The original content of Democracy Now! Headlines appears under the Creative
Commons BY-NC-ND 3.0 License (United States). For more, including their other
shows and media, visit www.democracynow.org.
August 15, 2018

Christine Hallquist Becomes First Transgender Major-Party Gubernatorial Nominee
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Primaries were held in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Connecticut and Vermont
Tuesday, where Christine Hallquist made history by becoming the first
openly transgender major-party gubernatorial nominee in U.S. history.
She easily won the Democratic primary and will now face Republican
Vermont Governor Phil Scott in November. If she wins, she'll become the
nation's first transgender governor. Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders also
easily won his Democratic Senate primary, though he's expected to run in
November as an independent.


.