Latanya West and Vayunamu Bawa
Photo credit: Vayunamu Bawa
On Super Tuesday, March 3rd local resident, Debra Maxie, (holding the Todd Gloria sign), joined other community members, volunteers, candidates, and elected officials to follow the ballot results rolling in at the San Diego County Democratic Party’s Election Night gathering in downtown San Diego. On Super Tuesday voters in fourteen states and one U.S. territory cast ballots to show their support for presidential nominees, local elected officials, and local ballot measures in the run up to the November 3, 2020 U.S. Presidential Election and San Diego General Election. Final results are still coming in.
“It’s just as important for us to get out and vote at every election, not wait for the big ones. It’s also just as important to get counted in the Census,” Maxie said.
Political Strategist Dawn Hendon, who worked on Raquel Vazquez’s Lemon Grove mayoral campaign, commented on the impact of the Black perspective in the San Diego County mayoral race.
“I heard Tasha Williamson talk about her strategies and they were very sharp. When you hear your opponents picking them up and saying them, you know you’re onto something. I think if people see us, they think about us, if they don’t, they don’t.”
At press time, in California Bernie Sanders led Joe Biden for the Democratic Party Presidential nomination. Locally, Juan Vargas (51st District), Scott Peters (52nd District), Sara Jacobs (53rd District) and Ammar Campa-Najjar (50th District) were leading the runoffs against their opponents for U.S. Representative in their respective districts. Mara Elliot led in the City Attorney race, and State Assemblyman Todd Gloria will likely be one of two runoff candidates in the race for Mayor of San Diego to be held in November 2020.
