Democrat Jennifer McClellan coasted to victory in Virginia’s special election Tuesday, becoming the state’s first Black woman in Congress. McClellan was declared the projected winner over Republican Leon Benjamin, according to the Associated Press:
President Joe Biden urged a divided Congress during his second State of the Union address to"finish the job" of rebuilding the economy and uniting the nation with the aim of reassuring a country beset by pessimism and fraught political divisions. Democrat Jennifer McClellan coasted to victory in Virginia’s special election Tuesday, becoming the state’s first Black woman in Congress.
McClellan, a state senator and corporate lawyer, was declared the projected winner over Republican Leon Benjamin, a pastor, within 30 minutes of the polls closing,She will succeed Democrat Rep. A. Donald Eachin, who died last November, and represent a district anchored by Richmond that stretches south to the North Carolina border.
Once McClellan is sworn in, there will be a record 28 Black women in Congress. Her victory does not change the GOP margin in the House as Republicans still will be able to lose four GOP votes on bills and pass legislation. President Joe Biden won Virginia's 4th Congressional District by roughly 35 percentage points in 2020.
That made McClellan, a corporate attorney for Verizon, the favorite against Benjamin, a pastor who lost to McEachin last year in a district anchored by Richmond that stretches south to the North Carolina border.Overall, 22 states have ever elected at least one Black woman to Congress, according to theIf McClellan prevails, the 50-year-old state legislator would be the first Black woman Virginia voters have ever sent to Congress.
"Just one day left until Virginia elects the first Black woman to Congress," McClellan boasted Monday on Twitter. "Who’s ready?"
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