Socialist Washington, D.C. mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George is leading in her bid to replace outgoing mayor Muriel Bowser, with 52.6% of the vote after 66% of the votes had been counted.

Trump’s Response

President Trump has suggested that he would order another federal takeover of Washington D.C. if the ‘crazy socialist’ mayoral candidate was elected. George called Trump’s threat an ‘attack on democracy itself’.

The nation’s capital has been at the center of the Trump administration’s nationwide crackdown on crime during his second term, and he sent the National Guard into the district last year, which proponents have argued directly correlates to plummeting violent crime numbers.

George, who has become the Democratic frontrunner, leads a race that will likely decide the winner of the general race in a city where roughly 75% of voters are registered Democrats. Washington, D.C. is using ranked-choice voting for the first time, which could delay the certification of an official winner.

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