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GOP Elects First Korean American Woman To Congress. But You Wouldn’t Know It. [UPDATED]

Paul Bois

UPDATE: Despite early returns, Kim did not in fact win in CA-39. Instead, Cisneros won a narrow victory over Kim. The original article appears in its entirety below.

While leftists are howling at the moon over the ascent of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the youngest woman elected to Congress, the media has almost virtually ignored another historic victory from Tuesday night’s midterm: Young Kim of the CA-39, the first Korean American elected to Congress, who is also a Republican.

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