If Jones and Torres win in November, they will be the first out gay Black congressmen in US history. "The future of the Democratic Party looks a lot more like (Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez) and Jamaal than Joe Biden. "You don't need to translate to Charles Booker when you're talking about the real needs of black working people in rural communities." That exposure benefited the Black candidates on the ballot this week, he said, and helped speed up an evolution among progressives who are desperate to build winning coalitions on a wider scale. Jones told CNN that he expected to win his primary in New York before Floyd's killing touched off protests across the country.

Source: CNN June 25, 2020 14:37 UTC