In 2018, both Beto O’Rourke in Texas and Stacey Abrams in Georgia made surprisingly strong showings in deep red seats, O’Rourke versus Ted Cruz for Senate and Abrams versus Brian Kemp for governor. Though they both lost, they had the buzz or rising new stars. More @Wikipedia
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