Thursday, March 28

Vermont could elect women to Congress for the first time


This story was published in partnership with the 19tha nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom reporting on gender, politics and policy.

Vermont is on the cusp of history this year as it prepares to almost certainly send a woman to Congress for the first time – the last state in the country to do so.

State Sen. Becca Balint and Lt. Gov. Molly Gray are the top Democratic contenders in Tuesday’s primary for a rare open US House seat, which is being vacated by Democratic Rep. Peter Welch. He is running for an open Senate seat after Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy announced his retirement last year.

Republicans Ericka Redic and Anya Tynio, both women, are also running. But whoever wins the Democratic primary is favored to win in the general election, likely putting an end to a distinction that Vermont has had to itself after Mississippi elected Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith to the US Senate in 2018.


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