US midterm elections: The candidates making history
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A record number of Black candidates ran up and down the ballot and across party lines, strides in LGBTQ representation were made and gender barriers were broken.
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US midterm elections: The candidates making history
The first Gen Z, first trans winner, and Trump's press secretary are among those setting records.
Women, Gen Z and LGBTQ candidates celebrate series of firsts in midterm victories
Maxwell Frost, 25, became the youngest congressman in history while Democrat Maura Healey of Massachusetts goes down in the history books as the first openly lesbian governor in US history
Midterms full of firsts for female, Black, LGBTQ candidates
Across the country, women, LGBTQ and Black candidates broke barriers Tuesday as part of a new generation of politicians elected to governor's offices and seats in Congress.
While attention turns to Warnock and Walker as they advance to a runoff in Georgia, other Black candidates from accross the country also made their marks on the Novemeber midterm elections. (Nov, 9)
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