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Lisa Blunt Rochester: “It took a quarter of a century for...Carol Mosley Braun, the…”

Featuring: Lisa Blunt Rochester, Democratic | U.S. Senate from Delaware

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A conversation with Senate freshman women

Published | Video Starts at 05:50

And so I want to remember what we've come from. But at the same time, as Angela said, we are inspired and have hope because when we look at the past, It took a quarter of a century for...Carol Mosley Braun, the first black woman to the United States Senate, to get from Carol to Kamala Harris. It took almost a decade to get to Laphonza Butler. And then Angela and I came in immediately and we are poised to have three at the same time again. (05:50–06:01)

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Asserts that it took 25 years from Carol Mosley Braun's election to Kamala Harris's election to the U.S. Senate.

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