{"id":8803,"date":"2026-01-09T11:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8803"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:47:08","slug":"democrat-stacey-abrams-sits-out-2026-georgia-governor-race-after-two-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/?p=8803","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Stacey Abrams Sits Out 2026 Georgia Governor Race After Two Losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams announced she will not run for governor in 2026, ending speculation about a potential third bid for the office after back-to-back losses to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/after-two-straight-losses-democrat-stacey-abrams-sits-out-2026-race-georgia-governor\">reported<\/a> by\u00a0 Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>Abrams, a former Democratic leader in the Georgia state legislature and a nationally known voting-rights advocate, said she will instead focus her efforts on what she described as opposing what she views as a national shift toward authoritarianism under President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Americans are in pain, but they are ready to act, and now is the moment to reconnect to what is at stake and what is possible,\u201d Abrams said in a statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8801\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8801\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8801\" src=\"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1563-1-297x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1563-1-297x300.jpeg 297w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1563-1-1012x1024.jpeg 1012w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1563-1-768x777.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1563-1-80x80.jpeg 80w, https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IMG_1563-1.jpeg 1193w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 297px) 100vw, 297px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-8801\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshot<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Democratic Georgia gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams announced she will not run for governor in 2026, ending speculation about a potential third bid for the office after back-to-back losses to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp,&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8803"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8804,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8803\/revisions\/8804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/originaltastex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}