ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN)As the nation eyes Georgia with its pair of upcoming US Senate runoffs, a victory for Democrats could hinge on the same Black women who helped flip the state blue in the presidential election.
Leadership from Stacey Abrams, Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, LaTosha Brown, Nse Ufot and a reliable force of Black female voters who overwhelming voted for President-elect Joe Biden will remain critical to Democrats’ chances of gaining control of the US Senate on January 5.
The runoff includes a race between Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat, and a matchup with GOP Sen. David Perdue and Democratic challenger Jon Ossoff.
Black female leaders and organizers say years of voter registration drives at churches and community events, and knocking on doors in Black and Latino neighborhoods paid off when Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris won Georgia.
And they believe they can do it again.
In the next six weeks, Black women said they will use those same strategies in addition to reaching voters who sat out of the general election to help Warnock and Ossoff win their races.
“We’ve done it before and we will do it again,” said Ufot, CEO of the New Georgia Project, a nonpartisan voter registration group founded by Abrams in 2014. “Never before in my lifetime have Georgia voters been more important to the state of this nation.” See full story at https://www.cnn.com/2020/11/21/politics/black-women-crucial-georgia-democrats/index.html?fbclid=IwAR0E2YXtU4TGYv1Lu4cB171Cw1HV_Hp8Sn4pPlW7IBiJ6pijDpaI2k5KMZo
