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data-emotion-css="83cqas-RichTextContainer">.css-83cqas-RichTextContainer{color:#3F3F42;}.css-83cqas-RichTextContainer > *:not([hidden]):not(style) ~ *:not([hidden]):not(style){margin-top:1rem;}</style><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p><style data-emotion-css="14iz86j-BoldText">.css-14iz86j-BoldText{font-weight:bold;}</style><b class="css-14iz86j-BoldText e5tfeyi0">Sarah McBride is to become the first transgender state senator in the US after she won her race in Delaware.</b></p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>She beat Republican Steve Washington to take over the seat from Democrat Harris McDowell, who is standing down.</p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>Ms McBride, 30, has worked as the press secretary of LGBTQ advocacy group the Human Rights Campaign and was a trainee in President Obama's White House.</p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>She is one of a handful of candidates who has made history in a nail-biting night across the country.</p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>"I hope tonight shows an LGBTQ kid that our democracy is big enough for them, too," <style data-emotion-css="yidnqd-InlineLink">.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link{color:#3F3F42;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited{color:#696969;}.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:link,.css-yidnqd-InlineLink:visited{font-weight:bolder;border-bottom:1px solid 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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831/https://twitter.com/SarahEMcBride/status/1323805254081761282" class="css-yidnqd-InlineLink e1no5rhv0">Ms McBride tweeted</a> after her win.</p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>Ms McBride is not the only transgender candidate to make history during the election. Vermont's Taylor Small, 26, was elected to the House of Representatives, while Stephanie Byers made history in Kansas as the first trans person of colour to ever be elected to a state legislature.</p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>In Oklahoma, Mauree Turner became the first ever non-binary candidate to win a seat in a state legislature.</p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>And in New York, Mondaire Jones and Ritchie Torres won their seats and became the first black openly LGBTQ people ever elected to Congress. </p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>"Mondaire and Ritchie have shattered a rainbow ceiling and will bring unique perspectives based on lived experiences never before represented in the US Congress," <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/04/mondaire-jones-ritchie-torres-first-black-latino-members-congress/" class="css-yidnqd-InlineLink e1no5rhv0">Annise Parker, of the LGBTQ Victory Fund, told Pink News</a>.</p></div></div><style data-emotion-css="mysbf6-ComponentWrapper-CrossheadComponentWrapper">.css-mysbf6-ComponentWrapper-CrossheadComponentWrapper{margin:1.5rem 0;max-width:50rem;padding-top:1rem;max-width:36.25rem;}</style><div data-component="crosshead-block" class="css-mysbf6-ComponentWrapper-CrossheadComponentWrapper e1xue1i84"><style data-emotion-css="qozapo-StyledHeading">.css-qozapo-StyledHeading{font-family:ReithSerif,Helvetica,Arial,freesans,sans-serif;font-weight:500;font-size:1.5rem;line-height:1.75rem;color:#3F3F42;}@media (min-width:37.5rem){.css-qozapo-StyledHeading{font-size:2rem;line-height:2.25rem;}}.css-qozapo-StyledHeading:focus{outline-style:none;}.css-qozapo-StyledHeading:focus-visible{outline-style:auto;}</style><h2 class="css-qozapo-StyledHeading e1fj1fc10">Other historic firsts</h2></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>Meanwhile, Republican Madison Cawthorn won in North Carolina to become the first member of Congress born in the 1990s. </p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>Mr Cawthorn turned 25 - the qualifying age for Congress - in August. He faced controversy over sexual misconduct allegations during the campaign. </p></div></div><style data-emotion-css="18mjolk-ComponentWrapper">.css-18mjolk-ComponentWrapper{margin:1.5rem 0;max-width:50rem;}</style><div data-component="image-block" class="css-18mjolk-ComponentWrapper e1xue1i80"><figure class="css-2y05cd-StyledFigure e34k3c20"><div class="css-kwaqyc-StyledFigureContainer e34k3c22"><span class="css-1xtcmof-Placeholder e16icw910"><span><noscript><img alt="Madison Cawthorn, Republican nominee for North Carolina"s 11th Congressional District, speaks during the largely virtual 2020 Republican National Convention" srcset="https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/240/cpsprodpb/2294/production/_115225880_f9b5ef71-39bd-4c0b-8ae4-28df46848de2.jpg 240w, https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/2294/production/_115225880_f9b5ef71-39bd-4c0b-8ae4-28df46848de2.jpg 320w, https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/480/cpsprodpb/2294/production/_115225880_f9b5ef71-39bd-4c0b-8ae4-28df46848de2.jpg 480w, https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/2294/production/_115225880_f9b5ef71-39bd-4c0b-8ae4-28df46848de2.jpg 624w, https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/800/cpsprodpb/2294/production/_115225880_f9b5ef71-39bd-4c0b-8ae4-28df46848de2.jpg 