Stacey Abrams romance novel. Yes, really. Before getting into politics and becoming a national figure, Abrams wrote romance novels, and some of them are being reissued next year. On Friday, Carlson told viewers they obtained “one of her steamier novels” and that their senior producer “volunteered to perform a dramatic reading of the most titillating moments in Stacey Abrams’ novel.” And that’s exactly what happened, with music playing as excerpts like the following were read on screen: “Heat, like an inferno, blazed in his veins. Temptation, like a song, clouded his mind. It demanded that he slide his arms around her, that he trail his hand along her spine to sink into the silken curls at her nape.”