Jasmine Beach-Ferrara is a gay Democrat running in North Carolina. Here’s how she says she can win.

Jasmine Beach-Ferrara
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On March 3rd, Democrat Jasmine Beach-Ferrara announced her congressional campaign in North Carolina’s 11th district.

Her candidacy presents a stark alternative to the district’s current deeply conservative and scandal-ridden representative, Madison Cawthorn, known as one of the politicians who fired up the crowd before the violent insurrection at the Capitol on January 6th.

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“Cawthorn has trafficked in really reckless and dangerous conspiracy theories,” Beach-Ferrara told LGBTQ Nation.

“He helped incite a violent insurrection. He has called for the overturning of election results, and he’s stoking the flames of a lot of division, and what I hear people [in my district] saying is that’s not who we are. It’s not the community we want to be creating, it’s not the future we want to be building together.”

Beach-Ferrara rejects the idea that a gay Democratic woman can’t be elected in the South. In fact, she said, she has already been elected to the Buncombe County Commission—twice.

“Our district gets written off a lot as a district that’s just too tough for a Democrat to win in,” she said, “and I don’t believe that. I don’t accept it.”

In addition to her role as commissioner, Beach-Ferrara is also a Christian minister, mother of three, and the founder and Executive Director of the Campaign for Southern Equality, which fights for LGBTQ rights across the South. She has a long history of…

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