Deeply polarized U.S. Voters have given the country its first transgender state senator and its first black gay congressman – but even its first legislator has openly supported the Quan conspiracy theory, including Niels.
All four members of the Democratic Congress of Color – Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Aishwarya Presley and Rashida Klib – have been comfortably re-elected, and Sarah McBride’s victory in Delaware has given her the highest rank. Officer in.
“I hope tonight an LGBTQ kid shows that our democracy is big enough for them, too,” said McBride, 30, who easily defeated Republican Steve Washington to represent Delaware’s first Senate district. Tweeted After calling the election.
MGB Cabrid, a former spokesman for the LGBTQ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign, was a trainee at the White House during the Obama administration and became the first trans man to speak at a major political convention when he addressed Democrats in Philadelphia in 2016.
“Breaking the lavender ceiling in such a polarizing year for Sarah is a powerful reminder that voters are increasingly rejecting radical politics in favor of candidates standing for merit and equality,” said Anis Parker of the MGBTQ Victory Fund. Supports candidates.
In Vermont, Taylor Small, 26, became the first public transgender legislator in the state, winning 1% of the vote, giving her access to the House of Representatives, which made her a U.S. nominee. Became the fifth “out” trans-state legislator in.
Small, who is director of health and wellness at the Pride Center in Vermont, told LGBTQ Nation last month that he saw the victory not as a historic moment for me, but as a historic moment for the community.
Parker said that although there are very few transgender people in the elected office, almost every victory is “historic.” Breaking every barrier motivates more trans people to do so. Even pro-equality states like Vermont need a trans voice in government. “
City Councilor Richie Torres, 32, will be the first Afro-Latino gay member of the U.S. Congress after comfortably capturing New York’s 15th district, which ranks in Cook’s political report’s Partisan Water Index as the country’s most democratic district.
“He was a clear candidate as the youngest Latino elected to NYC Council, the only working mother’s son from the Bronx and a champion for New York City essential workers,” said Tony Cardenas, president of Bold PAC. The hand of the Hispanic Caucus campaign of Congress.
Democrat Monder Jones, another black gay candidate in Congress, was widely expected to follow Torres in the House. Jones had a three-point lead over his Republican rival in the race for the 17th Congregational District seat in New York.
The election also returned a member of Congress before he was born in 1990. Despite allegations of racism and sexual misconduct, Madison K. Thorne, 25, won the 11th congressional district in North Carolina, becoming the youngest GOP to be elected to Congress. Became a candidate and the youngest person of any party elected in more than 50 years.
Republican businessman Marjorie Taylor Green has become the first proponent of the far-right Q-Anon conspiracy theory to win a U.S. House seat when she was declared the winner of Georgia’s 14th congressional district.
Leela faced racist and fanatical statements and a national scrutiny for Quennon’s support, a fundamental conspiracy theory rooted in anti-Trumps, whose followers believe Donald Trump is secretly rocking Democrats, billionaires and child traffickers.
While the FBI has identified the movement as a potential domestic terrorist threat, Green has been targeted by White House Chief of Staff, board chairman of the leading think tank Thinktank Heritage Foundation, and several large GOPs.
Trump has repeatedly praised the candidate, who distanced himself from the QN conspiracy theory in an interview with Fox News in August, and consistently refused to condemn QN. Green was among at least a dozen Republican congressional candidates – by some estimates the number was more than 20 – who showed little support for Quinn.
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