Lisa Blunt Rochester wins Delaware election becoming the state's first female senator
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.
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. “I’m doing this to make a difference.”
Hansen, a former Walmart and Procter & Gamble executive, promoted his business experience as an advantage over being a career politician. His platform entailed fixing “broken” schools, health care and prescription drug affordability, the environment, reducing gun violence and crime, and the economy. Katz is a physician and former state senator who was a Democrat but changed his party affiliation to independent. The candidates did not hold a debate.
Blunt Rochester said that despite her lead in the polls, she took nothing for granted.
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