NEW: Stacey Abrams Hints At Another Run For Office

Two-time failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams is refusing to rule out yet another run for office. The news reportedly has Democratic Party insiders spooked, as they fear yet another failed bid will set them back in battleground Georgia.

During a recent interview with NPR, Abrams was asked whether she would consider yet another run for office. “I truly have not made any decisions and that is in part because there’s an urgency to 2025 that we cannot ignore. My focus right now is on how do we ensure that we have free and fair elections in 2026? There’s a lot of hope being pinned on the ’26 midterms,” she said.

The latest interview follows a separate conversation with Drew Barrymore in late 2023. When asked about her future in the political arena, Abrams vowed that she will eventually be back. “I will likely run again,” Abrams said. “If at first you don’t succeed, try try again. If it doesn’t work, you try again.”

Abrams previously ran for governor of Georgia in 2018 and 2022, losing to current Governor Brian Kemp on both occasions. She vehemently fought back against her loss in 2018, claiming that she had been the victim of “voter suppression.” At one point, she referred to herself as the duly elected governor of the Peach State anyway.

Starting in 2018, she founded Fair Fight Action, an organization aimed at combatting the alleged “voter suppression,” her term for purging inactive voters from rolls, voter ID requirements and the state’s “exact match” voter registration system, which flagged applications for discrepancies. The organization received tens-of-millions of dollars in funding and is largely credited with flipping Georgia blue in 2020, along with both of the state’s Senate seats.

The organization has been the subject of numerous controversies, however. Fair Fight Action paid $9.4 million in 2019 and 2020 to Lawrence & Bundy, a law firm led by Allegra Lawrence-Hardy, Abrams’ close friend and campaign chairwoman, for a largely unsuccessful voting rights lawsuit against the state. Legal fees for the case topped $39 million in total between 2019 and 2021.

By 2024, Fair Fight Action faced financial difficulties, with $2.5 million in debt and only $1.9 million cash on hand, leading to layoffs of 75 percent of its staff. The drain of finances followed significant spending on legal fees in a number of cases against the state and election integrity organizations.

In January 2025, the New Georgia Project, another organization founded by Stacey Abrams, admitted to illegally campaigning for Abrams and other Democrats during the 2018 elections by paying for fliers and door-to-door canvassers. The group failed to register as a political committee with the state, violating election laws. As a result, the New Georgia Project and its sister group, New Georgia Project Action Fund, agreed to pay approximately $300,000 in penalties, with $150,000 paid in 2025 and the remainder due in 2026.

The questionable conduct of Abrams’ organizations and her past failures as a candidate reportedly have Georgia Democrats panicked as they seek to hold onto the state’s Senate seat held by Democrat incumbent Jon Ossoff in 2026. Greg Bluestein of the Atlanta Journal Constitution quoted multiple Democrats who feared another Abrams run would further sink the party’s reputation in the state.

“Interviews with more than three dozen Democratic officials, party leaders and activists suggest she may not have the same unified support she enjoyed after her first defeat to Kemp in 2018,” Bluestein reported.

Some of those quoted in the story spoke on the condition of anonymity while others were more direct. “I do believe there might be another charismatic Democrat that can take us all the way in 2026,” said Monroe County Democratic Party chair Yvonne Stuart.