Melat Kiros, a 29-year-old immigrant woman from Ethiopia who ran for Colorado Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette’s seat as a democratic socialist, has become the first Gen Z woman to be elected to Congress.
On the night of Nov. 3, the Associated Press called the House race for Colorado’s 1st District’s in the democratic socialist’s favor.
According to results reported by The Colorado Sun, Kiros won 78 percent of the vote in the comfortably Democratic district, while her opponent, Republican nominee Christy Peterson, won just 14 percent of the vote.