Carper backs Blunt Rochester for Senate seat

U.S. Sen. Tom Carper is backing Congresswoman Lisa Blunt Rochester for the Senate seat he is vacating.

Blunt Rochester recently announced her 2024 campaign for one of Delaware’s two U.S. Senate seats following Carper’s decision not to run for re-election at the end of his term in 2024. 

“Lisa Blunt Rochester will make an excellent U.S. Senator for the people of Delaware. Almost three decades have passed since Lisa, then a University of Delaware graduate student, joined a congressional town hall meeting that I was hosting in Wilmington, Del. With an infant son in her lap and daughter on the way, she lit up the room and joined in a vibrant conversation that touched on many issues of the day. I was impressed,” Carper said in a statement. “Lisa is a person of deep faith and she is guided by that faith in all that she does. She is the embodiment of the Golden Rule – to treat others as we would want to be treated. She can be tough when she needs to be, but she is one of the most caring people I have ever known and worked with.”