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Sarah McBride worked at the White House during the Obama administration
Sarah McBride will be the first transgender senator from the United Statesafter winning a Delaware State Senate victory in the elections November 3.
In the election race, she beat Republican Steve Washington and will replace Democrat Harris McDowell, who is stepping down.
McBride, 30, worked as a press officer for the LGBT Human Rights Campaign group and was an intern at the White House during the Obama administration.
“I hope that tonight (Tuesday) will show an LGBT child that our democracy is big enough for them too,” tweeted McBride after the election results.
She is part of a group of candidates who are making history in elections for the country’s state and national legislatures.
Taylor Small, 26, was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives (equivalent to deputies). In New York, Ritchie Torres and Mondaire Jones will be the first openly LGBT blacks in the US Congress. And in Oklahoma, Mauree Turner became the first non-binary person to win a seat on the state legislature.
Meanwhile, Republican Madison Cawthorn, 25, won in North Carolina and will be the first Congressional representative born in the 1990s.
Another successful candidate to attract attention in the last few hours was Marjorie Taylor Greene, 46, from Georgia.
She was labeled by the United States media as “the first lawmaker to openly support the QAnon conspiracy theory”.
In short, QAnon is a broad and unfounded idea that says that current President Donald Trump is waging a secret war against the elite of “Satan-worshiping pedophiles” in government, business and the media.
Greene, however, distanced himself from the claims about QAnon in an interview with Fox News in August of this year.
In commenting on the results, she pointed out that she broke another record by becoming the first woman to represent northwest Georgia in the US Congress.
To close the list, astronaut Mark Kelly had a successful campaign and was elected to the Senate by the State of Arizona.
Interestingly, he is not the first to achieve the feat: in 1974, former senator (and former astronaut) John Glenn was elected by Ohio and remained in office until 1999.
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