Mia Love, the first Black Republican woman elected to Congressnarutopg, who served from 2015 to 2019, when her opposition to the candidacy and presidency of Donald J. Trump earned his enmity, died on Sunday at her home in Saratoga Springs, Utah. She was 49.
Her family announced the death in a post on one of Ms. Love’s social media pages. She had been diagnosed in 2022 with a glioblastoma, an aggressive type of brain tumor.
A Brooklyn-born daughter of Haitian immigrants, Ms. Love defied every kind of political stereotype: She was a convert to the Mormon faith, a Black woman elected in a state that is 80 percent white, and a Republican who bucked her party’s most dominant leader, Mr. Trump.
First elected to the House in 2014, where she was the sole Republican member of the Congressional Black Caucus, Ms. Love said she would not vote for Mr. Trump for president in 2016 after the release of audiotape in which he boasted of groping women. In Congress, she supported Mr. Trump’s tax cuts package but repudiated his crackdown on immigration,66br including separating families at the border, which she called “absolutely terrible.”
pubgpgShe lost re-election in 2018 as part of a national backlash to Mr. Trump’s presidency, in which Democrats picked up 40 seats in the House and the majority.
The president mocked her in a news conference the day after Election Day, blaming her defeat, which was not yet official, on her failure to embrace him. “Mia Love gave me no love, and she lost,” Mr. Trump said. “Too bad. Sorry about that, Mia.”
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Worried, Mr. Lee checked the news and saw there had been a shooting in Brooklyn, on the subway line Mr. Delpeche took to his job at Woodhull Hospital. As videos of the scene poured in on social media, Mr. Lee recognized his friend of decades lying on the ground, wounded.
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