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25.01.2022 / 05:51

David Perdue tests positive for COVID-19, will undergo quarantine campaign says

ATLANTA - Former U.S. Senator and Georgia Republican gubernatorial candidate David Perdue has tested positive for COVID-19, according to a representative from his campaign.Perdue tested positive Monday afternoon during routine COVID testing, his campaign said in a statement to FOX 5."He is vaccinated and boosted. Perdue doesn’t have a fever and isn’t experiencing symptoms at this time.

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Georgia’s Stacey Abrams to join faculty at Howard University

Stacey Abrams, Democratic gubernatorial candidate for Georgia, departs after speaking during an election night rally in Atlanta, Georgia, US, on Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022.

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Stacey Abrams adds producer to her resume with book deal

LOS ANGELES – Stacey Abrams' new political thriller was snapped up for a small-screen adaptation.

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3 romance novels by Stacey Abrams to be reissued

NEW YORK – Nothing like a prominent life in public service to help your other career as a romance novelist.

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Democrats point to Georgia in push for new elections law

WASHINGTON – Senate Democrats are spotlighting Georgia as they build their case for a broad overhaul of U.S. election law, arguing the new voting rules in the state are emblematic of Republican measures across the country that threaten access to the polls.

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Georgia's Abrams navigates voting law fight with eye on 2022

ATLANTA – President Joe Biden called Georgia's new voting law an “atrocity.” A leading Black bishop called for a national boycott of companies headquartered in the state. But when Stacey Abrams, the state’s well-known voting rights advocate, is asked about the law that has set much of her party on fire, she is critical but measured.

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AP Interview: Stacey Abrams on voting rights, her next move

ATLANTA – Georgia is at the forefront of the partisan fight over voting rights and election law.

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New Jersey becomes latest state to offer early in-person voting

TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey has become the latest state to enact a law allowing early in-person voting.Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy signed the legislation Tuesday alongside Georgia’s Stacey Abrams.

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Biden to meet with Stacey Abrams on trip to Georgia

During his visit to Atlanta on Friday, President Joe Biden will meet with former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who has been widely credited with helping flip the former Republican stronghold blue.

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Critics: GOP measures target Black voter turnout in Georgia

ATLANTA – Fueled by Black turnout, Democrats scored stunning wins in Georgia in the presidential and U.S. Senate races. Now, Republicans are trying to make sure it doesn't happen again.

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Stacey Abrams nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

ATLANTA - Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.Abrams, who faced disappointments including her own narrow defeat to be Georgia's governor in 2018, was credited with laying the organizational groundwork that helped Democrats capture the state’s two Senate seats.

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Georgia's GOP governor under fire after US Senate losses

ATLANTA – Even though he wasn’t on the ballot, Republican Gov. Brian Kemp has been painfully bruised by the 2020 elections.

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Joe Biden wins Georgia, flipping the state for Democrats

WASHINGTON – Joe Biden has won Georgia and its 16 electoral votes, an extraordinary victory for Democrats who pushed to expand their electoral map through the Sun Belt.The win by Biden pads his Electoral College margin of victory over President Donald Trump. Biden was declared the winner of the presidential election on Nov.

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Stacey Abrams raises millions for Democrats in Georgia Senate runoff

Stacey Abrams poses for a picture, after her speech at the National Press Club Headliners Luncheon in Washington, D.C. (Cheriss May/NurPhoto via Getty Images)ATLANTA - Stacey Abrams says she and her organization Fair Fight have raised millions since Friday to help Democrats in their attempt to win Georgia's two Senate runoff elections.The one-time candidate for Georgia governor tweeted Monday morning that her group has raised $6 million so far for the campaigns of Democratic challengers Jon Ossoff and the Rev.

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Stacey Abrams credited for boosting Democrats in Georgia

ATLANTA – Stacey Abrams spent years working to convince political power players that Georgia is a genuine two-party battleground, a Deep South state where the left could compete if it organized Black voters, other sporadic voters and stopped apologizing for being Democrats.She was right.President-elect Joe Biden is on track to become the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state in nearly three decades. The state's two U.S.

