WASHINGTON — Stacey Abrams, who narrowly lost her race in November to be Georgia’s governor, delivered the Democrats’ official response to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday by outlining the party’s vision for lower health care costs and a more inclusive immigration policy, and pressing her case that access to the voting booth should be easier, not harder.

“Let’s be clear: Voter suppression is real,” Abrams said, speaking from Atlanta and surrounded by supporters. “From making it harder to register and stay on the rolls to moving and closing polling places to rejecting lawful ballots, we can no longer ignore these threats to democracy.”

Abrams’ loss in November dashed hopes that she would become the first African-American female governor, and the way she lost rankled her and her supporters, amid charges of voter suppression and ballot rigging. Her emphasis on voting rights Tuesday night fit the theme she struck when she conceded the race to her Republican rival, Brian Kemp, who supervised the election as Georgia’s secretary of state.

The Democrats’ selection of Abrams signals that the party intends for her to play a prominent role in national politics, and already some Democratic leaders are imploring her to challenge Sen. David Perdue, R-Ga., a Trump ally who is up for re-election in 2020.

Abrams hit hard on the Democrats’ agenda of lowering prescription drug prices, passing an infrastructure measure and ending corruption in Washington.

“In Georgia and around the country, people are striving for a middle class where a salary truly equals economic security,” she said. “But instead, families’ hopes are being crushed by Republican leadership that ignores real life or just doesn’t understand it.”

She also attacked Trump over his immigration policies.

“We know bipartisanship could craft a 21st-century immigration plan, but this administration chooses to cage children and tear families apart,” Abrams said.

Two presidential hopefuls — Sens. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt. (who has not yet announced his candidacy but is widely expected to), and Kamala Harris, D-Calif. — also weighed in.

Harris, a former prosecutor who in 2017 became the second black woman to serve in the Senate (after Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois), delivered an eight-minute address on Facebook before Trump took the rostrum in the House chamber. She took the president to task for policies that she said benefited the rich and powerful, and outlined her own vision for a politics of unity rather than division.

Like Harris, Sanders outlined a progressive vision, questioning why Trump had failed to mention climate change in his address, faulting his “disgraceful” immigration policies and complaining of the president, “He is trying to divide us up.”

This article originally appeared in The New York Times.