A Historic Number of Women Are Running For Congress. Again.

These are the nine to watch

Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
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6 min readMay 22, 2020

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Iowa State Rep. Ashley Hinson, a Republican running in Iowa’s 1st Congressional District. Photo: Thomas McKinless/Getty Images

The 2018 pink wave that saw a record number of women running for Congress and winning was no fluke. A record 490 women have filed as candidates for House seats in the 2020 election, according to Rutgers University’s Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) — a figure that tops the then-high of 476 that ran in…

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Andrea González-Ramírez
GEN
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Award-winning Puerto Rican journalist. Senior Writer at New York Magazine’s The Cut. Formerly GEN, Refinery29, and more. Read my work: https://www.thecut.com/