Former Georgia political candidate and Democratic hopeful Stacey Abrams returned to the state Tuesday night to run against Vice President Kamala Harris. Abrams, who won races against Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) in 2018 and 2022, will join Harris at 7 p.m. Eastern Time, Atlanta Mayor Andre Dickens, Sens. They include Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and Jon Ossoff (D-GA), as well as rapper Megan Thee Stallion. This will be Harris’ 15th visit to the Peach State since taking office.

After serving several years in the state legislature, Abrams rose to stardom among Democrats by running in Georgia’s 2018 gubernatorial race and was a controversial vice presidential candidate — a job she later won — but has since quietly run again in 2022 against Kemp, losing by nearly 300,000 votes.

“I’m not sure why she’s not speaking out like she used to,” Spelman College professor Marilyn Davis recently told the Washington Examiner. “It would probably increase the number of voters in the state of Georgia. Of course, this is a national effort on his part, but he’s been doing everything he can in recent times, like in the last three weeks, to bring together organizations that have the same goal in mind that John Lewis did when he did his voter project in the 1960s and ’70s.”

Abrams is now a professor emeritus of race and black politics at Howard University in Washington, D.C., and works for a group that advocates for an anti-gas stove crackdown, so he may be spending some time in Georgia these days. Still, he’s respected as a political organizer who can help his country win elections, said Charles Bullock, a politics professor at the University of Georgia.

“If she can delay the effort to get rid of the votes that she showed in 2020, that could be crucial to Harris’s bid in the state,” Bullock said. “That will allow her people to come back and wake up.”

Trump leads Harris by 4.5 points in Georgia, according to the RealClearPolitics polling average, but Trump is only a point or two ahead in both polls since he succeeded Biden on the Democratic ticket, suggesting the race is closer than ever.

Abrams’ star power has undoubtedly waned since she was the vice presidential nominee in 2020. Allegations of a stolen election have stirred controversy among Democrats since Trump began arguing that his 2020 race was rigged and that his group Fair Fight Action fired hard-earned workers.

In the current climate, some politicians say the convention could be a better opportunity for Abram than Harris.