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Oprah Winfrey Is Supporting Stacey Abrams Heading Into Midterm Elections
Democrats Turn To Obama To Rescue Them From A Midterm Shellacking
Oprah Winfrey is using her star power to help fellow Black woman and Fair Fight founder Stacey Abrams as she makes her second run for Georgia gover- nor.
NBC News reports the former talk show host appeared in a pre- recorded chat with Abrams. Winfrey said she believes the Georgia Democratic candidate has a “calling to want people to be able to do better, to live better and to thrive in their lives.”
The two Black women met less than a month before the Georgia gubernatorial election between Abrams and current Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp. The meeting also came during the first week of early voting in the state where more than 430,000 people have already filled out a ballot.
Winfrey also visited the Peach State in 2018, knocking on doors during the first election matchup
OPRAH WINFREY AND STACEY ABRAMS
Barack Obama joked at a campaign rally in Milwaukee over the weekend that the state’s Democratic governor — Tony Evers, the bespectacled one-time science teacher mired in a neck-and-neck race for a second term had “more of a Clark Kent” than a Super- man vibe.
“But don’t let the glasses fool you,” Obama said, chuckling.
If anyone’s looking to be rescued in this final stretch be- fore the midterms, it’s the Dem- ocratic Party. And it’s turning, yet again, to the 44th president to save them from freefall.
Nobody is more in demand than Obama. His team was in-
undated with requests to speak, with Democrats imploring him to cut brief get-out-the-vote videos and congressional lead- ers leaning on him to headline fundraisers with them.
Obama hit a trio of battle- ground states over two days to rally the base for Senate and gu- bernatorial hopefuls in tough races. On Tuesday, he went to Nevada to do the same, before heading to Phoenix on Wednes- day and then Pennsylvania alongside Biden on the final weekend before Election Day.
"We have to get people to come out for the Mid-term, if not, we will lose some key Sen- ate seats, stated Obama.
between Kemp and Abrams. Kemp won, but it was later deter- mined that he purged more than 300,000 voters from state voter rolls.
During the chat Abrams out- lined her platform for Georgia which includes expanding Medi- caid health insurance, increasing pay for educators, improving af-
fordable housing, and assisting small Black and minority busi- nesses.
“As the governor, my mission is to make sure that everyone can do well that they have education, health care, and housing and the ability to make a good living and take care of themselves,” Abrams said.
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