Clinton Wins Senate: First Former First Lady Elected
She won a Senate seat while still living in the White House. Hillary Clinton defeated Republican Rick Lazio by 12 points in New York — a state she'd never actually lived in before 1999. Bill was still president. She was technically still First Lady on election night. The campaign required moving to Chappaqua, buying a house, becoming a New Yorker overnight. But voters didn't care. She'd go on to run for president twice. The woman who once supported her husband's ambitions had quietly built her own.
November 7, 2000
26 years ago
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