Emma Mulvaney-Stanak shares her perspective on her historic win [Video]

Less than 48 hours after the historic win, Burlington’s Mayor-elect Emma Mulvaney-Stanak is reflecting on the victory.In a sit-down one-on-one interview with NBC5 at her Old North End home Thursday, Mulvaney-Stanak shared how she was always confident in her chances of winning, but she felt the momentum swing a few days prior, after her conversations with voters at her Honk and Wave event.”The amount of energy and enthusiasm people were expressing- I’ve been involved in a lot of political campaigns before. I was quite taken aback,” said Mulvaney-Stanak.This past Tuesday, she heard the news she’d been longing for: winning the Burlington mayoral race after receiving roughly 51% of the vote.It’s a win that checks off a lot of “firsts” — making her the first female as well as the first openly queer person to lead the Queen City. “My identities and how I’ve experienced this state and this world really …