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City Council member Janeese Lewis George, a democratic socialist, leads the pack in the Democratic primary for mayor of Washington, D.C., as the city continues to tally later-arriving ballots.<\/p>\n

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With about two-thirds of the expected vote counted, Lewis George has 53% of the first-place votes, with former City Council member Kenyan McDuffie \u2014 who previously held a citywide at-large council seat \u2014 in second place at 37%. The rest of the vote is scattered among five other Democratic hopefuls.<\/p>\n

With more votes to count, it\u2019s not clear whether the race will go to a ranked-choice tabulation, which is necessary if no candidate gets a majority of first-place votes. In that scenario, support from lower-performing candidates is reallocated to those voters\u2019 next choices until one candidate gets a majority of the vote.<\/p>\n

In either case, Lewis George has built up a commanding position against her main rival, McDuffie, as she seeks to become the latest democratic socialist to take up a big-city mayorship in the U.S. \u2014 with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani the most prominent example.<\/p>\n

In Washington, the candidates have sparred for months as they pitched the city on how they plan to lower crime and make life in the nation\u2019s capital more affordable.<\/p>\n

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They also spent significant time discussing how they would handle the capital\u2019s relationship with the Trump administration and Republicans in Congress.<\/p>\n

Retiring Mayor Muriel Bowser has had an at-times friendly and at-times tense relationship with President Donald Trump. During the first year of his second term, Trump deployed National Guard troops to Washington and other cities across the U.S. run by Democratic mayors in a bid to lower crime rates, a move Bowser opposed but accepted.<\/p>\n

Bowser told Axios earlier this month that the new mayor will have to promote a \u201cbetter business climate\u201d in the nation\u2019s capital and added, \u201cI support Kenyan McDuffie.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Last week, Trump shook up the race when he told reporters at the White House that \u201cwe won\u2019t put up with it\u201d if Lewis George wins. He added that he would consider a federal takeover of Washington if she won.<\/p>\n

In statements following his remarks, both Lewis George and McDuffie rebuked Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cThreatening Home Rule because you do not like how residents vote is an attack on democracy itself. The people of D.C. elect the mayor of D.C. And they want someone who will stand up to Donald Trump,\u201d Lewis George said.<\/p>\n

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McDuffie said, \u201cThe stakes of this election couldn\u2019t be higher, but D.C. decides who will be the next mayor, not Donald Trump.\u201d<\/p>\n

McDuffie and Lewis George are also on opposite sides of a debate about whether to expand youth curfews around the city, with McDuffie supporting the curfews as a \u201ccommon sense\u201d policy and Lewis George opposing expanding them. <\/p>\n

The candidate who wins the primary will be a heavy favorite in the general election in the deep-blue city.<\/p>\n

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Lewis George, a member of the City Council, has a significant edge over her nearest rival, Kenyan McDuffie, with about two-thirds of the vote counted and the race too early to call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-election"],"yoast_head":"\nDemocratic socialist Janeese Lewis George opens up lead in Washington, D.C., mayoral primary - Trusted Moving Group<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/trustedmovinggroups.com\/?p=1324\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George opens up lead in Washington, D.C., mayoral primary - 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