A Year After Trump, Women and Minorities Give Groundbreaking
Nov 9, 2017 4:24:57 GMT
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A Year After Trump, Women and Minorities Give Groundbreaking Wins to Democrats
By MICHAEL TACKETT, TRIP GABRIEL and JOHN ELIGONNOV. 8, 2017 NYT
If the 2016 presidential election reflected a primal roar from disaffected white working class voters that delivered for President Trump and Republicans, Tuesday’s results showed the potential of a rising coalition of women, minorities, and gay and transgender people who are solidly aligning with Democrats.
A black transgender activist, Andrea Jenkins, was elected to the Minneapolis City Council.
A Hispanic woman won the mayor’s race in Topeka, Kan.
A Sikh man was elected mayor in Hoboken, N.J.
Latina, Vietnamese and transgender female candidates won state legislative races.
Black candidates were elected lieutenant governor in New Jersey and Virginia.
A Liberian refugee in Helena, Mont., was elected mayor.
Mark Keam, a Korean-American Democrat who was re-elected on Tuesday to his seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates, said the wave of first-time minority candidates was a direct response to feeling snipped out of the American picture by Mr. Trump’s policies and divisive language.
“In Trump’s America, people are getting screwed and those getting screwed more than others are people who’ve never had a voice in the government,” Mr. Keam said. “Those are motivations a white guy wouldn’t have.”
Some are skeptical of reading too much into one off-year election. And even Democrats have had heated disagreements over whether identity politics help the party or drive people away. But David Ramadan, a Republican who served in the Virginia General Assembly from 2012 to 2016 said the warning for his party was clear.
“Tuesday’s results show that unless the Republicans go back to being mainstream conservatives and run on issues like education, jobs and transportations instead of sanctuary cities and Confederate statues, they will hand not only Virginia to liberals, but they will hand the country to liberals and Congress to liberals next year,’’ Mr. Ramadan said.
www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/us/politics/democrats-women-minorities.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=politics
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By MICHAEL TACKETT, TRIP GABRIEL and JOHN ELIGONNOV. 8, 2017 NYT
If the 2016 presidential election reflected a primal roar from disaffected white working class voters that delivered for President Trump and Republicans, Tuesday’s results showed the potential of a rising coalition of women, minorities, and gay and transgender people who are solidly aligning with Democrats.
A black transgender activist, Andrea Jenkins, was elected to the Minneapolis City Council.
A Hispanic woman won the mayor’s race in Topeka, Kan.
A Sikh man was elected mayor in Hoboken, N.J.
Latina, Vietnamese and transgender female candidates won state legislative races.
Black candidates were elected lieutenant governor in New Jersey and Virginia.
A Liberian refugee in Helena, Mont., was elected mayor.
Mark Keam, a Korean-American Democrat who was re-elected on Tuesday to his seat in Virginia’s House of Delegates, said the wave of first-time minority candidates was a direct response to feeling snipped out of the American picture by Mr. Trump’s policies and divisive language.
“In Trump’s America, people are getting screwed and those getting screwed more than others are people who’ve never had a voice in the government,” Mr. Keam said. “Those are motivations a white guy wouldn’t have.”
Some are skeptical of reading too much into one off-year election. And even Democrats have had heated disagreements over whether identity politics help the party or drive people away. But David Ramadan, a Republican who served in the Virginia General Assembly from 2012 to 2016 said the warning for his party was clear.
“Tuesday’s results show that unless the Republicans go back to being mainstream conservatives and run on issues like education, jobs and transportations instead of sanctuary cities and Confederate statues, they will hand not only Virginia to liberals, but they will hand the country to liberals and Congress to liberals next year,’’ Mr. Ramadan said.
www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/us/politics/democrats-women-minorities.html?ribbon-ad-idx=4&rref=politics
There are short bios for each one in the article. It is a NYT article, if anyone has trouble opening it I can post the whole article tomorrow.
