Jordanian-born Muslim wins Democrat primary for Georgia State Senate
With 99 percent of the vote counted as of 9:03 am on Wednesday, Romman had received 60.1 percent of the vote.
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With 99 percent of the vote counted as of 9:03 am on Wednesday, Romman had received 60.1 percent of the vote.
Georgia State Senate candidate Ruwa Romman has won the Democrat nomination following a runoff race on Tuesday. Romman had advanced to the runoff after a tight primary race where she faced civil rights attorney Rahul Garabadu, in which neither candidate cracked 50%.
With 99 percent of the vote counted as of 9:03 am on Wednesday, Romman had received 60.1 percent of the vote in the race for District 7, while Garabadu received 39.9 percent.
Romman became the first Muslim woman in the Georgia State House and Palestinian American elected to a state office in 2022 and is now a step closer to the State Senate. On her campaign website, she says she was born in Jordan and is the granddaughter of Palestinian refugees.
Romman has vowed in her campaign promises to "protect Georgians from ICE, saying that "ICE has terrorized our communities and rounded up people regardless of immigration status. They are now also buying up warehouses against the will of local officials and residents." She has also vowed to "restore access to life saving care like abortions," and raise the minimum wage to at least $15 per hour.
"We are ecstatic and extremely proud of the race that we won, even though we were outraised and outspent. This was a moment where the many beat the money," Romman told Access North Georgia on runoff night. "When you're the only or the first, it's a huge responsibility, but the hope is that I'm not the last," Romman said.
"The Democrat party is being taken over by Islamists, and no one is saying a word," commentator Eyal Yakoby warned.
https://twitter.com/EYakoby/status/2067110095821983957?s=20
RAIR Foundation founder Amy Mek wrote, "This is the radical left and CAIR-style activism installing another identity-politics operative into state government. Georgia Republicans better treat this seriously. The Democratic Party is increasingly captured by these networks, and pretending otherwise is how you lose ground one district at a time."
https://twitter.com/AmyMek/status/2067074109612458386?s=20
Romman will face real estate broker Aizaz Shaikh in the Nov. 3 general election, who ran unopposed in the Republican Primary.
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