First GOP Pickup Also First Woman Senator for West Virginia

Bridget Johnson | 5:03 PM on November 04, 2014

Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) was the first blue-state Senate pickup for the Republican Party tonight.

She also becomes the first woman to represent West Virginia in the upper chamber.

Capito held a steady lead over her Democratic opponent, Secretary of State Natalie Tennant, to replace retiring Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.).

Capito was leading 60 percent to 38 percent for Tennant with about one percent of precincts reporting.

Tennant brought in liberal Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) to campaign on her behalf, a curious choice for a candidate campaigning as a centrist in a coal state.

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Bridget Johnson is a veteran journalist whose news articles and analyses have run in dozens of news outlets across the globe. Bridget first came to Washington to be online editor at The Hill, where she wrote The World from The Hill column on foreign policy. Previously she was an opinion writer and editorial board member at the Rocky Mountain News and nation/world news columnist at the Los Angeles Daily News.

Bridget is a Senior Fellow specializing in terrorism analysis at the Haym Salomon Center. She is a Senior Risk Analyst for Gate 15, a homeland security risk management firm in the Beltway. She is an NPR contributor and has contributed to USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, National Review Online, Politico, New York Daily News, The Jerusalem Post, The Hill, New York Observer, Washington Times, RealClearWorld and more, and has myriad television and radio credits including Al-Jazeera and SiriusXM. Bridget is Washington Editor for PJ Media.

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First GOP Pickup Also First Woman Senator for West Virginia

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