But I'm going to add to what you said, which is not only would she be the sixth black woman ever elected to the United States Senate, by the way, Our state was the first to elect a first black woman to the United States [Senate], Carol Mosley Braun. And now we're going to become the second black woman to elect, I mean, a first state, rather, to elect a second black woman to the United States, the first state ever. (18:24–18:31)
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