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WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s official — Janeese Lewis George will be the new mayor of Washington, D.C. She practically ran unopposed in Tuesday’s general election after winning the Democratic primary earlier this year.
Now the question is what comes next for the 38-year-old politician who joins Zohran Mamdani in New York City and Katie Wilson in Seattle in a small club of democratic socialist municipal leaders.
Winning was easy as Lewis George breezed past an independent, a Statehood Green Party
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