Candidates for D.C. mayor, attorney general and city council are making a last-minute push for votes before the June 21 Democratic primary.
Bowser cast her ballot as a throng of her “Green Team” supporters waited for her outside — then emerged to keep drumming up more votes as D.C.'s 10-day early voting period neared its end and Election Day itself looms on Tuesday.
If anyone doubts that election season is at its peak in the District, they need only stop by Turkey Thicket, where the sidewalk is lined by a true thicket of campaign sign after campaign sign. Several of the Democratic candidates running for Ward 5′s council seat have set up adjacent tents and camped out there, asking for votes for days on end; on Thursday, Bowser posed for photos with some of them, including Faith Gibson Hubbard and Gordon Fletcher, and walked past Vincent B.
Rev. Graylan Hagler, Trayon White’s campaign chair, said the candidate spent part of this week campaigning at the D.C. jail, where inmates have the right to vote, and in senior-housing facilities. On Friday afternoon, White, who has advertised much of his campaign on Instagram, will lead a “march to the polls” geared toward youth. The march starts at The Big Chair on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue SE and ends at Barry Farm Recreation Center, where White plans to cast his ballot, Hagler said.
Almost all of the Democratic candidates in other races plan to knock on doors or canvass at polling places over the weekend, and some have come up with events to make their final appeal to voters: Gibson Hubbard plans to host a kettlebell workout class Monday morning, calling her event “Exercise Your Right to Vote.” Attorney general candidate Bruce V. Spiva invited his supporters to a “Pre-Juneteenth” meet-and-greet downtown on Friday.This year’s primary is the first in which the D.C.
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