Stacey Abrams, a Democrat who raised more than $100 million in her second unsuccessful bid to become governor of Georgia, appears to have left behind a number of unsatisfied staff members.<\/p>\n

Several staff members told Axios that they stopped getting paid a week after Abrams lost to Republican Gov. Brian Kemp, and some of them admitted that they were having trouble even paying their rent on time.<\/p>\n

“People have told me they have no idea how they\u2019re going to pay their rent in January,” one former staffer said. “It was more than unfortunate. It was messed up.”<\/p>\n

Axios reported that “money became so tight that most of the 180 full-time staffers were given an abrupt paycheck cutoff date \u2014 just a week after the November election.”<\/p>\n

Reporter Lachlan Markay summed up Abrams’s campaign\u2019s money troubles on social media: “Stacey Abrams’ lavishly funded campaign ended in serious debt and quickly cut off paychecks to staffers.”<\/p>\n

National Journal’s Matt Holt accused Axios of engaging in a “remarkable spin\u2026 considering they raised more than $100 million.”<\/p>\n

According to representatives for unsuccessful Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker, they would continue to pay campaign workers through December.<\/p>\n

Since announcing on December 14 that she is “teaming up to produce a music documentary for Discovery+” with pop star Selena Gomez, Abrams has not tweeted from her official account in nearly a week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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