Stacey Abrams wins Democratic Primary in Georgia
Stacey Abrams wins Democratic primary in Georgia. She could become the nation’s first black woman governor.
Stacey Abrams (top left) won the Democratic nomination in a race showcasing divergent Democratic strategies on how to win in Georgia, a Republican-dominated southern state. In the Texas governor’s race, Democrats tapped former Dallas County Sheriff Lupe Valdez (top right), the first openly gay and first Latina nominee for governor. In a San Antonio-Mexican border district, Gina Ortiz Jones (bottom right), an Air Force veteran and former intelligence officer, got Democrats’ nod to face Republican Will Hurd in November. Kentucky Democrats picked a female former Marine fighter pilot, Amy McGrath (bottom left), in a snub to the party establishment for a U.S. House seat district that Democrats hope to put into play.
Stacey Abrams wins Democratic primary in Georgia. She could become the nation’s first black woman governor, by Eric Bradner, CNN
Washington (CNN) Stacey Abrams will win the Democratic primary in Georgia’s gubernatorial race Tuesday, CNN projects, becoming the first black woman in the nation to hold a major party’s nomination for governor.
Abrams’ status as an African-American with strong progressive support, as well as Georgia’s status as an early primary and marquee general election state, made her campaign a major draw for national Democratic figures.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/22/politics/georgia-governor-race-stacey-abrams/index.html