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Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George to be next mayor of Washington DC
The Guardian ^ | Thu 18 Jun 2026

Posted on 06/18/2026 12:14:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

Democratic socialist Janeese Lewis George is slated to be the next mayor of Washington DC after her opponent conceded on Thursday.

Lewis George, a city council member, ran on a platform of expanding childcare, education and housing, and revoking the district’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.

In the city’s first ranked-choice voting election, she succeeded in securing the Democratic nomination in a party stronghold, fending off another former city council member, Kenyan McDuffie.

McDuffie had run a campaign more focused on public safety and local businesses. Now, Lewis George will be on the ballot in November’s general election, where she will likely run unopposed.

“Earlier this morning, I called Councilmember Janeese Lewis George to congratulate her on her victory and wish her success as she prepares for the general election,” McDuffie said in a statement.

Donald Trump loomed large over Washington’s primary elections, including threatening to expand federal control over the city if Lewis George won. In the past year, the president has deployed the national guard in the city, and supported widespread immigration enforcement.

The city is also still reeling from blows to the federal work force after the Trump administration and Elon Musk’s “department of government efficiency” slashed entire agencies last year. DC unemployment remains among the highest in the nation.

(Excerpt) Read more at theguardian.com ...


TOPICS: US: District of Columbia
KEYWORDS: repealhomerule

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1 posted on 06/18/2026 12:14:45 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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Dems keep going from bad to worse. basically they are electing outright communists.


2 posted on 06/18/2026 12:17:59 PM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: MinorityRepublican

The National Socialist Democrat Workers Party gaining ground


3 posted on 06/18/2026 12:22:23 PM PDT by eyeamok
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To: MinorityRepublican

Well, the residents of the District Of Corruption made their bed, now they can sleep in it.


4 posted on 06/18/2026 12:22:28 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: 1Old Pro

We need to go full Pinochet before it’s too late.


5 posted on 06/18/2026 12:22:50 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: 1Old Pro

Once Trump is gone and the anti everything Trump Dems will look back at the mess their TDS created and wonder what they have done to themselves.


6 posted on 06/18/2026 12:23:07 PM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: eyeamok

And we all know what happened in Germany when they put national socialists in power.


7 posted on 06/18/2026 12:23:39 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: No name given

Thankfully, the wrong country for that.


8 posted on 06/18/2026 12:24:16 PM PDT by Fury
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To: 1Old Pro

No one is stopping them. Certainly not conservatives, many of whom hate when things get “messy”.


9 posted on 06/18/2026 12:25:01 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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Trump will have to get Congress to repeal The District of Columbia Home Rule Act of 1973 a Nixon-era bill. Something that should be done but won’t!


10 posted on 06/18/2026 12:28:27 PM PDT by Reily
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The DC area will be destroyed with a new Dem POTUS. The next Dem go around they will remove any and all remnants of American history that can be destroyed.


11 posted on 06/18/2026 12:38:25 PM PDT by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: MinorityRepublican

How are these scumbags even allowed to run? None of them can take an oath to the Constitution, because their ideologies are a direct threat to the American ideology and to the Constitution.


12 posted on 06/18/2026 12:39:05 PM PDT by dware (Americans prefer peaceful slavery over dangerous freedom)
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Uh-huh


13 posted on 06/18/2026 12:47:11 PM PDT by sauropod (Uh)
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One loser after another...


14 posted on 06/18/2026 12:47:29 PM PDT by oil_dude
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....”Lewis George, a city council member, ran on a platform of expanding childcare, education and housing, and revoking the district’s cooperation with federal immigration enforcement.”

Wow...just what DeeCee needs...a mayor who VOWS to end her district’s cooperation with the Feds...


15 posted on 06/18/2026 12:48:40 PM PDT by TokarevM57 ( )
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To: No name given

Yuri Bezmenof warned us in the 80s, McCarthy in the 50s. Too few heeded them.


16 posted on 06/18/2026 12:50:12 PM PDT by Phoenix8
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“Do not mention the war!”


17 posted on 06/18/2026 12:52:13 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore (The world continues to be stuck in a "all leftist, all of the time" funk. BUNK THE FUNK)
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Janeese....


18 posted on 06/18/2026 12:59:42 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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>>Dems keep going from bad to worse. basically they are electing outright communists.

The Rats alwsys elected outright commies, The only change now is that they just used to deny it.


19 posted on 06/18/2026 1:09:30 PM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Oh good...I was so worried they couldn’t find a big fat black woman.


20 posted on 06/18/2026 1:13:02 PM PDT by Mashood
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