By Daily Mail Reporter and Associated  Press Reporter The scandal-hit mayor of Washington DC Vincent Gray has conceded defeat in Tuesday’s election to choose the Democratic candidate to enter the general election in November. The District of Columbia's Democratic mayoral primary was instead won by Muriel Bowser after an election season defined by a scandal involving Gray's campaign four years ago. Bowser tapped into an electorate that had grown tired of the allegations surrounding Gray, whose associates have been convicted of involvement in an illegal slush fund that aided his 2010 campaign. The scandal-hit mayor of Washington DC Vincent Gray has conceded defeat in Tuesday¿s election to choose the Democratic candidate to enter the general election in November
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Scandal-hit Washington DC mayor Vincent Gray has lost his battle to be the Democratic candidate to enter the general election in November
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Muriel Bowser won after seeking to make the campaign a referendum on Gray’s ethics
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Associates of Gray have been convicted of involvement in an illegal slush fund that aided his 2010 campaign
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Bowser will face independent D.C. Council-member David Catania in the general election in November
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