like you don t respond or reflect their values. we cannot win by pretending to be something we re not. don t tell me we can t spread progressive messages. reporter: the other stacey in the democratic race disagree. my opponent on the other hand thinks you just focus on democrats. and if we just get all democrats out, we ll win. and in a state like georgia i don t think that s enough. i don t think the math adds up. i also don t think it s healthy fordecry. stacey evans is also vying for the democratic nomination, would also make history as georgia s first woman governor, but evans believes she needs to expand the base in a year of republicans souring on trump. i m stacey evans. as governor investing in tv early and heavily. and i think we should take our progressive message to persuade those that are living in suburban communities that maybe have tended to vote republican that there is something for them on the democratic side that s going to make their lives better.
governor. and i m running for office not for me but for the young people who deserve better from their elected officials. reporter: she s the democratic candidate for governor, but in the heart of rural georgia a republican stronghold watch stacy abrams. good luck. thank you. reporter: posed for photos, receive hugs, even tears. and if you haven t noticed yet, every supporter here is white. we re in trump country. yes. you think you can win here? so here is the thing, i have to win georgia. that means i ve got to turn out more democrats everywhere. we re in trump country. but here is the thing, they re driving around. we re doing something. reporter: abrams determined to pull off something no black woman has ever managed to do in georgia or the entire country. a she has never been governor in this state. no, no she has ever been
governor, but i intend to change that this year. reporter: trying to crack the ceiling in a place that once shut her out. in 1991, as her high school s value victorian, abrams was invited to the governor s mansion. what happened on that trip? the security guard refused to allow us inside. he said it was a private event. this man who had this power in front of the most powerful place in georgia telling me i don t belong there. that s resonated for met over the last 20 years. help me become the next governor of the great state of georgia. reporter: abrams plans to do that by taking the blue wave on overdrive, doubling down on the democratic base. women and minorities from black voters to latinos and white progressives with an emphasis on direct grass roots and volunteer contact. in every corner of georgia. you cannot ignore those who already agree with you but feel
people around the globe as he s done for decades. he goes with berma and he meets with three guys that had been political prisoners, and when he started to speak, one of them started to cry because they had heard his voice so many times. reporter: for over 30 years salter has helped mccain convey his essence. you ve written a lot of words for and with john mccain. what do you think the most important are? we were born to love and we were born to have the courage for it, so be brave. the rest is easy. i thought that was the most mccain-esque thing he had ever said. reporter: that or maybe this in the final chapter. we need each other. we need friends in the world and they need us. the bell tolls for us, my friends. reporter: that, of course, is a reference to for whom the bell tolls by ernst hemingway, mccain s favorite book of all
capitulated and expressing concerned about the white house s involvement in that meeting. this cannot be a conduit to supply investigatory materials to the trump legal defense team. that would be a terrible abuse of power. reporter: chuck schumer stressing if the meeting does occur, quote, it must be bipartisan in order to serve as a check on the disturbing tendency of the president s allies to distort facts and undermine the investigation and the people conducting it. close trump ally republican mark meadows calling the inspector general review a step in the right direction, but warning that the justice department s attempt to circumvent this responsibility won t go unnoticed. nunes hasn t commented about the proposed meeting but he said on sunday he won t meet with the justice department until he gets information about the confidential source. we re not going to go to another meeting where we don t get documents. reporter: president trump praising nunes at the c.i.a. monday.