The Senate has the potential for history-making this fall, with not one, but two, Black women possibly elected to the chamber, a situation never seen in America since Congress was created more than 200 years ago.Delaware’s Lisa Blunt Rochester marks the milestone by saying that the reason she does this work is not about making history, “but to make a difference, an impact, on people’s lives.” Maryland’s Angela Alsobrooks said that people like her, and stories like hers, don’t usually make it to the U.S. Senate, “but they should.”Related video above: Recent poll finds new lead in Maryland’s U.S. Senate raceIf the two Democratic candidates prevail in their elections this November, their arrival would double the number of Black women from two to four who have ever been elected to the Senate, whose 100 members have historically been, and continue to be, mostly white men.Never in the Senate have two Black women served together at the same time.”I have to pause and think, How is that possible?” asked Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.”It’s not that white male attorneys’ perspective shouldn’t be at the table,” said Walsh, but “they shouldn’t be the only thing at the table.”To be sure, there are a many stairs to climb before Senate history would be made this election, where not only the White House, but control of Congress is being fiercely contested, and essentially a toss-up. The Senate races, in particular, are heated, grueling and costly.Blunt Rochester is almost assured to defeat the Republican candidate after Tuesday’s uncontested primary for the seat held by retiring Democratic Sen. Tom Carper in the small state that is home to President Joe Biden and where she is the at-large representative to the House. But the race in Maryland between Alsobrooks and Republican Larry Hogan, the popular former governor, is expected to be tight to the finish and it could determine which party takes majority control in the Senate.Alsobrooks upended conventional wisdom to beat back wealthy David Trone in the primary to replace retiring Democratic Sen. Ben Cardin by amassing deep grass roots and party support, showcased in a notable campaign ad with hundreds of backers. She is the former State’s Attorney for sprawling Prince George’s County and is now its top County Executive.Video below: How Alsobrooks quickly changed Senate race trajectoryOn their private text chain Blunt Rochester says they call themselves “sister senator to be,” as they run down-ballot from Vice President Kamala Harris a friend and colleague who became the second Black woman ever elected to the Senate when she won in 2016 in her own historic run for the White House. The first Black woman elected to the Senate, Democratic Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois in 1992, served a single term. Harris was the second. And a third Black woman, Sen. Laphonza Butler, was appointed to fill out the term of long-serving California Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who died in 2023. “People are anxious and excited at the same time,” said Glynda C. Carr, the president and CEO of Higher Heights for America, an organization that works to elect Black women to office.What’s striking about their campaigns is the way the two women embrace their own backgrounds but also, like Harris, don’t dwell on the historic firsts they would bring to the job, leaving it to the voter to see their Blackness and hear their voices as women.”The vast majority of us know that we have so much more in common than what separates us,” Harris said on the debate stage this week, brushing past Trump as he revived questions about her race.On the campaign trail, Blunt Rochester has shared the story of the Reconstruction Era documents showing her great, great, great-grandfather, who had been enslaved in Georgia, as now having the right to vote.As she reminisces on that history, “what we’ve come through as a country,” she said she also thinks of what she will pass on to her own new baby granddaughter.”There isn’t a cookie cutter way to run” for office, Blunt Rochester told AP. Blunt Rochester and Harris are close, both entering Congress the same year and often sitting together at Congressional Black Caucus events. “The most important thing is that we show up as our authentic selves,” she said, adding, “because it requires all of our different and diverse lived and work experiences.”Alsobrooks launched her campaign for the Senate in a video telling her family’s story of leaving South Carolina for Maryland after her great-grandfather was shot and killed by a sheriff’s deputy after a traffic stop. As a young prosecutor, she first met Harris, then attorney general in California, a friendship that formed more than a decade ago.But unlike 2016, when Hillary Clinton ran for president in a white suit symbolic of the suffragettes, the 2024 Senate candidates are positioning themselves more broadly in a way that may appeal to a wider electorate but also signals the cultural shift as the country becomes more diverse and Congress becomes more reflective of the electorate.”We learned from 2016, we’re not going to lead with identity in the same way that Hillary Clinton did,” said Aimee Allison, founder of She the People, an organization that supports women of color in American leadership.Allison said a new generation of candidates is showing you can be “holding multiple identities” at once. “It’s demonstrating you have a heart for people who you’re not like … but deserve to be served by government and deserve representation.”The challenges Black women face to get to this point in the campaign are steep, rooted in a two-party political system that has often been slow to support Black women candidates and quick to doubt their ability to win statewide office, despite the qualifications.Over the years, the parties have not always shared ample resources with Black women candidates who strategists said proved they could have had more success in several close races, creating a Catch-22 loop that reinforces biased attitudes against their electability.In fact, the Senate may have been poised to swear in another Black woman, Rep. Barbara Lee, who ran for the open seat from California after Feinstein’s death but fell short during a multi-candidate primary. Rep. Adam Schiff ran a strong campaign to become the Democratic front-runner with wide party support and is expected to handily win the seat that is now filled temporarily by Butler. With the Senate heading toward a 50-50 split, tens of millions of dollars are being spent in Maryland, where the popular Hogan was recruited by Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell to help the GOP win back the majority. Hogan and Alsobrooks appear to generally appreciate one another. Alsobrooks said Hogan was a good governor, but warns that in the Senate he would be a decisive GOP vote.Hogan’s campaign said he greatly respects Alsobrooks, and is proud of the work they did together during his administration. “Our campaign has been laser-focused on Maryland and Marylanders their local concerns and priorities, and the opportunity to elect an independent swing vote who will put the best interests of the state above party-line politics,” said Hogan campaign spokeswoman Blake Kernen.During the Democratic National Convention the two women candidates held an event at a historic Black history museum in Chicago with Moseley Braun delivering remarks and Butler introducing them.Blunt Rochester, noting her own powder blue power suit with its padded foundation, said she’s standing on the shoulders of those who came before her and has strong shoulders ready for those who come next.
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Donald Trump and Kamala Harris faced each other on the debate stage Tuesday night for the first and possibly the last time.The Democratic vice president opened the faceoff with a power move, marching across the stage to Trumps lectern to shake his hand.Kamala Harris, she said, introducing herself as the pair met for the first time ever. Lets have a good debate.Nice to see you. Have fun, the former Republican president responded.The exchange set the tone for the 90-minute debate to come: Harris controlled the conversation at times, baiting Trump with jabs at his economic policy, his refusal to concede his 2020 election loss and even his performance at his rallies.Trump, while measured early on, grew more annoyed as the night went on.Some takeaways on a historic night:From the opening handshake, Harris took the fight to Trump in a way that Biden could notThe vice president walked across the stage and introduced herself, Kamala Harris, before reaching out and grabbing Trump’s hand in the opening moments.In her first answer, Harris said Trumps trade tariffs would effectively create a sales tax on the middle class. She soon accused Trump of presiding over the worst attack on American democracy since the Civil War the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. And she charged the former president with telling women what they could do with their bodies.But Harris may have got under Trump’s skin the most when she went after his performance at his rallies, noting that many people often leave early.Trump was largely calm when he defended himself against each charge, but he showed annoyance with her comment about his rallies. He insisted his events were larger than hers and he seemed to grow angrier at times as the debate continued.Harris frequently shifted her message from Trump back to the American people.You will not hear him talk about your needs, your dreams and your needs and your desires, Harris said of Trumps rallies. And Ill tell you, I believe you deserve a president who actually puts you first.Video below: Fact-checking the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala HarrisTrump had a label for Harris: She is BidenTrump was often on defense, but he did drive the core message of his campaign: inflation and immigration are hammering Americans.Immigrants, Trump said, have destroyed the fabric of our country.He repeatedly tied Harris to Biden.She is Biden, he said.The worst inflation weve ever had, Trump added. A horrible economy because inflation has made it so bad. And she cant get away with that.Harris responded: Clearly, I am not Joe Biden and I am certainly not Donald Trump. And what I do offer is a new generation of leadership for our country.Trump on race and Harris on the attackABC moderator David Muir asked Trump point blank about his allegation last month that Harris had belatedly turned Black. Harris is Black and South Asian and a graduate of Howard University a historically Black school in Washington.Trump tried to play down the matter. I dont care what she