WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 -- Democrats in the U.S. state of Vermont on Tuesday night nominated the country's first transgender gubernatorial candidate for a major party, while in Minnesota, former governor Tim Pawlenty, once an open critic of President Donald Trump, lost his reelection bid in Republican primaries.
It was a resurgence night for progressives, the liberal factions of the Democratic Party, in the primaries across four midwest and northeastern states of Minnesota, Connecticut, Wisconsin and Vermont on Tuesday.
Christine Hallquist, a transgender woman, won Vermont governor's Democratic primary. In Connecticut, an African-American who grew up in public housing won a nomination to the U.S. House of Representatives. In Minnesota, Democratic primary winner Ilhan Omar will become the nation's first Somali-American immigrant in Congress if she wins the mid-term elections in November.
Senator Bernie Sanders, a popular leader of progressives, easily won Vermont's Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday but was expected to turn down the nomination, as he did in his previous campaigns, and campaign as an independent.
"You can feel the progressive earthquake from Milwaukee to Danbury to Burlington," said Joe Dinkin, a progressive activist. "A new generation of trailblazing progressives are running, and they' re running without the backing of any political machines."
However, in the midwest, it seems Democrats are arming themselves with general election candidates widely considered palatable to a broader electorate than the party's progressive base, local analysts say.
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