Joyce Elliott, an Arkansas state senator who is seeking a U.S. congressional seat in November, was the second Black student to attend her local ...
Joyce Elliot, a Democratic U.S. congressional candidate for Arkansas' 2nd district which represents Little Rock and the surrounding areas, works from her office in Little Rock, Arkansas, U.S., July 20, 2020. Picture taken July 20, 2020. REUTERS/Gerard MatthewsWASHINGTON: Joyce Elliott, an Arkansas state senator who is seeking a US congressional seat in November, was the second Black student to attend her local public high school; the first was her older sister.
Elliott is one of at least 122 Black or multi-racial Black women who filed to run for congressional seats in this year's election; this figure has increased steadily since 2012, when it was 48, according to the Center for American Women and Politics . But Black women voters showed the highest participation rate of any group in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections.
Several of the eight Black women congressional candidates Reuters spoke to said they relate to voters better than their often wealthier opponents, because they, too, have lived through fiscal hardships. "It really has just amplified and co-signed what I was already talking about with voters," such as the importance of agriculture and expanding Medicaid, said Alabama's Adia McClellan-Winfrey, a psychologist and chair of the Talladega County Democratic Party.
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