Re: 2023-2024 Presidential, senate, house, state and city election thread
Posted: Mon May 29, 2023 2:50 pm
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Democratic Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, Delaware’s lone member of the House, will launch a bid this month for her state’s open Senate seat, according to her advisors.
Her glide path to the nomination in a deep-blue state makes it highly likely she could become the third Black woman to ever serve in the Senate. Blunt Rochester, who joined the House in 2017, has begun hiring campaign staff ahead of an expected announcement. The congresswoman will run for the seat, said her advisors, who were granted anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss her plans. But she has delayed a formal kickoff out of respect for her mentor Sen. Tom Carper (D-Del.), who revealed just last week he would retire after four terms in the Senate.
Carper endorsed Blunt Rochester last Monday during his announcement. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer also said he believed the congresswoman would make a good senator.
Blunt Rochester was the first woman and person of color to represent Delaware in Congress. In a brief interview last week, she recalled standing on the steps of the Capitol as an intern for Carper thinking she might want to pursue public office one day. But she described her rise as somewhat improbable.
“It literally took 30 years before I even ran for Congress. And I did that after the unexpected death of my husband,” Blunt Rochester said. “And I ran even though I had never run for anything, as a widow, over 50, Black, woman, and we made history.”
(PolitiFact) When Ron DeSantis ran for governor in 2018, he ran on a sparse policy platform. He didn’t say much about his approach to illegal immigration. His website listed only two policy goals on immigration: enact E-Verify to ensure a legal workforce and ban "sanctuary cities."
DeSantis campaigned praising then-President Donald Trump’s immigration policies — in a TV ad he cajoled his toddler daughter to "build the wall" as she stacked blocks.
DeSantis now enters the Republican presidential primary as a candidate who goes beyond Trump-like rhetoric and acts against illegal immigration.
When DeSantis signed S.B. 1718 into law May 10, he said it would give Florida "the most ambitious anti-illegal immigration laws in the country." The law includes punishments for employers who hire immigrants in the country illegally and requires hospitals to report patients’ immigration data.
"The Biden Border Crisis has wreaked havoc across the United States and has put Americans in danger," DeSantis said. "In Florida, we will not stand idly by while the federal government abandons its lawful duties to protect our country."