{"id":101266,"date":"2022-08-27T13:41:54","date_gmt":"2022-08-27T13:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=101266"},"modified":"2022-08-27T13:41:57","modified_gmt":"2022-08-27T13:41:57","slug":"abrams-georgia-democrats-look-to-prove-2020-wasnt-fluke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=101266","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Abrams, Georgia Democrats look to prove 2020 wasn\u2019t \u2018fluke\u2019&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-biden-georgia-b318e52eb214685e8b8da43d7e46872f\" target=\"_blank\">AP<\/a>: &#8220;Four years ago, Georgia Democrats had a contested primary for governor because the party old guard didn\u2019t believe in Stacey Abrams. She blew away the elders\u2019 alternative and, in a close general election loss, established herself as de facto party boss in a newfound battleground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That previewed 2020, when Joe Biden put Georgia in Democrats\u2019 presidential column for the first time in 28 years, while Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff captured two Senate seats in early 2021 to give Democrats control on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now Abrams and Warnock top the Democratic ticket together for the first time as the party tries to replicate its success in a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/2022-midterm-elections\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tough midterm election landscape<\/a>. The outcome will again help determine Senate control in Washington and whether Republicans continue to dominate state government in Georgia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re putting in the work to show everyone across the country that 2020 was not a fluke,\u201d said Democratic Chair Nikema Williams ahead of the party\u2019s convention Saturday.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AP: &#8220;Four years ago, Georgia Democrats had a contested primary for governor because the party old guard didn\u2019t believe in Stacey Abrams. She blew away the elders\u2019 alternative and, in a close general election loss, established herself as de facto party boss in a newfound battleground. That previewed 2020, when Joe Biden put Georgia in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newsstory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=101266"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101267,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101266\/revisions\/101267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=101266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=101266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=101266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}