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Virginia xeev Sen. Jennifer McClellan zoo li yuav dhau los ua thawj tus poj niam Dub los sawv cev rau Virginia hauv Congress tom qab yeej tus thawj coj ywj pheej hauv kev sib tw los hloov Rep. Donald McEachin, uas tau tuag lub lis piam tom qab yeej rov xaiv tsa thaum lub Kaum Ib Hlis, hauv nws cheeb tsam xiav xiav.
Virginia xeev Senator Jennifer McClellan (Duab los ntawm Shannon Finney / Getty Images for Bumble)
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Cov Lus Tseem Ceeb
Nyob rau hauv ib qho kev yeej zoo, McClellan yeej 85% ntawm cov pov npav los yeej lub xeev Sen. Joe Morrissey hauv qhov tau raug hu ua "lub tsev hluav taws tseem ceeb" uas cov Democratic tog, tsis yog tsoomfwv lub xeev, khiav kev xaiv tsa raws sijhawm nruj.
McClellan yuav ntsib Republican Leon Benjamin, Navy qub tub rog thiab tus xibhwb, hauv kev xaiv tsa tshwj xeeb Feb 21.
McClellan, 49, uas tau txais kev lees paub hauv Virginia kev nom kev tswv thaum nws ua tsis tiav rau tus tswv xeev xyoo tas los, tau txais kev pom zoo los ntawm cov tseem ceeb hauv tebchaws Democrats, suav nrog Cov Neeg Sawv Cev Elaine Luria thiab Joyce Beatty, nrog rau cov pab pawg xaiv xws li Planned Parenthood Action Fund thiab NARAL. Pro-Choice America, raws li nws lub vev xaib.
Thaum lub sijhawm kev sib tw luv luv, uas tau pib tom qab McEachin tuag thaum Lub Kaum Ib Hlis 28, nws tau hais txog nws cov ntaub ntawv sawv cev rau Richmond thaum nws muaj 17 xyoo nyob rau hauv General Assembly, uas nws tau tshaj tawm txoj cai los txhawb kev xaiv tsa thiab rho menyuam txoj cai thiab nthuav dav Obamacare hauv Virginia.
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McEachin tuag thaum muaj hnub nyoog 61 xyoos los ntawm cov teeb meem tom qab nws sib ntaus sib tua nrog mob qog noj ntshav hauv 2013. Nws thawj zaug raug xaiv los sawv cev rau 4th Congressional District, uas suav nrog lub xeev lub nroog Richmond, xyoo 2016. McClellan kuj tau tawm tsam xeev Del. Lamont Bagby hauv Democratic thawj, tab sis nws tau tawm mus pom zoo rau nws. Morrissey, thaum ua haujlwm hauv Virginia House of Delegates, tau tawm ntawm qhov chaw ua haujlwm hauv 2014 tom qab nws raug txim los ntawm kev txhawb nqa kev ua phem rau menyuam yaus, qhov kev foob uas tshwm sim los ntawm nws txoj kev sib raug zoo nrog 17-xyoo-laus tus neeg txais tos hauv nws lub chaw lis haujlwm cai lij choj. Tom qab ntawd nws yeej qhov kev xaiv tsa tshwj xeeb los ua nws lub rooj zaum thaum ua haujlwm hauv tsev loj cuj hauv xyoo 2015.
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64%. Qhov ntawd yog qhov feem ntawm cov pov npav McEachin yeej los rov xaiv dua thaum nws tau tawm tsam Benjamin thaum lub Kaum Ib Hlis.
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Cov Democrats hauv Virginia Xaiv Jennifer McClellan hauv Tsev Kawm Ntawv Tshwj Xeeb (Lub New York Times)
Virginia Rep. Donald McEachin tuag thaum muaj hnub nyoog 61 (CNN)
Tau qhov twg los: https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2022/12/22/virginia-state-senator-likely-to-make-history-as-states-first-black-congresswomanwho-is-jennifer- mccellan/