CLEVELAND, OH – Today, Women's March National out of Washington, D.C., announced through the group's new super PAC, Women's March Win, its official endorsement of U.S. Congressional Candidate Nina Turner, a Cleveland Democrat, relative to Ohio's heated 11th congressional district race, sharing why the powerful women's rights group got involved in the special election as the Aug. 3 Democratic and Republican primaries for the race near.
"Nina has been on the front lines fighting for policies that would protect women, immigrants, people of color, workers, and the everyday Americans still struggling to get by – like Medicare for All, a $15 minimum wage, a Green New Deal, and true reproductive freedom – long before they were popular positions," said Women's March Executive Director Rachel O'Leary Carmona. "This moment calls for bold and progressive leadership in Washington, and that's why we knew this was the moment to make our first-ever political endorsement."
She continued.
"Nina Turner's uncompromising moral clarity and unparalleled fight are needed more than ever before," O'Leary Carmona said. "As progress stalls on the big changes that Democrats campaigned on, and while some refuse to treat their majorities in the Senate and House like the mandates they are, we need leadership like Nina's to deliver the change working families need."
The endorsement was shared in an article from the Hill that highlighted Turner's long standing advocacy on behalf of women and her repeated involvement in the Women's March.
A former Women's March National executive committee member, Turner, who spoke at the 2019 National Women's March in D.C. as the then president of Sen Bernie Sanders' activist group "Our Revolution" and at the 5th Annual Women's March Cleveland rally in the Ohio City neighborhood on Jan. 23, 2021, Turner expressed her gratitude for today's endorsement from Women's March National.
"When we lift women, we lift entire communities. From universal healthcare, equal pay, racial equity, climate justice and fair housing, history has shown us that centering women's voices, especially those of Black women, is critical to our collective liberation. I am proud to receive the endorsement of The Women's March and look forward to partnering with them when I am in Congress," said Turner.
A former Ohio senator and co-chair for Sanders campaign for president last year, Turner has raised some $4.6 million, more money than any of her 12 Democratic opponents in the crowded race to replace former congresswoman Marcia Fudge, who is now the secretary of HUD and a member of President Joe Biden's cabinet.
Ohio's largely Black 11th congressional district includes most of Cleveland and its eastern suburbs of Cuyahoga County and a majority Black pocket of Akron and staggering sections of Akron's Summit County sunurb.
The winner of the Democratic primary in Ohio's 11th congressional district will face the Republican primary winner for a Nov. 2 general election.
Both Cleveland and Cuyahoga County are Democratic strongholds run primarily by Democrats.
On Jan 21, 2017, days after former president Trump's inauguration, hundreds of thousands of women in Cleveland and across the country, led by the national women's march out of D.C., took to the streets for the first women's march to march against Trump's racist and anti-female rhetoric during the 2016 presidential campaign when Hillary Clinton was the Democratic nominee and to fight for women's rights in general, the largest single day protest in American history
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