Claim: Todd Gloria, the city's first openly gay mayor outvoted his opponents in the 2020 San Diego mayoral election, which was held on November third.
Evidence: The top two finishers, California State Assemblymember and former acting mayor Todd Gloria and San Diego City Council president pro tem Barbara Bry advanced to the general election. Gloria was then elected mayor in the November 3 election, making him the first Native American and Filipino-American mayor elected in a US city of over a million people, as well as the city's first mayor of color and the city's first openly gay mayor. Democratic Todd Gloria 147,654 Democratic Barbara Bry 81,541 Republican Scott Sherman 80,352 Democratic Tasha Williamson 25,629 Democratic Gita Appelbaum Singh 12,716