WASHINGTON -- Democratic Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser has won a second term in office.
In her acceptance speech on Tuesday night, Bowser celebrated alongside Eleanor Holmes Norton, who secured a 15th term as Washington's non-voting delegate in Congress. Bowser said that D.C. was on its way to becoming the 51st state.
Additionally, she pledged to build 600,000 affordable housing units across the District.
Bowser had been favored in the overwhelmingly Democratic District of Columbia. She defeated three challengers.
Bowser has presided over a period of relative prosperity and demographic shifts thanks to rapid gentrification. But her tenure has also been marked by a series of controversies inside the public school system over fraudulent graduation rates. Still Bowser won the Democratic primary in June with no serious opposition.
