Summary of Greg Bluestein's Flipped

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#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.

Sujets

• American Government
• Federal government of the United States

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 10 avril 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669383284
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Greg Bluestein's Flipped
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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 had 20 percent of the white vote, and their voter turnout was low, especially among minorities.

#11

Even as Abrams waged her bid to become the nation’s first Black female governor, she prepared to run a parallel operation that she and Groh-Wargo saw as just as essential. They had to convince the political class that she had a legitimate shot at winning.

#12

The Sixth District wasn’t exactly fertile ground for a skirmish that would captivate the nation. It had been a launching pad for high-profile Republican talent for years.

#13

Ossoff, a young Democrat, decided to run for the Georgia congressional district. He knew he had little name recognition or visibility, but he was confident he could unite the district. He received support from two liberal lions in Georgia, Representatives Hank Johnson and John Lewis.

#14

Ossoff’s lack of a political background was both an asset and a weakness. He quickly established himself as a credible candidate by focusing on his private sector experience as an investigative journalist.

#15

Ossoff was very stiff at first, but he was able to tap into a hunger that invigorated his supporters. He became the first congressional candidate to harness that newfound liberal energy to counter Democrats’ darkest nightmares about Trump’s presidency.

#16

Ossoff's strategy was to be circumspect about certain hot-button issues, outspoken about others, and always careful not to say or do anything that would alienate his core supporters. He drew attention from the fundraising gurus at the liberal Daily Kos group, which helped generate hundreds of thousands of dollars from national donors.

#17

Republicans were split on who to support, and spent more time fighting with each other than trying to stop Ossoff’s rising poll numbers.

#18

The Republicans were sure they could ignore Ossoff because of the money pouring in from outside groups to keep his poll numbers low. The Congressional Leadership Fund, a high-powered super PAC with ties to Speaker Paul Ryan, spent more than $7 million on the Republican effort to defeat Ossoff.

#19

Despite being in a more competitive district, Price still won by large margins. The new districts were drawn with a purpose to make life difficult for Ossoff.

#20

After Handel’s victory was announced, Ossoff supporters crowded into the Crowne Plaza hotel at the edge of Atlanta, where early returns were being displayed on big-screen TVs. Ossoff himself gave a speech claiming victory before midnight, when final results came in.

#21

Handel was the second Republican to be elected Georgia secretary of state, and she was seen as a rising star in the party. She attempted to use her experience as a springboard to higher office, but was continually thwarted.

#22

Handel was also being followed around by the RNC, as they wanted to make sure she was meeting their demands. The high-pressure campaign was taking its toll on her, and she felt as if she had reached a breaking point.

#23

As the runoff grew closer, so did the threats against Handel. The online election market PredictIt projected that Handel would win, which gave Ossoff's supporters hope.

#24

With the crowd getting restless, Congressman John Lewis came on stage to give the audience some hope, saying that if Ossoff lost, the state would never be the same. Handel won, and she took special delight in proving everyone wrong, especially those who counted her out.

#25

The Ossoff loss was a gut punch to Democrats. They had been determined to prove that even voters in Republican strongholds wouldn’t stand by Trump or his allies. Instead, they wound up sending a different message: how Republicans in newly competitive districts could still win by embracing Trump’s agenda.

#26

Many Georgia Democrats still believe that running to the middle can work in a statewide race. And the leadership of that movement falls to Stacey Evans, the straitlaced white state representative from the rural hinterlands.