News & Observer: “A better ground game. An earlier start. A more inclusive approach. A willingness to listen.
Those are some of the things Democrats say they need if they are to duplicate their Georgia counterparts’ electoral success in North Carolina. What they don’t need, they say, is a single figure who can lead them to victory.
“Folks talk about: ‘We just need the Georgia plan. We need a Stacey Abrams,’” said Kara Hollingsworth, a partner at a national firm that works to elect Black women. “You actually have those people in your state who have been pushing for a long time to be bolder and move away from the formulaic assumptions of how you win elections. And there’s been resistance to it.”…“We are taking a page from Stacey Abrams’ playbook, which I read the day after Georgia,” said Democratic state Sen. Jeff Jackson, who announced his candidacy for the U.S. Senate earlier this week. “We are going to start organizing much sooner than any U.S. Senate campaign has at any point in our state.””