In the US midterm elections, Ukrainian-Americans won the gubernatorial victories in two states..

Reports about it "Voice of America".

So, in the election of the governor of the state of Colorado won the 43-year-old Jarel Polis. It belongs to the third generation of immigrants who came to the United States from Poland and Ukraine at the beginning of the twentieth century..

"Being so close to the immigrant experience, I resolutely stand to protect the rights of immigrants and refugees, of course, given the experience of the Jews before World War II, not many countries wanted to accept Jewish refugees," he told reporters.

In addition, Polis is openly gay and became the first governor-representative of the LGBT community in US history..

In addition, in Illinois, the representative of the Pritzker family, who belongs to the 15 richest families in the world, won. Jay Robert Pritzker's great-grandfather, who became the new governor, Nicholas Pritzker was a Ukrainian Jew and migrated to the USA.

“I am descended from Ukrainian Jews and proud to work with the local community of Holocaust survivors,” says Jay Robert on his official page..