State senator, Indian immigrant, pulls upset in Virginia Democratic lieutenant governor's race

State Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, D-Chester, has won the Democratic information for Virginia's lieutenant governorship, according to the Associated Press. 

Hashmi, an migrant from India, said connected her run tract that she is the lone campaigner "endorsed by some termination rights groups and labor."

Hashmi was locked successful a adjacent contention with the apical 2 contenders, erstwhile Green Bay Packers information Aaron Rouse and ex-Richmond Mayor Levar Stoney.

Hashmi volition look GOP nominee John Reid successful the state's wide predetermination successful November.

Stoney, who conceded connected Wednesday, moved connected to go politician of Richmond, the superior city, and oversaw the removal of respective Confederate sculptures that for decades lined the celebrated Monument Avenue from the Fan District to downtown.

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Drivers are welcomed to Virginia adjacent Lee Highway successful Arlington. (Getty)

In the Washington Post astatine the time, Stoney wrote that determination "are 2 epidemics successful America: COVID-19 and racism. One is present 14 months old, the different implicit 400 years old. Both are lethal. I knew I wasn’t going to beryllium capable to cure those issues that time [standing with protesters astatine Lee Circle]."

More recently, Stoney told the Virginia Mercury that helium volition efficaciously enactment crossed the aisle successful the lieutenant governor’s dual relation of president of the Virginia State Senate.

"We volition not hold connected everything, and that is OK. I volition beryllium a blessed warrior—someone who is consenting to basal steadfast connected values, talk up erstwhile determination is disagreement, and inactive find a mode to enactment unneurotic erstwhile communal crushed exists. Disagreement does not person to pb to dysfunction," Stoney said.

Rouse has positioned himself arsenic a unit to antagonistic Republican enactment successful Washington, penning connected his run tract that helium "stood up to Donald Trump clip and again."

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He added that helium shepherded a instrumentality done the legislature to support national workers from Department of Government Efficiency attrition, which helium labeled "Musk’s chaos."

Other candidates successful the contention included authorities Sen. Ghazala Hashmi, D-Chesterfield, Prince William County School Board Chair Dr. Babur Lateef and national person Alexander Bastani.

Hashmi, whose region straight abuts Richmond-Petersburg, positioned herself arsenic a progressive who emphasized enactment for nationalist education, termination rights and affordable housing.

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She besides serves arsenic chairwoman of the Senate Education and Health Committee successful Richmond.

Lateef, an ophthalmologist endorsed by McAuliffe, besides focused connected acquisition policy.

Bastani partially self-funded his quixotic run and focused connected labour and economical issues.

Former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, D-Va., ran unopposed for the Democratic gubernatorial information and was officially projected specified Tuesday evening.