Early voting begins Wednesday in the special primary election to fill Marcia Fudge s seat
Early voting begins Wed. in special primary for Fudge s seat
and last updated 2021-07-06 18:21:30-04
CLEVELAND â The first votes in the race to replace Marcia Fudge in Congress will be cast Wednesday morning at 8 a.m. as early voting gets underway at the Cuyahoga and Summit County boards of elections in the August 3 special election primary.
On the Democratic side, there 13 hopefuls running for the nomination, but much attention has been focused on a race between primarily two: former State Senator Nina Turner and Cuyahoga Councilwoman and Democratic Party Chair Shontel Brown.
Democratic Party establishment lines up against Nina Turner in Ohio congressional election
In a highly unusual intervention into a primary contest, House Majority Whip James Clyburn has endorsed Shontel Brown, a Cuyahoga County councilwoman, over Nina Turner, the former national co-chair of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, in Ohio’s 11th Congressional District.
Nina Turner (Flickr)
The special election was called after Representative Marcia Fudge stepped down to head the Department of Housing and Urban Development in the Biden administration. The primary is set for August 3, with the winner nearly certain to win the general election November 2, in a district which has given 80 percent of its vote to the Democrats for three decades.
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