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Delaware Sen.-elect. Lisa Blunt Rochester is shown speaking on the third night of the Democratic National Convention at the United Center in Chicago, Ill., on Aug. 21.

Across branches and levels of government, Tuesday's election results included firsts for gender, race and age of winning candidates. The big picture: Voters backed a White House ticket slated to include the oldest president and one of the youngest vice presidents, while securing wins for two Black, female senators and the first transgender person elected to Congress.Here are some of the milestones: Trump: Oldest and first felon president-electAt 78 years old, Trump became the oldest person elected to the White House.He became the first U.S. president to be a convicted felon in May after being found guilty of 34 felony counts in his New York criminal trial. Now, he's the first felon elected to the presidency. Vance: First millennial in the White HouseAt 40 years old, Vance is one of the youngest elected vice presidents and the only millennial. He will also be the first former Marine to be vice president, per the Washington Post. His wife, Usha Vance, will be the first Indian American and Hindu second lady.Rochester and Alsobrooks: First Black women to serve in Senate together Delaware Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester (D) and Prince George's County, Maryland, Executive Angela Alsobrooks (D) became the first Black women elected to represent their respective states on Tuesday. It'll be the first time two Black women serve in the Senate at the same time. McBride: First transgender person elected to CongressDelaware state Sen. Sarah McBride (D) on Tuesday won her race to become a U.S. representative for the state's only congressional district. She was already the highest-ranking transgender elected official in the U.S.Morrison: first pro-abortion rights OB-GYN in CongressKelly Morrison (D) will represent Minnesota's third congressional district and become the first pro-abortion rights obstetrician-gynecologist in Congress.Congress' two OB-GYNs, retiring Rep. Michael Burgess (R-Texas) and Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Kansas), both supported the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, per the Wall Street Journal.Fedorchak: North Dakota's first woman representativeJulie Fedorchak (R) will be the first woman to represent North Dakota in the House, leaving Mississippi behind as the only state that hasn't elected a woman to the congressional chamber.Other milestonesTexas state Rep. Julie Johnson (D) became the first openly LGBTQ person elected to Congress from the South, per the Washington Post.Rep. Andy Kim (D) will be the first Korean American in the Senate and its third-youngest member, per the New York Times. Bernie Moreno (R) will be the first Latino senator from Ohio, per CNN. Yassamin Ansari (D) became the first Iranian-American Democrat elected to Congress, per CNN. She will represent Arizona in the House. In state and local races, Danny Avula (D) became the first-ever immigrant and Asian mayor of Richmond, Virginia. He will be the city's first non-Black mayor in more than 20 years. Josh Stein (D), currently North Carolina's attorney general, will become the state's first Jewish governor. Go deeper: America chose Trump with eyes wide open

Vote counting in some races could go on for days.

Vice President Kamala Harris, whose mother was an Indian immigrant, would be the country's first South Asian American president.

After a dramatic primary, New Jersey voters turn to the Nov. 5 general election to resolve several races for federal offices up and down the state

They used their platform on the bench to denounce efforts to downplay the Jan. 6 violence and cast the rioters as political prisoners.

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Guest CommentarySam Daley-Harris Why does cynicism feel like a reasonable, inevitable, even smart posture these days? I think most of us have been there ... ready to write off politics as corrupt or hopeless, ready to identify those on the other side of an issue as heartless or evil, feeling like the savvy thing is to [...]The post Daley-Harris: Impactful advocacy requires moving past cynicism appeared first on Itemlive.

The Democratic National Committee credentialed about 200 content creators for its annual conference just as if they worked for NBC News or the Wall Street Journal. DNC officials say this strategy opens Harris campaign messaging to a potential audience of 169 million people on social media – and generated 30 million views on night one alone.Former Boston Globe Bostonian of the Year Sam Hyun, a social media strategist who advocates for the Asian American and Pacific Islander community, applauds the DNC for embracing the power of content creators, which he says is an essential ingredient for winning a general election.However, he’s also critical of the DNC, for what he describes as a lack of representation of Asian voices in the primetime speaker line-up. He thinks Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, Cincinnati Mayor Aftab Pureval or U.S. Senate Candidate Andy Kim would have been excellent choices.“I was hoping to see more representation from my community that was visible,” Hyun said in Chicago while attending the convention. “We’re the fastest growing racial demographic in the country. The AAPI vote was crucial to a Biden victory in 2020. We’re going to be crucial again in battleground states. You say that you appreciate and care about the AAPI community, but actions speak louder than words.”Hyun’s criticism was harsher for the Republican National Committee and its convention last month. He believes there was racism directed toward Usha Vance, the wife of vice presidential nominee JD Vance who is of South Asian heritage. He defended her sense of belonging on the RNC stage.Sam Hyun is the director of government affairs for The Asian American Heritage Foundation and was an invited participant at a content creator summit at the White House earlier this month.More from the Democratic National Convention2024 DNCAug 21Live updates: Walz accepts VP nomination in high-energy speech at DNC2024 DNCAug 21Geoff Duncan describes experience of Trump pressuring him post-2020 election2024 DNCAug 20Live updates: Barack and Michelle Obama fire up DNC after Harris surprises crowd with remarks from rally