800w, https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831im_/https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/976/cpsprodpb/2294/production/_115225880_f9b5ef71-39bd-4c0b-8ae4-28df46848de2.jpg 976w" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831im_/https://c.files.bbci.co.uk/2294/production/_115225880_f9b5ef71-39bd-4c0b-8ae4-28df46848de2.jpg" width="976" height="549" loading="lazy" class="css-evoj7m-Image ee0ct7c0"/></noscript></span></span><span class="css-1ecljvk-StyledFigureCopyright e34k3c23"><span class="css-oyqyoe-VisuallyHidden e1y6uwnp0">image copyright</span>RNC Handout via Reuters</span></div><figcaption class="css-1rnnz6t-StyledFigureCaption e34k3c21"><span class="css-oyqyoe-VisuallyHidden e1y6uwnp0">image caption</span>Mr Cawthorn, who addressed the Republican convention in August, tweeted: "Cry more, lib" after his win</figcaption></figure></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>And after she comfortably won her seat in Georgia, Marjorie Taylor Greene was labelled by US media as the first elected politician to have expressed support for the QAnon conspiracy theory.</p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/53498434" class="css-yidnqd-InlineLink e1no5rhv0">QAnon is a wide-ranging, unfounded conspiracy theory</a> that claims US President Donald Trump is waging a secret war against elite Satan-worshipping paedophiles in government, business and the media.</p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>Ms Greene has promoted the conspiracy in online videos, but she tried to distance herself from the tile of "QAnon candidate" in an interview with Fox News earlier this year.</p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>She spoke of finding "misinformation" in its theories and insisted she had chosen "another path".</p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>The 46-year-old, who has been described by Mr Trump as a "future Republican Star", ran unopposed after her Democrat opponent dropped out of the race.</p></div></div><div data-component="crosshead-block" class="css-mysbf6-ComponentWrapper-CrossheadComponentWrapper e1xue1i84"><h2 class="css-qozapo-StyledHeading e1fj1fc10">And a surprising second</h2></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>Astronaut Mark Kelly won his race to be elected to the Senate - but he is not the first former astronaut to do so.</p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>Former Ohio Senator John Glenn, one of the Nasa's first ever astronauts, took that distinction when he was elected in 1974.</p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>Mr Kelly has personally logged 54 days in Space and has a twin brother, Scott Kelly, who is also a retired Nasa astronaut. </p></div></div><div data-component="text-block" class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><div class="css-83cqas-RichTextContainer e5tfeyi2"><p>The senator-elect shared a photograph with his wife, former congresswoman Gabby Giffords, and thanked supporters for his win. </p></div></div><style data-emotion-css="z0waap-ComponentWrapper-SocialEmbedComponentWrapper">.css-z0waap-ComponentWrapper-SocialEmbedComponentWrapper{margin:1.5rem 0;}.css-z0waap-ComponentWrapper-SocialEmbedComponentWrapper div{margin:1.5rem 0;}.css-z0waap-ComponentWrapper-SocialEmbedComponentWrapper iframe{max-width:100%;}.css-z0waap-ComponentWrapper-SocialEmbedComponentWrapper div > blockquote{border:1px solid #BABABA;border-radius:4px;padding:1rem;max-width:36.25rem;margin:0.5rem 0;}.css-z0waap-ComponentWrapper-SocialEmbedComponentWrapper span{display:block;font-size:0.875rem;line-height:1.125rem;margin-bottom:0.5rem;}.css-z0waap-ComponentWrapper-SocialEmbedComponentWrapper .fb-post{max-width:100%;margin-bottom:0.5rem;}.css-z0waap-ComponentWrapper-SocialEmbedComponentWrapper .fb-post span{max-width:100%;}</style><div data-component="social-embed-block" class="css-z0waap-ComponentWrapper-SocialEmbedComponentWrapper e1xue1i81"><div><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">.<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831/https://twitter.com/GabbyGiffords?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GabbyGiffords</a> and I want to thank all of you for your hard work and support over the last 630 days. This mission wouldn’t have been possible without you. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831/https://twitter.com/hashtag/FullSpeedAhead?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#FullSpeedAhead</a> <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831/https://t.co/mGu5i88pI5">pic.twitter.com/mGu5i88pI5</a></p>— Captain Mark Kelly (@CaptMarkKelly) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831/https://twitter.com/CaptMarkKelly/status/1323823832730279936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 4, 2020</a></blockquote> </div><div class="css-uf6wea-RichTextComponentWrapper e1xue1i83"><span>The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites.</span><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20201217134831/https://twitter.com/CaptMarkKelly/status/1323823832730279936" class="css-yidnqd-InlineLink e1no5rhv0">View original tweet on Twitter</a></div></div><div data-component="image-block" class="css-18mjolk-ComponentWrapper e1xue1i80"><figure class="css-2y05cd-StyledFigure e34k3c20"><div 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