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Sarah McBride becomes 1st openly transgender member of Congress: A look at history being made in the 2024 election

The 2024 election is making history. Sarah McBride will be the first openly transgender member of Congress. U.S. Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester will be the first woman and first Black woman to represent Delaware in the Senate. With Democrat Angela Alsobrooks also winning her race in Maryland, this marks the first time that the country will have two Black women serving in the Senate together. We’re already making history — and the election’s not over yet.

Rochester, a 62-year-old Democrat, defeated Republican Eric Hansen in Delaware’s U.S. Senate race on Tuesday. She will fill the seat that opened up after Democrat Tom Carper said he would retire last year. Carper reportedly handpicked her as his successor. Rochester was also personally endorsed by Delaware native President Biden on Oct. 27.

Kim defeated his opponent, Republican businessman Curtis Bashaw, winning the seat vacated by Sen. Bob Menendez, who resigned in August following his conviction on bribery charges. Kim, 42, shared in a recent interview that this accomplishment “would validate his parents’ decision 50 years ago to immigrate to the United States,” the Associated Press reports. This isn’t the first time Kim has made history. After defeating a Republican incumbent in 2018, he became New Jersey’s first Asian American elected to Congress.

The 34-year-old Democrat defeated Republican John Whalen in Tuesday’s general election.

McBride became the first openly transgender state senator in American history when she was elected in 2020. “Whenever you are first, you often have to try to be the best version that you can,” she said in a recent Reuters interview. “But none of them matter if I don’t fulfill the responsibility of just being the best member of Congress that I can be for Delaware.”

Democrat Angela Alsobrooks won in Maryland, becoming the state’s first Black female senator. The win is significant for another reason: With Rochester becoming the first woman and first Black person to represent Delaware in the Senate, this marks the first time in U.S. history that the country will have two Black women serving in the Senate together.

According to Politico, only three Black women have ever served in the Senate’s history — Kamala Harris and Laphonza Butler, both for California, and Carol Moseley Braun for Illinois. However, they didn’t serve at the same time.

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