BLACK AND FEMALE CANDIDATES make up record shares of major party nominations for federal office. There are 125 Black candidates for federal office this year, 94 of them Democrats and 31 Republicans. The previous record total was 91, during the 2018 midterms, according to data compiled by David Bositis, senior researcher at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies. There are a record six Black nominees for Senate seats, five of whom are Democrats. The Senate has had only 10 Black senators in its history, and it could lose one of the three currently serving if Sen. Kamala Harris is elected vice president (she...

Source: Wall Street Journal October 23, 2020 09:32 UTC