Bee Nguyen wins Democratic runoff primary for secretary of state in Georgia
State Rep. Bee Nguyen is the Democratic nominee for secretary of state in Georgia after winning a runoff primary, NBC News projects.
State Rep. Bee Nguyen is the Democratic nominee for secretary of state in Georgia after winning a runoff primary, NBC News projects.
Nguyen easily beat out former state Rep. Dee Dawkins-Haigler, the other top vote-getter to emerge from the primary last month, on Tuesday.
Nguyen, the first Vietnamese American to serve in the Georgia General Assembly, will face GOP incumbent Brad Raffensperger in November. Raffensperger won a tough primary election last month after being targeted by former President Donald Trump for refusing to help the then-president subvert the results of the 2020 election.
Since her election to the state House in 2017, Nguyen, 40, has been a vocal voting rights advocate, especially for racial minorities and immigrants. She has been a vocal defender of the 2020 election and a critic of Republican-led voting restrictions, and had the backing of Democratic gubernatorial nominee Stacey Abrams, Democratic Rep. Hank Johnson and Atlanta Mayor Andre Dinkens.
Should Nguyen win the general election on Nov. 8, she would be the first Asian American elected to a statewide political office in Georgia.
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