The Georgia Democrat announced she does not believe serving in the Senate would be “the best role for me in this battle for our nation’s future.”
Georgia’s Stacey Abrams, a rising star in the Democratic Party, officially ruled out running for Senate in 2020 but left the door open for a White House bid—either as president or vice president.
“Public service has been a calling for me as long as I can remember,” Abrams said in a Twitter video on Tuesday morning.
“The Senate provides a singular platform from which to address the issues of access to justice, economic security, health care and restoring the integrity of our nation’s democracy,” she said. “However, I am announcing today that I will not be a candidate for the United States Senate.”
It had been widely speculated that Abrams would run for Senate after she lost Georgia’s gubernatorial election during the 2018 midterms. Her face-off against Republican Brian Kemp became one of the most closely watched races of the election cycle and garnered the attention of former President Barack Obama, 2020 candidate Joe Biden, Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities.
