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A Year After Trump,
Women and
Minorities Give
Groundbreaking Wins to Democrats
Women and
Minorities Give
Groundbreaking Wins to Democrats
New York Times
6 hours ago
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5 Ways Women
Won Big on the
First Trump-Era
Election Night
Won Big on the
First Trump-Era
Election Night
Fortune
14 hours ago
Election 2017:
Democrats sweep
in Virginia, New
Jersey
Democrats sweep
in Virginia, New
Jersey
CNN
17 hours ago
5 Ways Women Won Big on the First Trump-Era Election Night
3 Women Who Made History on Election Day
Including the first-ever openly-transgender state legislator.
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One ongoing narrative of 2017 is how the presidential
victory of Donald Trump last year has inspired a record number of women
to pursue politics. In August, Emily’s List, a group that supports
pro-choice Democratic women, said it had received inquires about running
for office from 16,000 women—an
unprecedented total—since last November. The outpouring of interest has
been so overwhelming that the organization has had to expand its
Washington, D.C., headquarters.
Election Day on Tuesday marked another chapter in this story, as it presented voters with their first opportunity to consider female candidates in the Trump era. At the same time, the contests gave female voters a fresh chance to exercise their electoral power at the ballot box.
Here are some of the ways in which women won in the first nation-wide elections since 2016:
In arguably the biggest contest of Election Day 2017,
women voters helped give Ralph Northam, a Democratic hopeful for
Virginia governor, a surprisingly decisive victory over Republican Ed
Gillespie in a race that was largely seen as a referendum on Trump.
Northam won the female vote by 22 percentage points, eclipsing the 17-point advantage Hillary Clinton won in the state in her bid for the White House last year.
A woman was bound to become Seattle’s next mayor as two female Democrats faced off in the race to replace Mayor Ed Murray, who resigned in September
amid child sex abuse allegations. Jenny Durkan, a former U.S. attorney,
and Cary Moon, an urban planner and activist, emerged as the top two
vote-getters in a competitive primary earlier this year, but Durkan is the projected winner of Tuesday’s general contest. The victory will make her the city’s first female mayor in nearly a century.
Former journalist Danica Roem sought to make her bid
for a Virginia House of Delegates seat about her platform issues: jobs,
schools, and traffic. But her female gender identity and the background
of her incumbent opponent Robert Marshall—a socially-conservative
Republican who’s sought to limit LGBT rights—meant that the race focused
largely on the fact that Roem is a transgender woman. At one point in
the campaign, Marshall approved mailers that accused Roem of wanted to
teach “transgenderism” to kindergarteners. But after out-raising
Marshall 3-to-1 with backing from LGBT advocates and supporters, Roem triumphed, becoming the United States’ first-ever openly-transgender state legislator.
Voters in Charlotte elected former city council member Vi Lyles as its first-ever African American woman mayor.
Lyles defeated incumbent Jennifer Roberts in a September primary and
claimed victory in Tuesday’s election with a 18-point margin over
councilman Kenny Smith—more than triple the advantage Roberts won two
years ago. Charlotte and its state of North Carolina have endured social
and political turmoil in recent years due business backlash against its
“bathroom bill” and protests over the fatal police shooting of Keith
Lamont Scott, a black man confronted by officers while possessing a gun.
“Charlotte has been the center of a lot this year,”
Lyles said in her victory speech Tuesday night. “And I believe that
today we’ve closed that chapter of the book and we’re going to begin to
talk about the incredible future that we have before us.”
Two female candidates emerged from the crowded field
of hopefuls vying to succeed term-limited Mayor Kasim Reed. In a field
of nearly a dozen, no single candidate captured more than 50% of the
vote, but councilwomen Keisha Lance Bottoms and Mary Norwood ended up as
the top vote-getters, winning 27% and 21% of the ballots, respectively.
They’ll now face off in a head-to-head battle in early December—but the
winner won’t be Atlanta’s first female mayor; that was Shirley Franklin
who served two terms starting in 2001. Nonetheless, the Dec. 5 run-off
will be closely watched. Bottoms is black and Norwood is white, meaning
their showdown will continue to prompt the question of whether the next mayor of Atlanta, a center of cultural and political power for African Americans, should be black.
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The Tuesday night victories come as women, who constitute more than half of the United States’ population, continue to be underrepresented at very single level of government. In fact, the United States dropped four spots on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index, published last week, because women’s political empowerment has declined, reaching its lowest level since 2007.
Election Day on Tuesday marked another chapter in this story, as it presented voters with their first opportunity to consider female candidates in the Trump era. At the same time, the contests gave female voters a fresh chance to exercise their electoral power at the ballot box.
Here are some of the ways in which women won in the first nation-wide elections since 2016:
Women push Northam over the finish line
Northam greeted supporters at an election night rally/
Win McNamee Getty Images
Jenny Durkan wins Seattle’s mayoral race
Durkan with supporters in August.
Alan Berner — AP
Danica Roem ousts 13-term incumbent
Roem celebrates as polls close on Tuesday.
The Washington Post/Getty Images
Vi Lyles clinches Charlotte mayorship
Lyles with former Negro League player Bill Cathcart in April.
Charlotte Observer TNS via Getty Images
2 women left standing in Atlanta
Mary Norwood, left, and Keisha Lance Bottoms.
Getty Images
The Tuesday night victories come as women, who constitute more than half of the United States’ population, continue to be underrepresented at very single level of government. In fact, the United States dropped four spots on the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index, published last week, because women’s political empowerment has declined, reaching its lowest level since 2007.
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