Delaware’s candidates for the 2018 midterm elections
By: Adriana Navarro
Tags: Elections, Midterms, Politics, Delaware, Congress

Delaware’s at-large congressional district is the only congressional district of the state. The current U.S. House representative is Democrat Lisa Blunt Rochester. The U.S. Senate seats of Delaware are held by Democrat Thomas Carper, who will be up for re-election in the 2018 midterms, and Democrat Chris Coons who will be up for re-election in 2022.

Predictions

According to FiveThirtyEight, Delaware’s U.S. Senate and U.S. House seats have more than 99 percent chance of going to the incumbent Democrat candidates, and are labeled as solid Democrat.

Sabato’s Crystal Ball also lists Delaware as “probably not competitive” and in the favor of the democratic candidates.

Publisher: Sabato’s Crystal Ball

Important Dates and Deadlines

The voter registration deadline for the 2018 Midterm General Election is Oct. 13.

The deadline for voters to return voted absentee ballots to the Department of Elections’ Office is Nov. 6.

Election day is Nov. 6, 2018.

Senate

Publisher: FiveThirtyEight

Tom Carper (D)

Democrat Tom Carter is one of the incumbent U.S. senators of Delaware and is running for re-election.

A Vietnam war veteran, Carter was first elected into public office in 1976 as Delaware’s state treasurer. He served in that position for six years before running for the U.S. House, which he was elected into in 1982 and served for five terms. From 1992 until 2000, he held the position of governor of Delaware. A year later, he entered the U.S. Senate, and will be in his fourth term if he is re-elected.

His campaign website’s issues page lists the following stances among others:

Provide education to all children

Protect the environment and simultaneously create new jobs

Cut back federal spending

Reform the national health care system

Robert Arlett (R)

Robert Arlett is running for the position of U.S. senator for the state of Delaware.

Arlett has been a County Councilman of Sussex County since 2015 and served as President Trump’s Delaware State Chairman in the 2016 presidential election. During 2013, Arlett helped found and organize “Operation Seas The Day,” which provides a free beach week for wounded service members and their families.

His campaign website’s issues page lists the following stances among others:

Lift business regulations

Immigration reform

Against gun regulations

Defend religious liberty

Repeal the Affordable Care Act

Demetri Theodoropoulos (Green)

Green Demetri Theodoropoulos is running for the position of U.S. senator for the state of Delaware.

Theodoropoulos does not have a campaign website.

Nadine Frost (L)

Libertarian Nadine Frost is running for the position of U.S. senator for the state of Delaware.

During 2016, Frost ran for Wilmington City Council’s 5th District seat. During an interview with DelawareRepublic, Frost stated she was a former law enforcement officer with the Immigration Naturalization Service under the Clinton Administration. She said that as a deportation officer, her job was to “hunt down the scum of the earth and remove them from our golden shores.”

In the interview, she stated the following stances among others:

Make immigration easier

Free market in health care

Reduce business regulations

Matthew Stout (I)

Independent Matthew Stout was written in for the position of U.S. senator for the state of Delaware.

Stout does not have a campaign website.

Barry Eveland (Write-in/I)

Independent Barry Eveland was written in for the position of U.S. senator for the state of Delaware.

Eveland has no campaign website.

U.S. House

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Lisa Blunt Rochester (D)

Democrat Lisa Blunt Rochester is the incumbent U.S. House representative for Delaware and is running for re-election.

Rochester became the first woman and person of color to represent Delaware in Congress in 2016 when she was elected into office. She started her career by working as a caseworker for then-Congressman Tom Carper and has served under two governors as the Secretary of Labor, Deputy Secretary of Health and Social Services and State Personnel Director. Rochester was also the CEO of the Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League, a non-partisan movement that encourages African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream. If re-elected, she will be going into her second term as a representative.

Her campaign website does not have an issues page, but her website lists her vote record. The topics she has usually voted for are:

Scott Walker (R)

Republican Scott Walker is running for the position of U.S. House representative of Delaware.

Previously a Democrat, Walker changed his party affiliation before entering the 2018 race for the U.S. House. He ran against Republican Lee Murphy in the 2018 Republican primaries and won with 53 percent of the vote. As a Democrat, he ran against Rochester in the 2016 midterm primaries.

In November of 2017, he went on the “Dan Gaffney Show” to say he would welcome sexual assault allegations made against him, and that they would even be beneficial to increase publicity for his campaign. When the radio host asked what he had done, he answered that he might have worn “the wrong cologne” or had been “too aggressive.” This year, Walker posted a video on Facebook criticizing the plus-size model of an advertisement he saw in a store window. He claimed that the model was “very obese,” and that “women should not get the idea that it’s okay to be unhealthy,” calling it “discrimination against women.”

The Delaware Republican Party’s chairman Mike Harrington has stated that Walker does not represent the party.

Walker has no campaign website.

Christopher Mockerman (I, write-in)

Independent Christopher Mockerman was written in for the position of for the position of U.S. House representative of Delaware.

His campaign website’s issues page lists the following stances among others:

Supports abortion rights

Andrew Webb (I)

Independent Andrew Webb was written in for the position of for the position of U.S. House representative of Delaware.

His campaign website’s issues page lists the following stances among others: