DC mayoral candidates contend with Trump's shadow
President Donald Trump’s shadow looms large over the upcoming Washington, D.C., mayoral election, as the two leading contenders insist that their relationship with the White House will be less chummy than that of the city’s outgoing mayor.
As they canvas Washington ahead of a June primary, Janeese Lewis George and Kenyan McDuffie, the two frontrunners to replace Mayor Muriel Bowser in City Hall, are both contending with the spectre of the district’s most famous — and powerful — resident.
Both of them argue the president merits a more heavy-handed approach than the light touch taken by Bowser.
“We haven’t won anything but a false sense of freedom that’s not based on a reality that we are experiencing as everyday residents,” Lewis George, the more progressive of the two, said in an interview. “We are living in a military state here in D.C., and we are militarily occupied. And we have federal agents who are enforcing laws in our streets.”
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