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This is Sophia, and I'm on my way down to my local city hall to vote in the Vermont primary.

My first ever election that I won't enough to vote in.

This podcast was recorded at 10.57 am Eastern time on Wednesday, August 15th.

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Congratulations on your first time voting. That's exciting. Yes, very cool. Hey, there. It's the NPR Politics podcast,

and with another set of primaries behind us, we're here with the results.

I'm Sarah McCammon. I'm covering the White House. I'm Kelsey Snell, I cover Congress.

And I'm Dominican Montenegro political editor.

And the big headlines from last night were all about history in the making.

In Vermont, Democrats nominated the first transgender person for governor.

In Connecticut, Democrats nominated their first black female candidate for Congress.

In Minnesota, Democrats nominated a former Somali refugee Ilhan Omar for Congress.

So let's talk about that history. We're going to start in Vermont.

Domenico, what's significant about this race?

So Christine Hallquist is a former energy executive in the state.

And she is the first transgender person to be nominated for a governor by any major party in history.

So certainly a historic night for Democrats in that way.

You mentioned some of the others who are some of the more historic candidates.

And first that are going to be happening.

There was a tweet that went around last night from Chris Johnson who works for the Washington Blade,

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