Meet the candidates-Stacey Abrams, Laura Moser, Christine Lui Chen, Jennifer Carroll Foy, and Crystal Murillo-who are trying reshape American politics, one election at a time.
Stacey Abrams is a woman of many talents: she's a Yale-educated tax attorney, a minority leader in the Georgia statehouse, and a prolific romance novelist. (Seriously.) But can she become the first African-American woman to ever be elected a state governor?
Laura Moser had never run for elected office in her life-until she decided to throw her hat in the ring for Texas's Seventh Congressional District. It's an exhilarating, and exhausting, new job.
When Jennifer Carroll Foy-a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and a public defender-decided to run for a seat in the Virginia statehouse, she was months behind her opponent's fundraising goals. And no one knew she was pregnant with twins.
Christine Lui Chen is a neuroscientist and health-care expert, which is a big part of the reason why she's running for a seat in the New Jersey statehouse.
Twenty-three-year-old Mexican-American Crystal Murillo is running for a seat on town council in her hometown, Aurora, Colorado. Her opponent? The incumbent, a 79-year-old white Republican woman.