No Black woman has ever been elected governor, and there are no Black women serving in the U.S. Senate after Kamala Harris vacated her seat to become vice president. That could change this year.
, including Stacey Abrams, who is making another bid for Georgia governor, and U.S. Rep. Val Demings, who is challenging Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla.
Abrams, Demings and Beasley are among the few already favored to win their primaries. That’s especially rare considering where they’re running, said Kelly Dittmar, the director of research at Rutgers’ Center for American Women and Politics.“When we talk about where Black women have been successful in statewide contests, it has been outside of the South,” she said.
Persistent racism, sexism and the perception that Black women can’t win Republican states have stymied statewide hopefuls in primaries in the past. All three have tapped into energy among grassroots Democratic donors. Their early success has also been years in the making. “This race has been about building upon relationships that we've long ago established across the state,” Beasley said.
“There really are the financial and political barriers that prevent people from running,” Beasley said, later adding, ”We would have more than zero African American women in the Senate if there were no challenges to running.”
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