Record number of women elected in U.S. midterms

Record ID: 1363266

  • Title: Record number of women elected in U.S. midterms
  • Date: 7th November 2018
  • Summary: WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, UNITED STATES (NOVEMBER 6, 2018) (REUTERS) ***WARNING CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** DEMOCRAT JAHANA HAYES, CONNECTICUT 5TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WINNER, AT PODIUM (SOUNDBITE) (English) DEMOCRAT JAHANA HAYES, CONNECTICUT 5TH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT WINNER, SAYING: "And I told you your vote is your voice. Your vote is your voice. And you used your vote and you used your voice to vote for me on not one line but two lines -- on the Democratic line and the Working Families line -- and you said we are not having it, that we need somebody to go that is us, who understands us, who understands what we're going through, who is close to the pain that we're experiencing."
  • Embargoed: 21st November 2018 07:43
  • Keywords: women election midterms Congress House of Representatives Senate governor
  • Location: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, DULLES, VIRGINIA, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, TOPEKA, KANSAS, DES MOINES, IOWA, BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON, WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA AND DETROIT, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES
  • City: NEW YORK, NEW YORK, DULLES, VIRGINIA, NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE, TOPEKA, KANSAS, DES MOINES, IOWA, BELLEVUE, WASHINGTON, WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, RICHMOND, VIRGINIA, SIOUX FALLS, SOUTH DAKOTA, MINNEAPOLIS, MINNESOTA AND DETROIT, MICHIGAN, UNITED STATES
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA00595I9O3R
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Women won big in the U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday (November 6), with U.S. media predicting more than 100 women winning election or re-election in races across the country.
    Voters in Minnesota and Michigan elected the first two Muslim women to serve in the U.S. Congress, a former refugee who fled Somalia's civil war and a Detroit-born Palestinian-American. The victories by the two Democrats - Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib - came on an election night when members of multiple minority groups had a chance to score electoral firsts.
    Democrats Sharice Davids, a lesbian mixed martial arts fighter, and Deb Haaland, became the first Native American women elected to Congress.
    Democrats rode a wave of dissatisfaction with President Donald Trump to win control of the U.S. House of Representatives, giving them the opportunity to block Trump's agenda and open his administration to intense scrutiny. Republicans retained control of the Senate.
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