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A protest against US policy on the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza won 15.2 percent of the vote in R.I.’s 2nd Congressional District.

President Biden and former president Trump won the Democratic and Republican primaries while Democratic voters sent a message over the administration’s response to the Israel-Hamas war.

In November’s special election for the First Congressional District seat, voters wrote in the names of Aaron Regunberg, Sandra Cano, Miguel Sanchez, Larry Hutchinson, and Donald Trump.

“In those 233 years, Rhode Island has never sent an African-American or any person of color to Congress — until today,” Representative Magaziner said in introducing Amo on the House floor.

Amo, a former White House aide in the Obama and Biden administrations, beat Republican Gerry W. Leonard Jr. in Tuesday’s special election to fill Rhode Island’s First Congressional District seat

Gerry Leonard says Gabe Amo is “disrespecting voters by not debating the issues,” but Amo says he is looking forward to two televised debates before the Nov. 7 election.

The former White House aide is heavily favored to win the Nov. 7 general election in Rhode Island’s more left-leaning congressional district. Amo would be the first person of color from Rhode Island elected to federal office.

On the Rhode Island Report podcast, Steph Machado and Jim Hummel analyze what propelled the former White House aide to victory in Tuesday’s First Congressional District race.

The congressional candidate says he now endorses fellow candidate Sandra Cano.

The back-to-back big-name endorsements come five days before the Sept. 5 primary in the First Congressional District race.