Pittsburgh Is Poised to Have Its First Black Mayor
Ed Gainey won the Democratic primary in a city that is roughly a quarter Black. The incumbent, Bill Peduto, is the first Pittsburgh mayor to lose a bid to stay in office since 1933.
Ed Gainey, a five-term Pennsylvania state representative, is poised to become the first Black mayor of Pittsburgh.Credit...Steve Mellon/Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, via Associated Press
May 19, 2021Updated 10:55 a.m. ET
PITTSBURGH — Ed Gainey, a five-term Pennsylvania state representative, is poised to become the first Black mayor of Pittsburgh, having won the Democratic primary for mayor on Tuesday night by defeating a two-term incumbent on a campaign of unequivocal progressivism.