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Vice President Kamala Harris could become the nation’s first woman, Black woman and Asian American president.
Two other Black women — Prince George’s County, Md., Executive Angela Alsobrooks and Delaware Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester, both Democrats — are running for Senate. If elected, they would join just three other Black women who have served in the chamber: Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois, Harris and Laphonza Butler of California, who was appointed to fill the remainder of Sen. Dianne Feinstein’s term. Butler is not seeking a full term.
