Shutdown a Trump 'stunt,' says Democrat Abrams in reply to annual speech

Delivering the Democratic Party's response to his State of the Union address, Abrams struck a tone that might influence other Democrats still searching for the right way to challenge Trump in the election in 2020, when he will seek a second term."The shutdown was a stunt engineered by the president of the United States, one that defied every tenet of fairness and abandoned not just our people but our values," Abrams said.Abrams sought to balance policy prescriptions with measured attacks against