Is This the Year Women Break the Rules and Win?
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Ilhan Omar, a Somali-American state legislator, is running in the Democratic primary on August 14 for Minnesota’sFifth District, an open seat that, like the ones Ms. Ocasio-Cortez and Ms. Tlaib are seeking to fill, is solidly Democratic. She has attracted progressive activism locally and national support from immigrant-rights groups newly mobilized against President Trump’s travel ban, which blocks most travelers from Somalia.
The bigger questions are about Democratic women running in places that are historically Republican — and that’s most Democratic women running this year.
Stacey Abrams has created excitement around the possibility of electing the nation’s first black female governor — in Georgia, no less. But yes, Georgia, where white voters have been stingy about supporting black candidates and voters have dashed the hopes of a string of promising Democrats for governor.
New Jersey’s 11th District has been solidly Republican for the last 20 years. But Donald Trump won it by only a small margin in 2016, and Mikie Sherrill, the Democratic nominee, has amassed an impressive campaign war chest. A Monmouth University poll this week shows Democrats more excited than Republicans about the race, suggesting that Ms. Sherrill could win on the strength of newly energized resistance groups. (That energy helped push the incumbent, Rodney Frelinghuysen, into retirement.)
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