The Daily 202: Primary results prove 2018 will be a breakthrough year for Democratic diversity
Primary results prove 2018 will be a breakthrough year for Democratic diversity ‘No one is unseen, no one is unheard’: Stacey Abrams celebrates victory in Georgia BY JAMES HOHMANN with Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve THE BIG IDEA: This will not just be another year of the woman. Primaries across four Southern states on Tuesday showed that 2018 is the year of the minority woman. Four years ago, Democrats nominated just two racial minorities for governor. Both were men: Anthony Brown in Maryland and David Ige in Hawaii. This year, with the same 36 states holding gubernatorial contests, Democrats have already nominated three minority women. And it’s only May. On Tuesday, Georgia Democrats gave former State House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams, 44, a shot to become the first black, female governor in American history. She crushed Stacey Evans, who is white and argued that the way to win is to app...