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Janeese Lewis George won the Washington, D.C. Democratic mayoral primary, with AP projecting her victory after Kenyan R. McDuffie conceded; her campaign emphasized workers’ rights and affordability, positioning her to become the nation’s capital’s first democratic socialist mayor.
The District’s Office of Campaign Finance fined mayoral candidate Janeese Lewis George’s campaign $16,000 after investigators found improper coordination with labor unions and an independent expenditure committee that spent about $1 million supporting her; the union-backed group Safe & Affordable DC was fined $4,000. Lewis George’s campaign denies wrongdoing and plans to appeal the ruling.