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Stacey Abrams y Beto O'Rourke, favoritos de los medios en 2018, tienen problemas para recuperar la "magia" de la prensa
Por David Rutz, Hanna Panreck
Publicado el 17 de octubre de 2022
Los candidatos demócratas a gobernador Stacey Abrams y Beto O'Rourke se convirtieron en los favoritos de los medios de comunicación liberales en sus candidaturas a cargos estatales en 2018 en los estados rojos de Georgia y Texas.
They lost, but their futures as national stars appeared set. Four years later though, after countless media profiles, national interviews and endless hype, the excitement seems to be wearing off, and the press has taken notice.
"The vibe is different" this time around, Politico reported last month, saying the once "shiniest stars" of the party are no longer as exciting. There seems to be a simple reason: their respective bids for governor have not caught fire in the polls. They're also running in a more difficult environment; in 2018, they had the benefit of political winds at their backs in President Trump's first midterm, but now it's a Democrat in President Biden who's facing the common historical prospect of his party losing seats in his first midterm.
"Their anointment as the future of the Democratic Party — young, dynamic and erudite — led to glossy magazine profiles and soft press coverage that may have burnished their national profiles, but did little to advance their prospects among voters who weren’t already inclined to support them," Politico's Calder McHugh wrote.
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Desde sus derrotas de 2018, O'Rourke montó una malhadada candidatura demócrata para 2020, abandonando meses antes de los caucus de Iowa . Abrams ayudó a Biden a ganar Georgia en 2020 y fue presentada como posible candidata a la vicepresidencia, pero su retórica sobre la pérdida de unas elecciones "robadas" en 2018 ha vuelto a perseguirla con comparaciones no deseadas con Trump.
Titular de Político sobre Stacey Abrams y Beto O'Rourke. Fox News)
Abrams, running for governor of Georgia against Republican Brian Kemp, and O'Rourke, a Texas U.S. representative seeking to unseat Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, gave the press irresistible storylines in 2018 and hope that their success portended long-term Democratic gains in the GOP strongholds. MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace, one of the media's most fervent Democratic Party boosters, fawned over O'Rourke as one of the "best stories" of the cycle at one point. An ABC News reporter told him to his face he was a "rock star."
"Win or lose, Beto O’Rourke set to emerge victorious," Reuters Politics tweeted out on Election Day that year.
O'Rourke used his narrow loss as a springboard to mount a 2020 Democratic presidential campaign; he memorably appeared on the cover of Vanity Fair and declared, "I'm just born to be in it." But his candidacy never took off and his presumptuous remarks on the cover came off as entitled to even liberal media members.
Ahora, con ambos constantemente por detrás de sus oponentes en las encuestas -Abrams se enfrenta de nuevo a Brian Kemp en Georgia y O'Rourke desafía a Greg Abbott en Texas , también se presta más atención al hecho de que pueden no estar en sintonía con sus posibles electores.
O'Rourke has taken heat for his flip-flops on gun control; he famously said in 2019 that "hell yes" he was going to seize people's AR-15s as he sought the presidency, a markedly different position than he had in 2018 while just appealing to Texans.
El candidato demócrata a gobernadorTexas , Beto O'Rourke, habla en una reunión sobre las elecciones primarias en Fort Worth, Texas el martes 1 de marzo de 2022.AP Photo Otero) AP Photo Otero)
Abrams, in spite of never officially conceding her loss to Kemp, was heralded as an election reform icon and floated as a possible running mate to 2020 Democratic candidates. A Washington Post magazine story about her "power" included a widely mocked image of her silhouetted in effectively a superhero cape, while a gushing Vogue profile wondered if she could "save American democracy."
In Georgia's case, Abrams' narrow defeat to Kemp continued a trend of the southern state veering toward the blue column, culminating in Biden barely beating Trump there in 2020. No Democrat had won the state in a presidential election since 1992.
But now her refusal to officially concede, in the wake of widespread media criticism of Trump's claims that he truly won the 2020 election, is being revisited in an uncomfortable way.
Abrams dijo repetidamente a los medios de comunicación que nunca negó que hubiera perdido en 2018. Dijo en CNN que nunca ha tenido "dudas" sobre no haber ganado. También se la presionó sobre un vídeo de 2019 en el que aparecía diciendo a la Red de Acción Nacional del reverendo Al Sharpton: "hemos ganado". En septiembre dijo a los presentadores de "The View" que lo habían sacado de contexto y que se refería a las "comunidades que durante mucho tiempo quedaron fuera del proceso electoral y que finalmente participaron en el 18 en cantidades extraordinarias".
During an appearance on "Fox News Sunday," she told host Shannon Bream that she repeatedly acknowledged that she is not the governor.
La candidata demócrata a la gobernación Georgia , Stacey Abrams, habla con Brandon Gillespie, de Fox News, tras un mitin con la comunidad asiático-estadounidense en el condado de Gwinnett, Georgia el 7 de octubre de 2022. Brandon Gillespie)
"What I will not do is allow the lack of nuance in our conversations to dull and obfuscate the challenges faced by our citizens," she said.
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Abrams has also struggled to cement Black male support in the state, which is crucial to her victory strategy. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has published multiple stories about her difficulties to cement that voting bloc, and it even caught the attention of left-wing New York Times columnist Charles Blow, who wrote last month about the "softening support for Democrats among Black men."
Also, Abrams has seen considerable mainstream media pick-up of a Fox News Digital exclusive on her election rights PAC Fair Fight doling out thousands in payments to its director's family and friends. Fair Fight is now launching an investigation into the matter.
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