“Do I hold it as an ambition? Absolutely,” Abrams said on “CBS Sunday Morning.”
Rising stars in American politics generally deflect questions about White House ambitions, but Abrams argued being open about it can help younger people who may not see themselves in positions of power. The 47-year-old Georgia Democrat told interviewer Erin Moriarty that she feels a duty to say she wants to run — as an instance to every young woman and person of color.
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“Again, it’s about you cannot have those things you refuse to dream of,” Abrams said.
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The Yale Law School-educated attorney has been doing the rounds selling her new novel, the legal thriller “While Justice Sleeps.” Abrams has also written eight romance novels using the pen name Selena Montgomery.
After almost losing a race in 2018 to become Georgia governor, her name hovered as an inherent vice-presidential candidate for Joe Biden last year and some expect her to be in the mix for governor again in 2022.
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In 2018, Abrams lost to Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp in one of the most closely watched gubernatorial races in the country that year. Since then, she focused on voting rights and ballot access, earning widespread credit in Democratic circles for helping flip both of the Peach State's Senate seats in early 2021. Biden said in May that she "can be anything she wants to be, from whatever she chooses to president."
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Many credited Abrams’ works in assisting to overturn Georgia for the Democrats in last year’s presidential election, as Biden became the first Democrat to carry the state since Bill Clinton won it in 1992.
Abrams then added in the push to expand voter turnout in the Peach State for a January runoff election that sent two Democrats to the Senate. Abrams told CBS she saw a “through line” with that election and the Jan. 6 siege on the U.S. Capitol, where some displayed Confederate flags.
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“That flag has always been a declaration of domestic terrorism against communities they thought were not worthy of being able to call themselves citizens,” Abrams said.
When asked about her busy professional life, Abrams said her last relationship ended in part because of her full schedule and very public life.
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But she said she hoped to meet someone who wouldn’t look at those issues as relationship disqualifiers.
“Yes. It’s nice to like somebody and to have someone like you,” she said. “I wrote a lot of books about it.”
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