Will 2018 be a turning point for black candidates – and Democrats?

Jonathan Rosero knows who’s got his vote in Maryland’s Democratic primary for governor. “It would be making history that we might have an African-American governor,” says Mr. Rosero, a local veterinarian, as he waited for Ben Jealous to make an appearance at a get-out-the-vote event in Langley Park last week. Mr. Jealous, a former NAACP president, and Prince George’s County executive Rushern Baker emerged in a June 10 poll as frontrunners in the state’s crowded Democratic primary field.

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