“We are delighted with the latest decline, which continues to trend in our direction. With a lead of nearly 2,000 votes, we now believe we are in an insurmountable position,” Wilson wrote in his report. Facebook post on Wednesday. “We are so grateful to all the volunteers who brought this grassroots campaign to victory. We look forward to the mayor's State of the City address tomorrow.”
Wilson, 43, who has said She's comfortable being called a Democrat, a socialist or both and has never run for office before but has focused her campaign on affordability, proposing better public transportation and more housing for Seattle's homeless population.
“I think the affordability crisis of the last few years has gotten to the point where people don't feel like their elected leaders are actually fighting for them, really fighting for affordable housing, for affordable child care, for things that affect them day in and day out,” Wilson said New Republic's Monica Potts in October. “And the inability of a certain line of Democratic Party policy to stop Trump from being elected… It's like, OK, now we see that the government can act quickly. It can do some really bad things very quickly. So why can't it do some good things?”
