Lauren Underwood’s Unlikely Congressional Bid is All About Health Care
Nov 03, 2018, 05:22 AM
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Lauren Underwood is not supposed to win in Illinois' 14th district. She's a Democrat running against a Republican incumbent who won two years ago by nearly 20 points; a former Obama administration official in a district that voted for Mitt Romney and Donald Trump; a young black woman pitching voters who are mostly middle-aged, overwhelmingly white, and have never sent a woman to the House of Representatives.