Two-time failed Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ campaign owes a lot of money, according to the ranking official who ran it. Lauren Groh-Wargo, who served as Abrams’ campaign manager, says that Abrams\u2019 campaign owes more than $1 million to vendors. Abrams also ran out of money during her 2018 campaign, so this issue has obviously become a pattern for Abrams.<\/p>\n
Now, the Abrams campaign is facing large debts and had to suddenly cut off employee pay towards the end of the election, despite raising more than $100 million. Chris Huttman, who is a Georgia Democratic operative, told the outlet that \u201cshe was running a campaign where there\u2019s always been more money in the future that can fix the mistakes of the past,\u201d The Daily Caller reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n In the last week of the campaign, the campaign had to cut its ad spending from $2-$3 million in October to $825,000.<\/p>\n While Abrams\u2019 rival campaign, Republican Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp, paid its employees through the close of November with bonuses, the majority of Abrams\u2019 campaign\u2019s 180 full-time staff were given sudden notices that their pay would be cut off one week after the election.<\/p>\n With the vast majority of her funding coming from out of state and some notable gifts from celebrities – including Leonardo DiCaprio and Melinda Gates – Abrams out-raised her rival by $8 million in 2022. But despite out-raising her, she lost to Kemp by nine points.<\/p>\n It’s not at all clear that she will be a viable gubernatorial candidate — or a Democratic candidate for any elected office in Georgia — moving forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Two-time failed Georgia Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ campaign owes a lot of money, according to the ranking official who ran it. Lauren Groh-Wargo, who served as Abrams’ campaign manager, says that Abrams\u2019 campaign owes more than $1 million to vendors. Abrams also ran out of money during her 2018 campaign, so this issue has … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":25603,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","masonry-post","generate-columns","tablet-grid-50","mobile-grid-100","grid-parent","grid-33"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendingviews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}