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 candidate and 11 write-ins lacking political clout. Now she faces her first potential heavyweight hurdles, including President Donald Trump himself, who has inserted himself in local affairs and denounced the incoming mayor as a threat to the capital city.
