In three states, Kamala Harris is set to top the ballot above Black Democrats running for Senate. It will be a first in US history.
Vice President Kamala Harris, right, joins Angela Alsobrooks, the Democratic Senate candidate for Maryland, at a campaign event on Gun Violence Awareness Day at Kentland Community Center on June 7, 2024 in Landover, MarylandWhen Kamala Harris arrived in the Senate in early 2017, she was only the sixth Black person to win election to the chamber since Reconstruction and just the second Black woman to get there.
Both Maryland county exec Angela Alsobrooks and Delaware Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester are running to replace a retiring Democratic incumbent. Both races are in states that tend to send Democrats to Washington, although in this environment nothing is a sure thing. For one, Republican Larry Hogan, the well-regarded former Maryland Governor, remains a potentially popular crossover figure who keeps Democrats in D.C.
Democrats are running with almost zero margin of error. They hold 47 seats in the Senate and another four independents generally align with them, yielding a fragile one-seat majority. One of those lawmakers, Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia, isWashington at the end of this term, all but surrendering the seat to Republicans.
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