HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) Kathleen Kane on Tuesday spearheaded a Democratic sweep of Pennsylvania three statewide “row offices,” becoming the first Democrat and the first woman to be elected as state attorney general and snapping a chain of GOP succession that had gone unbroken since the post became an elective office in 1980.
“I’m thrilled,” Kane said in a telephone interview Tuesday night after defeating Republican candidate David Freed, the Cumberland County district attorney, with 56 percent of the vote in returns from 96 percent of the state’ precincts. “I felt the momentum everywhere I went. I’m humbled by the fact it’s such a large margin.”
