Diversity sweeps through the midterm elections in the United States

Colorado chooses the first openly gay governor of the United States

GAYLES.TV.- In the intermediate elections of 2018 in United States It has devastated diversity. For the first time in history, two Native American women, a Somali refugee or the first openly gay man will take power.

The democrat Jared Polis will be the first openly homosexual governor of United States. The historic achievement of -Polis means that the democrats will retain the governorship in Colorado and that LGBT + community it will ensure an unusual representation at the state level. Polis will succeed the Democrat John Hickenlooper and has beaten the Republican candidate Walker Stapleton. Let us remember that in 2008 he had already been the first openly gay man chosen for the House of Representatives.

-Polis he was one of several candidates from the community LGBT + who competed for some governorship in this cycle, among them Oregon Brown or the democrat Lupe Valdez de Texas. En Vermont, the Democratic candidate Christine Hallquist, who had already made history as the first candidate transgender to governor by one of the two main parties, could not beat the Republican governor Phil Scott.

It is worth mentioning the historical achievements of the community LGBT + in American politics. The Democratic governor of Oregon Kate Brownwho is identified as bisexual, was the first person in the community LGBT + in being elected as governor. And in New Jersey the former governor of Jim mcgreevey He was recognized as gay before resigning at the beginning of the 2000 decade.

Women power

Sharice Davids y Deb Haaland they will be the first Native American women to be elected to Congress. The republican Marsha blackburn will be the first woman senator for the state of Tennessee. Arizona is guaranteed to see his first female senator, the contest was between the Democrat Kyrsten Sinema and the republican Martha McSally. The republican Kristi Noem will be the first female governor of Dakota del Sur. Voters in Texas They chose for the first time two Latina women for the Congress: Veronica Escobar y Sylvia Garcia. Ilhan Omar, riding a Minnesota, and Rashida Tlaib, riding a Michigan, will be the first Muslim women to reach United States Congress.