US Midterm Elections 2 ／ US Midterm Elections 12 Governors Record High Democratic Majority | international

2022/11/17 11:48(Update 11/17/12:35)

When Hobbs, D-US, is sworn in as governor of Arizona in early January next year, she will become the fifth female governor in the state’s history. (Image from facebook.com/hobbskatie)

When the midterm elections were held in the United States on November 8, voters marched to the polls amid economic stagnation and inflation. The Republican Party has threatened to wrest control of both houses of Congress from the Democrats, and if this is the case, then Democratic President Joe Biden will be restricted by Congress, and he may be paralyzed in the last two years of his term. Another significance of Republican control of both houses of Congress is that former President Trump may be inspired to return and compete for the White House in 2024.

DEMONT, Iowa (Reuters) – The United States will see a record 12 women be sworn in as governors this winter, but that number is only a fraction of the 50 states.

According to reports from the Associated Press (AP) and CNN, the previous record was 9 in 2004.

Going from nine provinces to 12 “isn’t incremental growth,” said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center on American Women and Politics at Rutgers University. When it comes to women CEOs, we’re still far from political equality. “But it seems like a huge breakthrough,” she said.

“The most remarkable thing is that, in many ways, these women have broken the stereotype of who should be the CEO of an already hard-to-win country,” she said.

Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who served as White House press secretary in the Trump administration, will inherit the mantle of his father Mike Huckabee and become governor of Arkansas, the first female governor in the state’s history; When Katie Hobbs is sworn in. Governor of Arizona in early January next year, she will become the fifth woman in the history of the state.

The majority of the 12 governors are Democrats, 8, and 4 are Republicans, which is consistent with the fact that there are more Democratic women elected officials than Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives and state legislatures.

These 12 governors set many other “firsts,” including governors-elect Tina Kotick of Oregon and Maura Healy of Massachusetts, and would become the first lesbian governors in history; Kate Brown, a Democrat who is stepping down as governor of Oregon, is bisexual. She wrote a new page in 2014, becoming the first elected governor of the United States and an LGBTQ (gay, bisexual, transgender, queer) female.

Despite these gains, only one woman has been elected governor. New Mexico Latino Governor Michel Lujan Grisham was re-elected; Three African-American Democrats, Stacy Abrams, Deidre DeGeer and Yolanda Flowers, were re-elected last week in Georgia, Iowa and Alabama, losing to three Republicans seeking re-election. .

Other selectees included Gov. Kay Ivey of Alabama, Kim Reynolds of Iowa, Kristi Noem of South Dakota; Democrats include Kathy Hochul of New York State, Janet Mills of Maine, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan and Laura Kelly of Kansas. (Translator: Cai Jiamin / Verified manuscript: Li Peishan) 1111117

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