Delaware’s Leading Senate Candidate Is Leaning Into Her Ag Background From Congress

NOTUS got a first look at a campaign proposal that Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester hopes to be able to pursue from the Senate.

Lisa Blunt Rochester
Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester has served on the House’s Agriculture Committee, and she’s highlighting that experience on the campaign trail. Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA via AP

Senate candidate Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester will release a four-page agriculture proposal Tuesday afternoon, which is designed to address issues including discrimination against Black farmers and purchases of U.S. farmland by foreign entities.

Blunt Rochester is the odds-on favorite to win her Senate race in Delaware, where she’s highlighted her ag policy experience in the House of Representatives, and her proposal, first obtained by NOTUS, is geared toward rural development.

“Our focus really is not on these big corporations, but really focusing on our Delaware farmers, producers, our ranchers. That’s important to make sure, and that’s what this plan tries to really uplift,” Blunt Rochester said in an interview with NOTUS.