Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester will become the first Black woman to represent Delaware in the Senate after she defeated Republican Eric Hansen and independent candidate Mike Katz, NBC News projects.
Blunt Rochester, 62, told NBC News before Election Day that she had her sights set on creating jobs, protecting reproductive rights, health care and centering the needs of seniors and families. Blunt Rochester, who is in her fourth term in the House, is a history-making politician, already the first woman and the first Black person to represent the state in Congress. Yet she stressed that her candidacy was not only about breaking barriers. “I’m not doing this to make history,” she told NBC News.
Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University in New Jersey, said the race in Delaware was closely watched because of the scant numbers of Black women in the Senate. Aside from Butler, only Californian Kamala Harris, who served from 2017 to 2020, and Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, from 1993 to 1999, had made it to the Senate.
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