"Philadelphia's Mayoral Race: Disability Issues, Dead Heat, and Endorsements"

Helen Gym, a city council member and daughter of Korean immigrants, is running for mayor of Philadelphia and is seen as a rising star in the national progressive movement. Gym's decades-long history of activism and legislative successes have made her an ideal candidate to lead Philadelphia and highlight the movement's recent successes at the local level. Victory for Gym in Tuesday's Democratic primary would make her the city's first woman and Asian American mayor. The left's focus on local races is a departure for a movement that is now more uniformly focused on remaking the Democratic Party from the bottom up.