D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser won the Democratic primary Tuesday with more support from majority-White areas than majority-Black ones.
“They need to throw all them signs in the trash,” she muttered loudly, then shouted toward the workers, “No more Bowser!”
Wendell Felder, chair of the Ward 7 Democrats, spoke for many of his neighbors in the mostly east-of-the-Anacostia, majority-Black ward when he said he trusts Bowser. “She is a battle-tested leader and what the city needs right now,” he said. He’ appreciated that she has worked to build affordable housing and grocery stores, two of Ward 7’s most pressing needs — and that she led the city through a pandemic and the Trump administration.
to feel confident that she is improving the city for them. In a February Washington Post poll, 60 percent of White residents said D.C. was on the right track, and 54 percent of Black residents said the city was moving in the wrong direction. She sees Bowser as encouraging the gentrification, not helping people like her. “She sells out to the developers. A lot of things that are being done are not benefiting us,” Parks said.
one of her opponents, Ward 8 Council member Trayon White Sr., who received 201 fewer votes there than Bowser. “So I think that we did very well.”
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