This June, LGBTQ Victory Fund is supporting over 80 LGBTQ candidates in competitive primaries on the campaign trail! Check out how many of our candidates have won so far…
Preliminary results from 06/28 races in Colorado, Illinois, New York, and Oklahoma! 71% of our candidates won this week, while 50% of our non-incumbents were successful. Nearly all incumbents are likely to advance to November!
New York State Assemblymember Deborah Glick fended off an insurgent primary opponent by a 39-point margin and Tony Simone defeated his four Democratic rivals for a Manhattan State Assembly seat. Oklahoma State Rep. Mauree Turner won their two-way primary by a massive 57-point margin.
Other winners includes:
Ruby Dickson, Colorado House of Representatives
David Ortiz, Colorado House of Representatives
Brianna Titone, Colorado House of Representatives
Mike Simmons, Illinois State Senate
Lamont Robinson, Illinois House of Representatives
Michael Weaver, Cook County Circuit Court Judge
Maggie Trevor, Cook County Commission
Anthony Vega, Lake County Clerk
Anthony Quezada, Cook County Commission
Dustin Heuerman, Champaign County Sheriff
Kevin Morrison, Cook County Commission
Daniel O’Donnell, New York State Assembly
Deborah J Glick, New York State Assembly
Harry Bronson, New York State Assembly
Jessica González-Rojas, New York State Assembly
Arlyn Bradshaw, Salt Lake County Council
We are still waiting for results from Samy Nemir Olivares’ race for the New York State Assembly and from Derek Kitchen’s reelection campaign to the Utah state Senate. Stay tuned!
Eric Sorensen
U.S. House of Representatives
Eric Sorensen came out on top in his six-way competitive Democratic primary for Illinois’ 17th Congressional District. He will face anti-abortion and anti-LGBTQ Republican Esther Joy King this November in a D+3 toss-up rated race. Eric will be the first out LGBTQ person elected to the U.S. Congress from Illinois!
Jared Polis
Governor of Colorado
Jared Polis shattered a lavendar ceiling when he became the out gay man elected governor in the United States. During his time in office, he’s passed pro-equality legislation and led the state’s COVID-19 response, to great applause. Now, he’ll face homophobe and anti-choice candidate Heidi Ganahl.
If you are an out candidate running at any level of government, we want to hear from you! Learn more about our endorsement process or sign up for an endorsement here.
More information about all of Victory Fund’s endorsed candidates is available at victoryfund.org/ourcandidates. Since 1991, Victory Fund has helped thousands of openly LGBTQ candidates win local, state and federal elections.
