Women candidates set nationwide records
More women have won major party primaries for offices up and down the ballot than in any other year in American history, setting up a midterm election likely to be defined by sky-high energy among female voters across the country.
On Thursday, New York voters guaranteed the state’s next lieutenant governor will be a woman. Democrats nominated incumbent Kathy Hochul (D), while Republicans picked former Rye City Councilwoman Julie Killian (R), who ran unopposed.
Democrats also nominated a woman, New York public advocate Letitia James (D), as their candidate for attorney general. She begins the general election sprint as the heavy favorite over attorney Keith Wofford, the GOP and Conservative Party nominee.
And several women running for state Senate seats upset Democratic incumbents who were members of the Independent Democratic Conference, a group of centrists who had sided with Republicans to give the GOP control of the state Senate. Sens. Jose Peralta, Jeffrey Klein and David Valesky, all members of the conference, lost their Democratic primaries to women.
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