R.I. will send one 'uncommitted' delegate to Democratic Party convention
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.
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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