A Massachusetts Democrat is the country s first openly lesbian candidate to be elected to the office of governor. In Maryland, voters elected the state s first Black governor. Vermont will finally send a woman to Congress, after being the only state never to have had female representation in the House.
The informal alliance rose in 2019 with core members who had been elected in the 2018 blue wave : Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rep. Ilhan Omar, Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Rep. Ayanna Pressley.