Commentary Wandering around the GOP senatorial runoff party at Atlanta’s Grand Hyatt Tuesday, as the faithful mingled, quaffed beverages and ate the usual mediocre hors d’oeuvres while keeping one eye cocked on the big screens displaying the votes and another on the lookout for local political heavies like Governor Brian Kemp—the man only the day before excoriated by Donald Trump—it became clear to me who the real political leader of Georgia was, and she wasn’t in the room… Stacey Abrams. Like her or not—and I don’t—Democrat Abrams was the clear victor Tuesday night. She may have lost the gubernatorial election to Kemp, but she exercises far more real power over her state than man who won. Abrams—by force of personality and via manipulation of the voting rules, getting Georgia Secretary of State Raffensperger to acquiesce to practically anything she wanted—was able to engineer the victories of two candidates (Raphael Warnock …
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