On July 27, former House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams (D) phoned into the podcast Hellbent to talk about her 2018 gubernatorial campaign. During the interview, she hit on a central theme in the Democratic primary: What types of voters do Democrats need to win in 2018? The Abrams theory is that Democrats should try to
This week’s Courier Herald column: Governor Nathan Deal didn’t spend his Fourth of July weekend on a closed public beach because he and the state legislature didn’t pass a budget. That was Governor Chris Christie of New Jersey. Both Georgia and New Jersey have fiscal years that begin on July 1st. As the new year
Casey Cagle (R), the lieutenant governor and 2018 gubernatorial hopeful, has good news in the midst of the summer meeting of the Georgia Sheriff’s Association: He has been endorsed by 58 current and former sheriffs across Georgia. Here are a few excerpts from the press release announcing the endorsements: You simply don’t receive such widespread
Since the 2016 election, there has been a lot of talk about the rural white voters who used to vote for Democrats but were won over by Republicans in recent years. According to the narrative, Republican politicians, particularly those in the same tough-talking vein as Donald Trump, found how to connect with working class white
Now that the first campaign finance filing deadline has passed, we have a better idea of what each of the six gubernatorial campaigns will look like from a fundraising standpoint. On the Republican side, the reports confirmed the conventional wisdom that state capitol veteran Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle will be the top fundraiser in the
This week’s Courier Herald column. You can read the other columns in this series by following this link. For the past weeks, this column has taken a look at the five political and economic regions that form the governing coalitions of Georgia politics. This was an attempt to help readers to understand how current
State Senator and 2018 gubernatorial hopeful Michael Williams (R) spoke at a Tea Party event at the Gainesville Civic Center on Thursday night. The event did not draw a large crowd, which was possibly due to the nasty weather, but Williams stuck around to deliver what will probably be his campaign stump speech at GOP
Donald Trump has entered the 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary. Well kind of. State Senator Michael Williams announced his run on Thursday. And it looks like he will base a large part of his run on his connection with the man on Pennsylvania Avenue. Michael Williams is someone who supported Donald Trump before it was socially acceptable
Just days after state Rep. Stacey Evans announced she would be running in the Democratic gubernatorial primary, another major Georgia Democrat has announced his 2018 plans. Jason Carter, the 2014 Democratic nominee, will not be pursuing another run. According to the AJC, Carter is planning on spending more time running the Carter Center and being a
Let’s get the important details out of the way: the BBQ will come from Dunbar’s. And on June 3 you can sample said que as Stacey Abrams holds the first public event in her nascent gubernatorial bid. Starting in Albany is full of significance. Clinton secured 68.5% of the vote against Trump. Dougherty County is
