Seattle will be led by a democratic socialist after incumbent Bruce Harrell, a Democrat, conceded the city’s mayoral race on Nov. 13 following the counting of final ballots to self-described socialist Katie Wilson.
Wilson pulled ahead as later-arriving mail ballots were tallied under Washington’s all-mail election system, which allows ballots postmarked by Election Day, which was Nov. 4, to be counted.
In an interview on Nov. 14 with CNN’s Erin Burnett after the race was called, Wilson said that while she does not “shy away from the label” socialist, she “certainly didn’t run on it,” and said voters “care a lot less about labels than they do about results.”…