The democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated the long-serving US representative Diana DeGette in Colorado’s primary elections held on Tuesday, the latest in a string of high-profile victories for the party’s insurgent left.
The Associated Press reported that Kiros had defeated DeGette for the Democratic nomination in the deep-blue first congressional district centered on Denver. Kiros’s triumph came a week after New York voters unseated two Democratic congressional incumbents and replaced a third who was retiring with candidates who had campaigned on standing up to Israel amid accusations that it was carrying out a genocide in Gaza.
15 term incumbency?!? Correct me if I’m wrong, but if each term is 4 years long, that makes 60 years, correct?
Why would anybody be in office that long?
2 year terms. She’s been in office for 29 years, which just so happens to be the same amount of time equal to Melat Kiros’ age of 29 years.
That would be quite the feat since she’s only 68! But in reality the term length for a member of the House of Representatives is two years.
Each term is 2 years, so 30
Are you sure? We vote for congress every two years because they have staggered terms, but I’m fairly certain each term is four years.
Otherwise every seat would be up for election every two years…
In the US, house of representatives is every two years, all seats up, senate is a 6 year term, staggered.
I see… thank you