Voters nominate Zuckerman for another term as Vermont Lieutenant Governor

Incumbent David Zuckerman defeated a former aide to retired Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy to win the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor Tuesday.

Zuckerman won with just over 60% of the vote over Thomas Renner, the deputy mayor of Winooski

Zuckerman has held office for the past two years. His victory tonight kept alive a near-decade long streak of Democrats holding the office.

The last time a Republican won the office was back in 2014, when Phil Scott won a third term before becoming Vermont Governor in 2017.

Click here for the full results of the Vermont State Primary.

On the Republican side, John Rodgers defeated Gregory Thayer for the lieutenant governor nomination.

Rodgers, who is from the state’s conservative Northeast Kingdom and served as a Democrat in the state House and the state Senate for a combined 16 years. In 2018, he ran unsuccessfully for the Democratic nomination for governor as a write-in candidate.

Scott had endorsed Rodgers for the nomination over Thayer, an accountant from Rutland who chaired of the local Republican Party. He was a delegate at the Milwaukee convention in July and attended the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, demonstrating in favor of overturning Donald Trump’s defeat in the presidential election.

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