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Becca Balint wins Democratic nomination for Vermont House seat, CNN Project

(CNN)Becca Balint won Vermont's only House seat, the CNN Project Democratic primary, Let be voter turnout. She's on her way to becoming the first woman to represent a state in Congress.

Vermont is the only state without women in Congressional delegations. Balint, a former schoolteacher and current president pro tempore of the state Senate, defeated Lieutenant Molly Gray and her doctor, Louis Myers.
Balint enteredday onewith the backing of Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders and other leading progressive politicians and groups. She was boosted during the campaign when state Senator Kesha Lamb Hinsdale declined to endorse her and strengthen her progressive vote. Balint also benefited from large external spending from her LGBTQ Victory Fund (Balint is gay), which poured about $1 million into the election campaign, and from her arm campaigning for the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Gray drew support from more moderate state leaders. Among them was retired Senator Patrick Leahy. Although he did not go so far as to formally endorse her, she said she voted for Gray and donated her $5,000 to her cause through the PAC. Former Vermont governors Howard Dean and Madeleine Kunin also endorsed Gray.

However, Balint's success in claiming a progressive mantle in the contest, in which there were few noticeable policy differences between the leading candidates, contributed to his success. likely did. Among major voters who tend to lean further left than the average Vermont Democrat.

"Our high voter turnout was about 25%. So we're not talking about real representatives of the Democratic Party in Vermont," said Castleton University and Vermont. of Rich Her Clark said. Polls, the eve of the primary election. "Most interested (voters decide who wins) and they tend to be on the progressive side."

In the November general election, he ran to fill Leahy's seat in the Senate. Balint will be joining as the overwhelming front-runner, as Rep. Peter Welch, who is currently in office, vacates the seat. It was the first Democratic House primary without an incumbent since 2006, when Sanders gave up his seat to run for Senate in Vermont.