Nina Turner's Concession Speech Teases Presidential Bid After Ohio Loss

Newsweak ^ | 5/04/22 | Darragh Roche

[Libloather]

Progressive Democrat Nina Turner teased a 2024 presidential bid during a concession speech on Tuesday after she was defeated in her bid to challenge Democratic Representative Shontel Brown.

Brown defeated Turner with 66.3 percent of the vote to 33.7 percent in Ohio's 11th congressional district.

Turner had read most of her concession speech from her phone but toward the end of her remarks, she said she would speak "extemporaneously" and stopped reading.

"Sister Turner ain't going nowhere," Turner said and the crowed applauded and cheered.

Turner made reference to the late former Representative Shirley Chisholm, the first Black woman ever elected to Congress.

Turner said that the money spent against her came in "because they know in the halls of Congress that I was gonna shake that sucker on behalf of the poor - the working poor - and the barely middle class."

"They can't contain this Black girl magic," Turner said. "'Cause what I am gonna do is I'mma take this magic all over this country and shake it that way. And baby, 2024 is coming."

"And I think the great state of California got something to say about what Sister Turner should do," she said. "The great state of Iowa got something to say about what Sister Turner should do. The great state of Nevada got something to say about what Sister Turner should do."

"We ain't going nowhere," she said. "They just reinforced my resolve and that just like King James - LeBron James decided to take his skills to South Beach - well what Sister Turner is gonna do is to continue taking my skills all over this nation I'mma see some folks in 2024."

[Milagros]

Glad she lost to Ms Brown.