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State Sen. Cathy Cloutier announces re-election bid

Courtesy of Cathy Cloutier

A longtime Republican incumbent has announced her bid for re-election in a state Senate district that has become increasingly blue. 

 

Republican Cathy Cloutier has represented the 5th Senate district— which includes Arden and parts of the Brandywine Hundred Area —  for close to two decades.

This week she announced she plans to run for re-election— months after a Democratic challenger announced her own bid. 

Registered Democrats have outpaced registered Republican voters in the district for at least the past nine years. But the gap has widened over the past five years, with upwards of four thousand more Democratic voters currently registered in the district than Republicans. 

Cloutier started her political career when she won her husband’s seat in the state House in 1999 after he died in office. 

Next fall Cloutier will likely face Democratic challenger Kyle Evans Gay, who announced her candidacy in August. Gay is an attorney and activist, and has said she thinks the 5th Senate District is ready to flip Democratic.

 

Sophia Schmidt is a Delaware native. She comes to Delaware Public Media from NPR’s Weekend Edition in Washington, DC, where she produced arts, politics, science and culture interviews. She previously wrote about education and environment for The Berkshire Eagle in Pittsfield, MA. She graduated from Williams College, where she studied environmental policy and biology, and covered environmental events and local renewable energy for the college paper.
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