Campaign Speaking with C-SPAN, Biden stated he planned to campaign similarly to how he did in his previous elections, although he noted that he would have less time to campaign due to his role in overseeing
David Souter's nomination to the
Supreme Court due to his role on the
Senate Judiciary Committee. Biden had previously used his position on the committee to reject
Ronald Reagan's nomination of
Robert Bork to the Supreme Court. Brady criticized this, stating his role in the Bork hearings was evidence of Biden's poor character.
The News Journal wrote that they felt voters in Delaware knew little about Brady. Brady noted that she frequently sent them press releases, and cases she worked on often received news coverage. Despite Brady being one of few women running for Senate in 1990, Biden was endorsed by various prominent women in the
Government of Delaware. Additionally, due to a childcare bill he co-sponsored, Biden received the endorsements of several childcare activists. A televised debate between Biden, Brady, and Rosenbaum was held on October 23 by First State News and Heritage Cablevision. A radio debate between them was held on November 2 on
WILM. In the debate Biden and Brady argued over
line-item vetos. Brady felt that the president should be able to veto specific parts of bills, while Biden felt that it would give the president too much power, allowing them to "take complete control" of Congress. Brady stated that she hoped to win the election without accepting donations from
special interest groups. Ultimately, both Brady and Biden accepted money from interest groups. Brady's campaign raised around $200,000 by October 14 and around $245,000 by election day. The campaign spent most of its funds, having $4,117 left over after the election.
Results Polls closed at 8 p.m., and the
Associated Press called the race for Biden at 8:42 p.m. Around 10:30 p.m., Brady conceded; she partially blamed President
George H. W. Bush's role in the passing of the
Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act. Biden, like most incumbents in the
1990 United States Senate elections, was reelected to another term. He won in a landslide, receiving 62.68% of the vote. A slight improvement on his previous margin of victory. Five votes were cast for write-in candidates. Both Biden and Rosenbaum performed worse than their Democrat and Libertarian counterparts in the election for the House district. However, Brady outperformed Republican nominee Ralph O'Williams by three percent. With the exception of
Tom Carper in the House race, Biden outperformed all other Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian nominees for all of Delaware's
at-large elections, including Attorney General, State Treasurer, and
Auditor of Accounts. With the exception of O'Williams, Brady underperformed the Republican nominees for all other at-large elections. Rosenbaum was the worst-performing Libertarian nominee.
By subdivision Biden won all three counties for the third election in a row. Biden's best performance was in
New Castle County, where he won 62 percent of the vote to Brady's 36 percent. Brady's best performance was in
Kent County, where she won around 40 percent of the vote to Biden's 58 percent, his lowest share of the vote. Kent County was also Rosenbaum's best performance, where he won slightly under two percent. New Castle County had the highest number of votes cast, with 103 thousand, followed by
Sussex County with 86 thousand. Biden won all 41 representative districts; in the concurrent legislative election, 24 Republican candidates won seats. He won all of them by a
majority of the vote. Biden's best performance was in District 20, where he received 4,260 votes. Rosenbaum also saw his highest vote total in the district with 106 votes. District 20 was additionally the district where the highest number of votes were cast. Biden's worst performance came in District 34, where he received 1,593 votes to Brady's 1,377. Brady saw her best performance in District 11 with 2,999 votes to Biden's 3,111. == Aftermath ==