And it actually wasn't even until after I announced that I was running that I realized that Colorado had never had a Latina represented in Congress in the year 2022. Right. I was still going to be the first of something. You're going to have an outsize effect and having kids be able to look up to you and finally say, oh, there's somebody like me who is a doctor or is in elected office. (07:45–07:51)
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