue wave

Fake news......

Who’s going to be her running mate...the hamburglar?

No to you.

staceyabrams has no shot winning a state-wide Election in Georgia Too Liberal for moderates DemocratsAreDangerous

I'm sure she doesn't run for anything. Except maybe a burger

LSD?

Is she going to try to cheat again, if she does?

Lay off the Twinkies, baby.

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Who?

Where does she stand on the botch abortion murders?

Why aren’t you covering this?

rochelleriley The first true Black American President Woman at that she gets my vote all day!!!

In this weeks nut job liberal episode.

Or just maybe Kamala's running mate.

That seems to be a thing nowadays. If you lose an election, you're good enough to run for president.

Surprised they didn't ask her to prepare a CPAC rebuddle.

She alwasy looks hungry....

“I don’t think you say no to anything,” she told Hayes. Especially a trip to the buffet.

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