Two transgender
women, 30 year old Misty K. Snow (Democrat), a grocery store clerk from Salt
Lake City, Utah and 33 year old Misty Plowright (Democrat) who is a
military
veteran and works in IT in Colorado won their state primaries on Tuesday night
and have been selected to run for spots in the US Congress in November. This
will be a first in major-party American political history.
Misty K. Snow will
run against Republican favorite Sen.
Mike Lee in Utah this November, while Misty Plowright will challenge Rep. Doug
Lamborn in Colorado.
Snow beat her
primary opponent, Jonathan Swinton, by almost 20% points, criticizing him for
supporting limitations on abortion rights, according to a Salt Lake Tribune
report.
“While I’m not
running on the basis of being a trans woman, my experiences as a trans woman
have given me the empathy to understand the struggles of groups that feel that
the American Dream is out of reach,” Snow said in her statement. “I’m running
to give a voice to the voiceless.”
Plowright, on the
other hand earned the Democratic nomination in Colorado by winning more than
13,000 votes while her opponent earned just over 9,600.
Both, if elected,
would be the party’s first transgender women in U.S. Congress
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