As Joe Biden opened a narrow lead in Georgia on Thursday, Democrats across the country couldn’t quite believe it was happening.
But Stacey Abrams and a network of activists had been planning for the moment for nearly a decade.
The people leading the effort to flip the state — a group composed of Black female elected officials, voting rights advocates and community organizers — understood why Democrats had often fallen short in the South the past decade. Topping the list of reasons: the region’s long-running conservative bent, voter suppression tactics by the right and the failure by Democrats to mount a sustained voter outreach program.
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