is, you make a big deal out of something, I couldnt care less,” Trump said.Harris, however, had her opening and she rattled off a long list of Trumps racial controversies: his legal settlement for discrimination against prospective Black tenants at his New York apartment buildings in the 1970s; his ad calling for the execution of Black and Latino teenagers who were wrongly arrested in the Central Park jogger case in the 1980s; and his false claims that former President Barack Obama was not born in the United States.I think the American people want something better than that, want better than this, Harris said.Trump accused Harris of trying to divide people and dismissed her claims as dated and irrelevant.This is a person that has to stretch back 40, 50 years ago because theres nothing now, he said.Both candidates dig in on abortionHarris came out swinging in defense of abortion rights, perhaps the strongest issue for Democrats since Trumps nominees created a Supreme Court majority to overturn the constitutional right to an abortion. Her sharp arguments provided a vivid contrast to President Joe Biden’s rambling comments on the issue during his June debate with Trump.The government, and Donald Trump, certainly should not be telling a woman what to do with her body, Harris said. She painted a vivid picture of women facing medical complications, gut-wrenching decisions, and having to travel out of state for an abortion.Trump was just as fierce in defense, saying he returned the issue to the states, an outcome he said many Americans wanted. He struggled with accuracy, however, repeating the false claim that Democrats support abortion even after babies are born. He stuck to that even after he was corrected by moderator Lynsey Davis.I did a great service in doing that. It took courage to do it, Trump said of the overturning of Roe v. Wade and its constitutional protections for abortion. And the Supreme Court had great courage in doing it. And I give tremendous credit to those six justices.Polls have shown significant opposition to overturning Roe and voters have punished Republicans in recent elections for it.Trump refused to say whether he would veto a bill banning abortion nationwide, saying such legislation would never clear Congress and reach the president. He also broke with his running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, suggesting Vance spoke out of turn when he said Trump would veto a national abortion ban.I didnt discuss it with JD, Trump said.Who’s talking now?Trump took a Harris talking point and directed it right back at her.It happened when he objected after Harris interrupted him an interjection that he could hear but viewers could not because her microphone was muted according to the rules of the debate.Wait a minute, Im talking now, Trump said. He was putting his spin on a line she used famously against Mike Pence in the 2020 vice presidential debate.Sound familiar? Trump added.Four years ago, Harris rebuked Pence for interrupting, saying: Mr. Vice President, Im speaking.A restrained Trump except when he wasntDemocrats hoped and Republicans feared that Trump would lose his cool on stage. He generally did not, but when Harris annoyed him, he went to some dark places.Trump amplified false rumors that Haitian immigrants in Ohio are eating pets ABC’s Muir noted that local officials say that is not happening as he argued that the Biden-Harris administration was admitting dangerous immigrants.When Harris pressed him on the array of criminal and civil cases against him, Trump similarly fumed. He accused Harris and Biden of planting all the cases.I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things they said about me, Trump said, referencing the assassination attempt in July by a gunman whose motives are unknown.When pressed on whether he had any responsibility for the Capitol riot, Trump raised his voice, blaming both Democratic Rep. Nancy Pelosi of California, who was the House speaker at the time, and the Democratic mayor of Washington. He said the rioters have been treated so badly and once again denied he lost the 2020 election.Harris replied: Donald Trump was fired by 81 million people, lets be clear about that, and clearly hes having a very difficult time processing that.An early skirmish on the economyThe debate opened with an unexpectedly wonky exchange on the economy: Harris took on Trump for his plan to put in place sweeping tariffs and for the trade deficit he ran as president; Trump slammed Harris for inflation that he incorrectly said was the worst in the countrys history.The back-and-forth ended up with some of Trumps traditional bombast. He said Harris was a Marxist even though she had just cited positive reviews of her economic plans from Wall Street investment bank Goldman Sachs and the University of Pennsylvanias Wharton School of Business. But it was particularly notable for Harris effort to turn the tables on Trump.Trump noted that people look back on his presidencys economy fondly. I created one of the greatest economies in the history of our country, he said. Harris flatly told viewers: Donald Trump has no plan for you.Americans are slightly more likely to trust Trump over Harris when it comes to handling the economy, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs poll from August.
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