Stacey Abrams is the Democrats self-made nightmare as she hints at another election bid

Democrats created a monster in Stacey Abrams — and years after she first burst into the national political spotlight, she continues to punish them for doing so.Abrams, the perennial Georgia gubernatorial candidate, is reportedly mulling yet another campaign for the office in 2026, when the term-limited Republican Gov.Brian Kemp must depart.She’s teased such a run for months, declaring that “all options are on the table,” insisting she’d “look at all the opportunities” and “evaluate” how she could “best serve.”Now, as she continues to drop hints, Peach State Democrats worry that yet another Abrams attempt at the governor’s mansion would consign them to yet another defeat.“She’s run twice, and that’s enough to convince me she won’t win” a general election, Jimmy Johnson, former chair of the Appling County Democratic Committee, told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution last week.“Can some other Democrat win? Yes.”“Abrams is great, but she missed the train,” said Marilyn Langford, another Democratic district official.The Journal-Constitution itself piled on, as top political reporter Greg Bluestein editorialized that Abrams’ “unabashed liberal platform and relentless GOP attacks have taken a toll on the swing voters who help decide Georgia races.”“Her rematch against Kemp in 2022 ended in a resounding defeat, thanks partly to split-ticket voters who backed [Sen.

Raphael] Warnock but rejected her,” Bluestein noted.Put it all together and you can’t miss the painful — or, for Republicans, painfully delicious — truth: Abrams can’t lose a Democratic primary, but can’t win a general election.“Every Georgia Democrat is scared to death Abrams runs again because they know they can’t beat her in the primary,” said Cody Hall, an adviser to Kemp.“But she’s also probably their worst candidate in the general.”One might pity the Democrats and their media allies, were this quandary not entirely of their own making...