Maya Dillard Smith
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Maya Dillard Smith (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Georgia. She lost in the Democratic primary on June 9, 2020.
Dillard Smith completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Maya Dillard Smith earned her undergraduate degree from the University of California, Berkeley. She also attended the University of Texas, Austin, Harvard University, and the University of California, Hastings College of the Law for graduate studies.[1]
Elections
2020
See also: United States Senate election in Georgia, 2020 (Perdue vs. Ossoff runoff)
United States Senate election in Georgia, 2020 (June 9 Democratic primary)
United States Senate election in Georgia, 2020 (June 9 Republican primary)
General runoff election
General runoff election for U.S. Senate Georgia
Jon Ossoff defeated incumbent David Perdue in the general runoff election for U.S. Senate Georgia on January 5, 2021.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ |  | Jon Ossoff (D)  | 50.6 | 2,269,923 |
 | David Perdue (R) | 49.4 | 2,214,979 | |
| Total votes: 4,484,902 | |||
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General election
General election for U.S. Senate Georgia
Incumbent David Perdue and Jon Ossoff advanced to a runoff. They defeated Shane Hazel in the general election for U.S. Senate Georgia on November 3, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | David Perdue (R) | 49.7 | 2,462,617 |
| ✔ | | Jon Ossoff (D) | 47.9 | 2,374,519 |
 | Shane Hazel (L) | 2.3 | 115,039 | |
| Total votes: 4,952,175 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Darrell McGuire (Independent)
- Clifton Kilby (Independent)
- Elbert Bartell (Independent)
Democratic primary election
Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Georgia
The following candidates ran in the Democratic primary for U.S. Senate Georgia on June 9, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | Jon Ossoff | 52.8 | 626,819 |
 | Teresa Tomlinson | 15.8 | 187,416 | |
 | Sarah Riggs Amico | 11.8 | 139,574 | |
 | Maya Dillard Smith | 8.8 | 105,000 | |
 | James Knox | 4.2 | 49,452 | |
 | Marckeith DeJesus | 3.9 | 45,936 | |
| Tricia Carpenter McCracken | 2.7 | 32,463 | ||
| Total votes: 1,186,660 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- Akhenaten Amun (D)
- Harold Shouse (D)
- Elaine Whigham Williams (D)
- Ted Terry (D)
Republican primary election
Republican primary for U.S. Senate Georgia
Incumbent David Perdue advanced from the Republican primary for U.S. Senate Georgia on June 9, 2020.
Candidate | % | Votes | ||
| ✔ | | David Perdue | 100.0 | 992,555 |
| Total votes: 992,555 | |||
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Withdrawn or disqualified candidates
- James Jackson (R)
- Michael Jowers (R)
Campaign themes
2020
Ballotpedia survey responses
See also: Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection
Maya Dillard Smith completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Dillard Smith's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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Maya Dillard-Smith is a civil rights lawyer, policymaker and economist with 20-years of experience focused on social, political and economic opportunity. With a mastery of the constitution, the economy and legislative advocacy, Maya has been on the frontlines fighting for the needs and rights of Georgians in city halls, county commissions, state legislatures, the U.S. Congress and the courts.
She has successfully championed the expansion of Medicaid, reformed justice systems, prevented gun-violence, designed community policing, protected voting rights, conserved the environment and developed affordable housing. A skilled ambassador, Maya has advised members of Congress, the U.S. Census Monitoring Board, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the federal courts. She consulted for the National Bureau of Economic Research and managed $1 billion of public-private appropriations.
Without question, Maya is the most qualified and talented candidate. She is also Democrats only chance at beating David Perdue in 2020! Maya is a country breed, city raised, Harvard-trained, African-American working mom of three who knows firsthand the challenges of balancing a family and work to make ends meet....while serving. Maya is a doer who gets things done; she is the change Washington so desperately needs!
The Time is Now!
When is enough, enough?
- People over profits. Principles over politics.
FAIR ELECTIONS - Restore the Voting Rights Act in Congress to ensure Georgia's Secretary of State gets permission and follows the law before they purge voters, change voting locations, buy new voting machines, or redraw voting districts.
FAIR WAGES - Fight against workplace discrimination; for equal pay and closing the CEO wage gap, local jobs and contracting requirements, and increased minimum wages. Maya supports the PRO Act, protecting small business and "backpay" for historic free labor.
FAIR HEALTHCARE - Pass universal, single payer healthcare for all, protecting rural hospitals and reproductive health, ensuring healthcare as a right, reducing drug costs, increasing reimbursement rates and and holding big pharma accountable.
FAIR CLIMATE - Ensure land conservation, food and water security, environmental justice and EPA enforcement. She supports the Green New Deal, rejoining the Paris Accord and protecting farmers against bankruptcy.
FAIR HOUSING - Revise HUD rules to hold developers accountable and remove inherent displacement effects, reverse or adapt Opportunity Zones, introduce federal community benefit requirements to keep residential and commercial real estate affordable.
FAIR JUSTICE - Expand First Step Act for justice realignment, demilitarization of police and community policing, end cash bail, pass federal cannabis legalization, reverse non-violent incarceration, eliminate mandatory minimums and end above-the-law policing.
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See also
2020 Elections
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on April 11, 2020
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