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Stacey Abrams praised for Georgia voter turnout efforts as presidential election remains close

ATLANTA, GA - APRIL 21, 2018: Gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, who defeated Stacey Evans for the democratic nomination in Georgia's governor's race. (Photograph by Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images) ATLANTA - In 2018, then gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams realized her fight to become Georgia's governor had ended, but her efforts to increase statewide voter participation and defeat voter suppression were only just beginning. Ever since it's been a whirlwind for the former Democratic gubernatorial nominee.

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New this week: Alicia Keys, 'Filthy Rich' and the Emmys

premiering Friday on Amazon Prime. The film, the latest in a rush of pre-election documentaries on the U.S.

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Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay and More Call for Urgent Reform: "Our Country Is in a Moment of Reckoning"

Oprah Winfrey continued to have an open conversation with black artists and activists on Wednesday aimed at determining how America can help eradicate systemic inequality and racism. Winfrey's two-night conversation, called "Where Do We Go From Here?", featuring director Ava DuVernay, former U.S.

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Oprah Winfrey, Ava DuVernay, Stacey Abrams Call for Systemic Change Amid Events "That Demand Action"

"We find ourselves on a precipice, on a tipping point," Oprah Winfrey said as she opened a conversation with black artists and activists on Tuesday aimed at determining how America can funnel the rage and protests of recent weeks into action to eradicate systemic inequality and racism. Following the May 25 killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man who pleaded for air as a Minnesota police officer kneeled on his neck, as well as of Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery and ensuing protests nationwide, Winfrey's two-night conversation, called "Where Do We Go From Here?", featured director Ava DuVernay, former U.S.

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Democrats look to counter GOP vote-by-mail fraud claims

WASHINGTON – Democrats are mounting a new effort to push back against a well-funded Republican campaign that seeks to undermine public confidence in mail-in-voting, which President Donald Trump has said, without offering proof, will lead to election fraud. Fair Fight, an organization led by former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, has joined forces with Priorities USA, the largest Democratic outside group, and American Bridge, the party’s opposition research clearinghouse, to form a new effort called Voter Suppression Watch.

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Atlanta is home to 2 potential contenders for Biden's VP

ATLANTA – Neither public rivals nor personal friends, Keisha Lance Bottoms and Stacey Abrams spent years climbing parallel ladders at Atlanta City Hall and the Georgia Capitol.

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Soul Controllers: 10 Women DJs You Should Know and Groove To

It’s been a long time coming and I may get some pushback, but right now, women are certainly running things in a major way. From Stacey Abrams impressively making a claim to become Joe Biden’s running mate to BIND London designing fashion for Black women of all hair types to four Black artists occupying the top two spots on the Billboard Hot 100 — Black Queen Energy is live and in full effect for 2020.

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Stacey Abrams endorses candidates in 7 US Senate contests

COLUMBIA, S.C. – Alongside discussions of her own national political ambitions, former Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams is wading into elections outside her home state, endorsing the campaigns of seven Democrats vying for U.S. Senate seats.

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Q&A: Stacey Abrams is ready to serve but not on top court

ATLANTA – Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams says she's ready to serve presidential candidate Joe Biden in whatever capacity he needs, as long as he doesn't want to put her on the Supreme Court.

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5 things to know today - that aren't about the virus

Your daily look at nonvirus stories in the news:

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Stacey Abrams Would Say Yes To A Joe Biden VP Offer: ‘I’d Like To Restore Dignity Soul’ Of America

Former Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is one of the names on everyone’s lips after presumed Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden announced that he wanted a female running mate. Abrams, 46, who served in the Georgia House of Representatives from 2007 to 2017, said on the April 22 episode of The View that she would gladly accept the position, should Biden ask.

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