How Ritchie Torres, Congress’s first gay Afro-Latino, won. #RitchieTorres learned he had been elected to Congress while watching the election returns at a friend’s house with a few core members of his campaign. The moment, he said, proved to be intensely gratifying. “I was raised by a single mother who raised children on minimum wage,” ritchietorresny15, a member of the New York City Council, said. After winning a crowded primary this summer, Torres sailed to a resounding victory Tuesday over his Republican opponent in New York’s 15th Congressional District, a Democratic stronghold centered in the Bronx. Torres, 32, will become one of the first Black, openly gay men to serve in the House, along with Mondaire Jones, the winner Tuesday in New York’s 17th District, to the north of Torres’ district. Click the link in our bio to learn more. ⬆️ 📸 Adam Hunger / apnews