Summary of Greg Bluestein's Flipped

By IRB Media

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#1 Georgia House minority leader Stacey Abrams was ready for Trump in 2020, and she had been preparing for this moment since she was a teenager. She’d spent the past three years building a voting rights group, a fundraising operation, and a team of aides and advisers to help her not-so-quietly make senior party officials aware that she was running for governor.

#2 In Georgia, Democrats were in need of a new leader after years of demoralizing defeats. Stacey Abrams was known for her outspokenness and ability to energize Democrats, but she was also known as a behind-the-scenes operator who was skilled at picking apart Republican talking points.

#3 Georgia had always been a one-party state dominated by Democrats, and this remained the case throughout most of the twentieth century. Black leaders who tried to influence the Democratic Party were often looked down upon.

#4 Georgia was a prime example of how the Democrats’ armor could be pierced. In 1980, Carter easily won Georgia, but was shellacked in much of the rest of the country. In 1990, a congenial congressman and onetime Atlanta councilman named Wyche Fowler rebuilt the Democratic alliance between rural white conservatives and Black voters to defeat Mattingly.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669383284

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Georgia House minority leader Stacey Abrams was ready for Trump in 2020, and she had been preparing for this moment since she was a teenager. She’d spent the past three years building a voting rights group, a fundraising operation, and a team of aides and advisers to help her not-so-quietly make senior party officials aware that she was running for governor.

#2

In Georgia, Democrats were in need of a new leader after years of demoralizing defeats. Stacey Abrams was known for her outspokenness and ability to energize Democrats, but she was also known as a behind-the-scenes operator who was skilled at picking apart Republican talking points.

#3

Georgia had always been a one-party state dominated by Democrats, and this remained the case throughout most of the twentieth century. Black leaders who tried to influence the Democratic Party were often looked down upon.

#4

Georgia was a prime example of how the Democrats’ armor could be pierced. In 1980, Carter easily won Georgia, but was shellacked in much of the rest of the country. In 1990, a congenial congressman and onetime Atlanta councilman named Wyche Fowler rebuilt the Democratic alliance between rural white conservatives and Black voters to defeat Mattingly.

#5

The HOPE Scholarship, which was created by Miller, was signed into law by Perdue, a Republican, in 2002. It has helped send more than 2 million students to colleges and tech schools.

#6

In 2014, state Senator Jason Carter and nonprofit executive Michelle Nunn both tried to build an electable coalition. Carter voted in favor of a broad expansion of gun rights, while Nunn avoided President Barack Obama when he came to visit. They thought they had the best shot at winning in 2014.

#7

Democrats failed to take advantage of a massive political shift in 2016, when the bedroom communities that once surrounded Atlanta turned blue. Trump won Georgia by about five percentage points without so much as a campaign rally in the state.

#8

Stacey Abrams was ready to make her mark. Even if it meant clashing with Trump supporters within the party who believed in re-winning over moderate white voters. She instead wanted to focus on communities of color.

#9

Lauren Groh-Wargo, a battle-hardened strategist, was brought in by Abrams to help with the campaign.

#10

The Democratic Party in Georgia was in shambles. They barely