US Midterms 2026
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Becca Balint, a Democrat who has represented Vermont's at-large congressional district since 2023, is seeking a third term in 2026 against Republican Gerald Malloy, a retired military officer.
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Topic: A coalition of prominent House Democrats led by Sen. Ed Markey and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, including Rep.
Becca Balint (VT-At Large) appeared alongside other lawmakers to support Abdul El-Sayed at a town hall in Ann Arbor, endorsing him as the candidate Michiganders can trust with their earned benefits.
Becca Balint (D) is the incumbent in Vermont’s U.S. House race and will debate Republican challenger Gerald Malloy.
Iran and foreign policy: Balint argued the U.S. could have achieved Iran’s nuclear rollback diplomatically under the previous agreement, criticizing the current administration for tearing it up.
Becca Balint (VT-AL) features in Vermont congressional debate coverage on WCAX. Due to the debate, WCAX’s 6 p.m. news is shortened and the CBS Evening News will air at 6:30 p.m.
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Becca Balint, whose full name is Rebecca A. Balint, was born at the United States Army hospital in Heidelberg, West Germany, on May 4, 1968, the daughter of Peter and Sandra (Couchman) Balint, and was raised in Peekskill, New York.
Her Hungarian-Jewish father immigrated to the U.S. in 1957, and her grandfather was murdered on a death march from the Mauthausen concentration camp during the Holocaust.
After graduating from Walter Panas High School in 1986, she attended Barnard College and transferred to Smith College, graduating magna cum laude in 1990.
She later earned a Master of Education from Harvard University in 1995 and a Master of Arts in history from the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2000.
Balint moved to Vermont in 1994, where she taught middle school history and social studies, worked as a rock-climbing instructor, taught at the Community College of Vermont in Brattleboro and wrote a column for the Brattleboro Reformer. She married Elizabeth Wohl in 2009, and they have two children.
After serving as a town meeting representative and on Brattleboro's Development Review Board, Balint won a seat in the Vermont Senate from the Windham district in 2014, becoming the first out lesbian to serve in that chamber. She was re-elected in 2016, 2018 and 2020, served as majority leader from 2017 to 2021, and was president pro tempore from 2021 to 2023, the first woman and openly LGBT person in that role.
When Peter Welch ran for the U.S. Senate in 2022, Balint sought his House seat, won the Democratic nomination and defeated Republican Liam Madden. She became the first woman and openly LGBTQ person to represent Vermont in Congress, and she was re-elected in 2024 with 62.29% of the vote. Balint serves on the Committee on the Budget and the Committee on the Judiciary, and she is a co-chair of the Congressional Equality Caucus.
In the 2026 election for Vermont's at-large seat in the U.S. House, Becca Balint is the Democratic incumbent seeking a third term. At the August 11, 2026, primary she won the Democratic nomination with 98.4% of the vote against write-in opposition.
In the November 3, 2026, general election she faces Republican Gerald Malloy, a retired military officer and the party's U.S. Senate nominee in 2022 and 2024, who defeated perennial candidate Mark Coester with 76.3%.
Several independent candidates and a Unity Party write-in candidate are also running.
