After making history in 2017 as the first woman and first Black American elected to Congress from Delaware, Rep. Lisa Blunt Rochester has her sights set on a historic run for the U.S. Senate.

Blunt Rochester announced her senatorial bid Wednesday (June 21) to fill a vacancy from retiring fellow Democrat Sen. Tom Carper.

“It’s been the greatest honor of my life to represent Delaware, to protect our seniors, our environment, our small businesses and women’s reproductive rights,” Blunt Rochester says in her announcement video. “But we’ve got so much more to do.”

After her announcement, Blunt Rochester received a major endorsement from Carper, station WMDT reports.

“Lisa Blunt Rochester will make an excellent U.S. Senator for the people of Delaware!” the retiring senator said, noting that he first met Blunt Rochester, 61, at a congressional town hall meeting he hosted three decades ago when she was a University of Delaware graduate student.

“Serving the people of Delaware alongside Lisa has been one of the great joys of my life. She is just the kind of leader that we’ll need in the U.S. Senate in the days ahead, and she will make us proud. Indeed, she already has!” Carper added.

If elected, Blunt Rochester would be the first Black woman to serve in the Senate since Vice President Kamala Harris stepped down from the upper chamber to become President Joe Bidden’s running mate in 2020.