US Midterm Election 2018 “Midterm elections set stage for series of historic firsts “

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• The word “first” is probably going to come up a lot on Tuesday. Here’s a list of some of the most prominent firsts that could happen this fall:

  African-American governors

  

• If she wins, Democrat Stacey Abrams will be Georgia’s first African-American governor and first female governor and the nation’s first black female governor. She’s already the first African-American woman to hold a major party’s gubernatorial nomination.
• If Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum wins the Florida governor’s race, he will be the state’s first black governor.
• Ben Jealous is mounting a bid to unseat Maryland GOP Gov. Larry Hogan. If Jealous wins, he would become that state’s first African-American governor.

LGBT governors

• Democratic Rep. Jared Polis would become the nation’s first openly gay man to be elected as governor if he wins the Colorado gubernatorial race.
• Vermont Democrat Christine Hallquist has already made history as the first major-party transgender nominee for governor. If she wins, she would be the nation’s first transgender governor.

Senate

• With Democratic Rep. Kyrsten Sinema facing off against GOP Rep. Martha McSally, Arizona is guaranteed to elect its first female senator.
• Tennessee, meanwhile, could name its first female senator if GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburndefeats former Democratic Gov. Phil Bredesen.

House

• Kansas Democrat Sharice Davids and New Mexico’s Deb Haaland would be the first Native American women elected to Congress.
• Michigan Democrat Rashida Tlaib and Minnesota Democrat Ilhan Omar would be the nation’s first Muslim women in Congress. Omar also would become the first Somali-American member of Congress.
• Texas Democrat Gina Ortiz Jones would be the first Filipina-American in Congress, and California Republican Young Kim would be the chamber’s first female Korean-American.
• Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, is expected to be the youngest woman ever to be a member of Congress, having just turned 29.

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