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Casting herself as a unifier after two years of tumult, Democrat Vi Lyles easily defeated Republican Kenny Smith on Tuesday to become Charlotte’s first African-American female mayor.
Lyles took about 58 percent to Smith’s 42 percent in unofficial returns. She carried precincts throughout the city, including a handful in south Charlotte.
Despite being heavily outspent, she won on a night Democrats flexed their muscles not only in Charlotte but in Virginia and New Jersey, where they swept state races.
Overall turnout was about 20 percent, higher than officials predicted. (<------THIS IS WHY THE REPUBLICANS TRY TO CREATE BARRIERS TO VOTING. THEY LOSE WHEN MORE PEOPLE VOTE)
~Charlotte Observer
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