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Lisa Blunt Rochester: “It took almost a decade to get to Laphonza Butler.”

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

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Published | Video Starts at 06:00

… the past, it took a quarter of a century for, 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. And we're all different. That's what I love about this group right here. (06:00–06:04)

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Asserts that it took nearly ten years to elect Laphonza Butler to the U.S. Senate after Kamala Harris.

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