Overview
- The former D.C. Council member announced his campaign in a WTOP sit-down at his family home, framing the race as a choice about the city’s direction.
- He vows to build an economy that lifts residents across all eight wards, describing plans for “economic guardrails” and a “touch of populism.”
- McDuffie says he will defend Home Rule and push back on federal actions he argues undermine D.C. residents’ rights.
- He points to a career that includes work as a union mail carrier, graduation from Howard University, service as a lawyer and prosecutor, and 13 years on the Council.
- The Washington Examiner reports he rejoined the Democratic Party to run in the June 16 primary, entering a field where Janeese Lewis George has shown early fundraising strength.