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Angelo Alsobrooks and Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester achieved historic firsts on Election Day with the pair becoming the first women and the first black women in their respective seats to win seats in the US Senate. This would mark the first time two black women have served simultaneously in the Senate chamber.
Angela Alsobrookscurrently the County Executive for Prince George's County in Maryland, faced former Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan in a race that most expected Alsobrooks to win in the heavily blue-leaning state. Hogan spent big in Maryland to unseat Sen. Ben Cardin, but Alsobrooks ran a sharp campaign and built on her strong record as a well-known elected official in one of the largest counties.
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, the congresswoman who represents the state's large Delaware district, has been in politics since the 1990s. She served as deputy secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services in 1993 and secretary of the Department of Labor in 1998 under outgoing Sen. Delaware Tom Carper during his term as governor of the state.
Alsobrooks and Blunt Rochester will bring the number of Black senators in the chamber to six. She is also only the fourth and fifth black women elected to the Senate.
The couple follows a great path first blazed by Sen. Carol Mosley Braun, who was the first black woman elected to the Senate in 1992. Vice President Kamala Harris was elected to the Senate in 2016. Sen. Laphonza Butler, who will leave the Senate seat at the end of her current term, she was appointed to the seat to serve out the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein's term, which ends next January.
Excitement over the news of Sen.-elect Angela Alsobrooks and Sen.-elect Lisa Blunt Rochester is spreading. We have reactions from X below.
Thanks, Maryland! pic.twitter.com/fUl9HGdmaU
— Angela Alsobrooks (@AlsobrooksForMD) November 6, 2024
From the bottom of my heart, Delaware, thank you 💙 pic.twitter.com/UI9GtzqYBJ
— Lisa Blunt Rochester (@LisaBRochester) November 6, 2024
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