Progressive climate organizer William Lawrence wins Michigan Democratic House primary

Progressive environmental organizer William Lawrence has won the Democratic primary for Michigan's seventh congressional district, according to The Guardian. Lawrence, who is thirty-six, co-founded the Sunrise Movement, a youth-led climate organization that brought calls for the Green New Deal into the mainstream in twenty eighteen. His campaign centered on support for a datacenter moratorium. He defeated Bridget Brink, a former ambassador to Ukraine and Slovakia, and Matt Maasdam, a retired Navy SEAL and military aide to Barack Obama. Lawrence will now face incumbent Republican Tom Barrett in the November general election.

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