Democrat Mary Sheffield, Detroit’s City Council president, won the city’s mayoral primary in a landslide Tuesday night.
She was the top vote-getter of nine candidates and will advance to the November general election against the second-place winner. Solomon Kinloch Jr. sat in second place, and Saunteel Jenkins in third as of 10:30 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday.
Sheffield, the favorite to win the primary, is running to replace three-term Mayor Mike Duggan, who is running for governor of Michigan.
“In Detroit, I believe that our best days are ahead of us,” Sheffield said at her campaign watch party. “The victory tonight is not mine. It is ours. It belongs to every little boy and girl in this city who was told to dream small. It belongs to
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