Fri Oct 15, 2021 – 4:46 pm EDTFri Oct 15, 2021 – 4:49 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) — Many candidates for political office like to tell voters that they’re different, but when it comes to Kathy Barnette, there may actually be some truth to the statement.
A Republican, Barnette is running for an open U.S. Senate seat in Pennsylvania in a race that’s anticipated to be among the most competitive (and expensive) of the 2022 midterm elections. If she wins, she’ll hold several notable distinctions: Pennsylvania’s first ever female U.S. senator; only the 10th woman ever to have served in both the Military and in Congress; and the first black Republican female U.S. senator in American history.
But Barnette doesn’t allow any of these traits alone to define her. “The color of my skin is the least interesting thing about me,” she told me during a recent one-on-one interview. “I have lived a very full life.”
Born in rural Alabama and raised in a home without insulation or running water, young Kathy learned the harsh realities of poverty early on in life. “I grew up in dire poverty, and yet, by the grace of God, I was
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