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The lovely and talented Stacey Abrams
Posted on 04/22/2020 7:39:24 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
CBS This Morning anchor and Barack Obama donor Gayle King gushed over Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams on Tuesday morning, saying the former state legislator and failed gubernatorial candidate is "extremely qualified" to be vice president of the United States.
Abrams is openly lobbying to serve as Joe Biden's running mate come November, despite never being elected to any office beyond the state legislature. As she touted her voting rights work and "competence and skills and willingness to serve," King cut in to praise her as ready to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
"That's a great nuts and bolts answer because everybody knows you're extremely qualified," King said. "I'm looking for something about Stacey Abrams the person. Why is she a good choice and have you had any talks at all with the Biden team?"
Abrams said she had communicated with the Biden team on improving voting infrastructure. She added that she would continue to focus on election reform, whether she is tapped as his running mate or not.
King has not let her role as a journalist stop her from publicly championing her friends within Democratic and liberal circles, such as Sen. Cory Booker (D., N.J.), Barack and Michelle Obama, and Oprah Winfrey. She is so close with Booker that she joked in 2012 that "no boinking" had occurred when the two hung out for an evening. She also donated $35,800 to the Obama Victory Fund in 2011 before she joined CBS News that same year.
She admitted in a Washington Post profile last year that she would not betray one of her friendships to get a scoop. For instance, she said she knew Booker would run for president before he officially announced it, but she didn't break the story. King vacationed in 2017 with the Obamas, but she has claimed that her recreational trips were "not political" and thus not unethical.
Abrams has never held a position higher than House minority leader in the Georgia legislature, but she frequently expresses eagerness to run on the 2020 presidential ticket. She became a national Democratic star after her narrow loss in the 2018 Georgia governor's race, which she has blamed on disputed claims of voter suppression.
She told Elle magazine in an article published April 15 that her credentials for vice president included "25 years in independent study of foreign policy."
Outside of her political career, Abrams is a noted romance novelist, publishing several books under the pen name "Selena Montgomery." CBS is currently adapting one of her novels, Never Tell, into a TV drama.
Biden has pledged to choose a woman as his running mate. He's also reportedly considering Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer (D.) and Sens. Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.), Kamala Harris (D., Calif.), and Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.), among others.
The lovely and talented Stacey Abrams
Loudmouthed, sore loser, racist, ignorant—yes extraordinarily qualified for the Demonrat ticket.
She’ll need a piano case for burial. Maybe a clear lid as well, just like Lenin.
She is fat, angry, black, female, defiant. Sure. Super qualified.
Stacey Abrans getting serious
The only people qualified to be Vice President are those qualified to be President.
Ahole Gayle King actually said this with a straight face?
Frickin’ unbelievable!
-PJ
I doubt Biden would choose someone he would not dare sniff or touch; not even with a ten-foot pole.
The fact that she is even mentioned for VP shows the rapid decline of the USA.
Note she fills the entire chair. Whooa. If this hippo were 1" wider, she wouldn't fit in the flipping chair. Gak...blap~
This will be parroted by every MSM outlet once Biden is told to select her.
Joe Biden and Stacey Abrams meet to discuss 2020 plans
March 15, 2019 Associated Press
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/joe-biden-and-stacey-abrams-meet-to-discuss-2020-plans-2019-03-15
Stacey Abrams is rumored to be a popular vice presidential pick in 2020
ATLANTA (AP) — Former Vice President Joe Biden and Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams met privately Thursday in Washington, bringing together two starkly different faces of their party as they both weigh their political futures.
Biden, 76, who served as President Barack Obama’s closest adviser, is on the cusp of deciding whether he’ll make his third run for the presidency. Abrams, 45, narrowly lost the Georgia governor’s race last November. She is being heavily recruited to run for the Senate in 2020, but she’s not ruled out making a presidential bid herself. She also could be considered as a vice presidential running mate.
A person close to Abrams confirmed the meeting, saying it was set at Biden’s request.
Biden and Abrams represent starkly different identities for a Democratic Party in flux, with one an aging white man who is the consummate Washington politician and the other an up-and-coming black woman from Generation X who has become a national political celebrity even in defeat. Her star climbed higher when she delivered the Democratic response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address last month.
If Abrams doesn’t run or doesn’t win the Democratic nomination, she could be a vice presidential pick, especially if Biden or another white candidate won the nomination. There is wide agreement across the Democratic spectrum that the party will require a 2020 ticket with some racial and gender balance.
Outside of her political career, Abrams is a noted romance novelist, publishing several books under the pen name "Selena Montgomery." CBS is currently adapting one of her novels, Never Tell, into a TV drama.
Amazon is a crazy place:
[(Deception)] [By (author) Selena Montgomery] published on (June, 2009) Paperback – June 16, 1964
See all formats and editions
Paperback
$894.90
2 Used from $982.90
1 New from $894.90
A thousand dollars for a crummy paperback?
Using ‘King-logic’, I’m qualified to be a rocket-scientist.
She has many gifts. (Drinking word from the virus conference)
Selena Montgomery?
NANCY PELOSI HAS FOUND HER TRUE LOVE
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