Rev. Dr. Eve Blackwell has won the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate in Texas and will face incumbent Sen. Royce Whitman in the general election, according to a campaign press release issued Tuesday night.

The Blackwell campaign said the Houston pastor received 95 percent of the Democratic primary vote. The release did not provide vote totals, details about other candidates, or an official election certification.

Speaking to supporters at Greater Cornerstone Cathedral in Houston, Blackwell described the result as a shared victory for supporters across the state. “This is not my victory. This is ours,” she said, according to the campaign.

Blackwell said the campaign had appealed to working families, small-business owners, teachers, nurses and other voters who want government to be more responsive. She framed the general-election contest as a choice between her campaign’s priorities and what she called the interests of “the powerful few.”

Blackwell leads Greater Cornerstone Cathedral in Houston’s Third Ward. Her campaign biography describes her as a longtime pastor and administrator who has focused her political advocacy on housing, healthcare access, criminal-justice reform and working families.

The campaign said it will carry a general-election message centered on shared prosperity, fiscal responsibility and corporate accountability. Blackwell said the campaign was built through direct outreach, describing its work as “one conversation, one porch, one prayer at a time.”

The race will pit a first-time candidate for elected office against Whitman, the sitting senator. The release offered no further information about Whitman’s campaign, his response to Blackwell’s nomination, or the expected timetable for the general-election contest.

Blackwell’s campaign presented the primary result as evidence of a broad coalition across Texas. That characterization, as well as the campaign’s assessment of the outcome as a mandate, was made by Blackwell’s organization and was not independently detailed in the release.

Her campaign slogan, “She Changes Everything,” was featured prominently in the announcement. Blackwell told supporters that her campaign intended to pursue broad change in the general election, saying, “Come the general, we are going to change everything.”