After her campaign and leadership committee raised more than $105 million in 2022, Abrams’s campaign still ended more than $1 million in debt.
It is moot now, but Georgians had good reason to doubt that former gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams would have been able to keep her promise to implement a slew of new policy initiatives without increasing state taxes. According to Axios, we now know that the Abrams campaign and leadership committee raised more than $105 million combined and still ended up owing more than $1 million in debt to vendors.
It’s not just that Abrams lost, it’s that she lost by 7.5 percentage points after receiving more donor money than almost any other gubernatorial candidate in the country in history. (A few other candidates have spent more, but they’ve largely been self-financing billionaires.)
In other news, Abrams’s book, Level Up: Rise Above the Hidden Forces Holding Your Business Back, is now just $12.99 on Amazon.