In this crucial midterm election season, democracy is on the ballot, and that’s real. Issues such as reproductive justice, voting rights and many basic freedoms hang in the balance as Trump acolytes hope to take power at the state and federal level, gain control of the electoral process to steal elections and wipe away our civil rights.
In numerous statewide races around the country, a new generation of bold and dynamic Black leadership is running for office, and many are favored to win. Black turnout will be crucial. Running against MAGA ideologues and election deniers, insurrectionists and outright white nationalists, these Black hopefuls are on the frontlines of the war for the future of America.
One of the youngest of these candidates is Austin Davis, 32, the Democratic nominee for lieutenant governor in Pennsylvania. In Pennsylvania—where candidates for governor and lieutenant governor run separately in the primary and the party nominees run together as a pair in the November general election—Davis won two-thirds of the vote and carried every county in the state. He joins Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the Democratic gubernatorial nominee, on the November ballot. Polls suggest Austin Davis is poised to become the first Black lieutenant governor of the Keystone State.
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