In today's Rolling Stone:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...s-census-voting-rights-vice-president-953173/
She’s being diplomatic: Before Joe Biden got in the race, advisers to his campaign publicly floated the idea that he and Abrams might announce a joint ticket even before primary voting began. Abrams swatted down that report. (At the time, she was still considering her own run for president.) Biden isn’t the only one who has seemed interested: Bernie Sanders praised her abilities; Elizabeth Warren — who campaigned for Abrams in 2018 — said she’s open to naming a female VP; Pete Buttigieg met with Abrams privately and phone-banked for Fair Fight Action, stoking speculation he might tap her as a potential running mate.
And why not? Abrams is a young, charismatic Democrat from a potentially flippable state, a prodigious fundraiser, a captivating speaker. She is also black, like a large portion of the Democratic base (and unlike any of the leading candidates), with a record of motivating voters of all races. Latino and Asian-Pacific Islander turnout tripled when she ran for governor, and she got the highest level of support from white voters of any Democrat in Georgia since Bill Clinton.
She has an overachiever’s résumé — a graduate of Yale Law, a college professor, co-founder of a financial-services firm, bestselling author — but the personality of someone you’d actually want to hang out with. She’ll rap with you about her favorite Star Trek episodes, or country music (Dolly Parton and Earl Thomas Conley are favorites), or provide a detailed explanation of why the platypus is her favorite animal (“It is such an odd creature, makes no sense — it’s both mammalian and reptilian”).
Her team of aides address her as “Leader” — a holdover from her days as minority leader in the Statehouse but one that sounds quasi-cultish because of staffers’ obvious affection for her. She inspires a similar reaction in strangers: After the 2018 election, Abrams took her first vacation in years, to Turks and Caicos. “I had to stay inside because there were a lot of people that kept trying to hug me,” she says.
She even won over Republicans she worked with during her time in the Statehouse. In 2011, one GOP appointee predicted Abrams would be president someday: “Once she puts her mind to something, there is really nothing she can’t do.” Abrams herself has come around to that idea, answering, when she was asked recently if she saw herself in the White House within the next 20 years: “I do.”
So, of course potential Democratic nominees want her.
Describe her that way and I want to leave my wife for her!!!