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Twenty years after he graduated from the University of Chicago, Rep. Andy Kim returned to the Windy City Wednesday as part of a group of speakers at the Democratic National Convention who made the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol a focal point of the convention’s third day.In a speech that lasted just under three minutes, Kim (D-03) discussed his efforts to clear the Capitol Rotunda of debris after it was ransacked by supporters of then-President Donald Trump. The convention gave Kim a chance to introduce himself to a national audience as he seeks a U.S. Senate seat in November.Kim said when he was a child, his Korean immigrant parents brought him to the Capitol and taught him the building is “sacred ground, a symbol of democracy.” But on Jan. 6, he said, “we saw something unimaginable — a mob tearing down flags, assaulting police officers.”“The floor was covered in broken glass and garbage, strewn with the chaos unleashed by Donald Trump. And I thought to myself, how did it get this bad? So I did the only thing I could think of — I grabbed a trash bag and started cleaning up,” he said.Kim has evoked the Jan. 6 riot frequently on the campaign trail, as well as his clean-up effort that garnered him national attention.“What I learned on January 6 is that all of us are caretakers for our great republic. We can heal this country, but only if we try,” Kim said Wednesday. “Always remember, this chaos that we see, it doesn’t have to be this way.”Kim faces Republican hotelier Curtis Bashaw in November in a race to succeed Sen. Bob Menendez, a Democrat who resigned in disgrace from the Senate Tuesday following his conviction last month on federal corruption charges. Menendez had intended to seek reelection as an independent in November, but suspended that campaign last week.Kim ended his speech by calling on the crowd and the country to support the Democratic presidential ticket, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz.“There is a hunger right now in this country for a new generation of leadership to step up. Let’s choose Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. Let’s do this for our kids and our grandkids,” he said.GET THE MORNING HEADLINES DELIVERED TO YOUR INBOX SUBSCRIBENew Jersey Monitor is part of States Newsroom, a nonprofit news network supported by grants and a coalition of donors as a 501c(3) public charity. New Jersey Monitor maintains editorial independence. Contact Editor Terrence T. McDonald for questions: [email protected]. Follow New Jersey Monitor on Facebook and X.

New Jersey Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy will name his former chief of staff George Helmy to serve as interim senator when Bob Menendez resigns later this month after his conviction on federal bribery charges. A person familiar with the decision...

Democratic New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy will reportedly tap former chief of staff, George Helmy, to hold Sen. Bob Menendez's seat until January.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy is expected to name former chief of staff George Helmy as an interim senator to serve the remainder of Sen. Bob Menendez's term

Helmy, is expected to take office on Sept. 9 once the Senate returns from its recess

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, left, appears with his former chief of staff George Helmy in a photo distributed in September 2023, when he announced Helmy's departure from that position.

Vetting, interviews and the final decision are usually spread over months, not days.

Indicted Camden County Democratic political boss and insurance executive George E. Norcross III has kept a low public profile in the Atlantic City area, but that doesn't mean his influence here isn't deep and wide. While he has never run...

Donald Trump falsely suggested Vice President Kamala Harris had misled voters about her race as he appeared before the National Association of Black Journalists in Chicago. The Republican former president wrongly claimed Wednesday that Harris had in the past promoted...

Tuesday’s state primaries will set the stage for competitive contests that could determine control of the closely divided U.S. Senate, U.S. House and both chambers of the state legislature.

Arizona is already expected to play a critical role in the race for the White House as it did in 2020

Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J., announced he plans to resign effective Aug. 20, after months of Democratic hand-wringing over his scandalous federal trial and recent conviction.

WASHINGTON—Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has announced that he will resign from the Senate on Aug. 20 after he was recently convicted on all counts in a corruption trial. He submitted his resignation on July 23. Mr. Menendez, a former chairman of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee, was on July 16 found guilty on 16 [...]

The seat was already up for election on Nov. 5, and Democrats have nominated U.S. Rep. Andy Kim, who's in strong position in the Democratic-leaning state as he faces Republican Curtis Bashaw.

Menendez's legal team plans to appeal the verdict

Menendez, 70, was convicted of charges that he sold the power of his office to three New Jersey businessmen who sought a variety of favors.

New Jersey U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez is resigning from office Aug. 20 following his corruption conviction.

In July, Sen. Robert Menendez was convicted of 16 counts — including bribery, extortion, wire fraud, obstruction of justice and acting as a foreign agent — for his role in a yearslong bribery scheme.