Stacey Abrams tells Stephen Colbert she wants to be president, may not run in 2020

Stacey Abrams won more votes than any Democratic gubernatorial candidate in Georgia history last fall, but she did not win and also has not conceded. Instead, she filed a lawsuit. "Five months later, do you still feel like your opponent won through voter suppression?" Stephen Colbert asked Abrams on Wednesday's Late Show. "Yes," she said.

"What now for Georgia?" Colbert asked. "So the lawsuit that I filed will not make me governor of Georgia, no matter how successful we are," Abrams explained. "The election is over; he is the governor, I am not. ... It is not about whether I won or lost, it is the fact that Georgia voters did not have their votes counted, they were not allowed to cast votes, they had their votes discarded."

Abrams explained that she is currently heading two projects: Fair Count, to make sure hard-to-count populations are included in the 2020 Census; and Fair Fight Action, working on voter suppression. "I believe our democracy is under attack and we have to stop voter suppression," she said. "It is real, it is pervasive, and it will destroy America if we don't stop it."

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In her book Lead From the Outside, "you have an Excel spreadsheet of life goals," Colbert pointed out. "Is president still on that spreadsheet for you?" "It is," Abrams said. Colbert noted that the Democratic presidential field is already very crowded, and he asked if she'd like to make news on his show, one way or another. "There is absolutely no news I would like to make this evening," she said. He laughed and brought up the romance novels she wrote under a pen name years ago. "I've got a little excerpt here," he said. "Oh, dear God," Abrams said. Some of the bodice-ripper did not get past CBS's censors, but he did read a small bit, and you can watch that below. Peter Weber