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Think the Women's March made a difference? Yep
The twitter account has a great synopsis of all the women who won yesterday across the country.
https://mobile.twitter.com/womensmarch?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
In Virginia alone:
Female Vietnamese refugee beat an incumbent
Two Latino women beat incumbents
A transgender woman beat a long time (26 years) incumbent who also was proudly an asshole
And - this was a local SHOCKER - Dawn Addams beat Manoli Loupassi.
As I read in a Richmond Times-Dispatch article the state DNC chair said that right after the disaster a year ago today it started "raining candidates". They had their pick of who to run in several races.
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Too funny
