Racial Factors in Dem Runoff for Georgia Secretary of State |  apartment

ATLANTA (AP) — The Democratic primary for Georgia’s secretary of state — the top election official in a critical swing state — could boil down to questions about how party loyalists view diversity and black women’s representation.

Rep. Bee Nguyen, the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants, is the frontrunner in the June 21 runoff and has raised far more money than former Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler, who is black. Nguyen is joined by Stacey Abrams, the Georgia gubernatorial nominee whose organizing efforts have been widely lauded for spurring President Joe Biden’s narrow victory here in 2020.

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