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Balint reelected to Vermont’s US House seat
MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Becca Balint is headed back to Washington. The Democrat has won a third term in the U.S. House, beating Republican Gerald Malloy.
The AP called the race just before 8 p.m. with Balint leading by over 30 percentage points.
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Balint thanked supporters Tuesday evening after hearing that voters had returned her to a third term over Republican Gerald Malloy. She called Tuesday’s results a national “course correction.”
“Service to others. It is not weakness. Humility is not weakness. Kindness is not weakness. Understanding that everyone is entitled to human dignity -- that is not weakness; that is the source of our strength. That is the source of our strength, our humanity. Our humanity is what is going to get us through.”
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Balint, who maintained large leads in recent polling, has been a prominent figure in Vermont politics for over a decade, first serving in the Vermont state Senate. She won the seat in Congress vacated by now-U.S. Sen. Peter Welch in 2022.
Malloy is a West Point graduate who served in the military before working for defense contractors. He ran unsuccessfully for statewide office twice before, against Sens. Peter Welch and Bernie Sanders.
In a WCAX debate, the candidates both highlighted the affordability crisis as the central focus of their campaigns. Balint said she’s eased the pain for Vermonters by bringing federal dollars to the Green Mountain State.
“I come to this work as a long-time teacher. And every time I walk into that building, when I walk up the steps of the Capitol, when I walk into a Judiciary Committee hearing, or a Budget Committee hearing, I am thinking about all of those students that I taught in schools in Vermont,” Balint said Tuesday night. “Those are the people I’m thinking about when I’m walking into the committee, putting them at the center of the work that we’re doing. And I know that’s what binds us together.”
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