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Deb Haaland, the former New Mexico state Democratic party chair who is seeking to make history as the first Native American woman elected to Congress, had just one question before running: could she win? “So I decided to run.” Haaland is a citizen of the Pueblo of Laguna tribe and one of a record number of Native American women running for office this year. It remains possible Haaland won’t be the only Native American female elected to Congress this year. Sharice Davids, a member of the Ho-Chunk nation, is running in a competitive Democratic primary in a swing district in Kansas, and Amanda Douglas, a member of the Cherokee nation, advanced to a runoff election in the Democratic primary for a deeply conservative Oklahoma congressional district. Unlike many of the female candidates running for office in the wake of Trump’s election, this is far from Haaland’s first foray into politics. He recalled that New Mexicans elected the Republican Susana Martinez after she reminded voters that she would be “the nation’s first Hispanic female governor”. “People like to make history. But Haaland’s primary success was not a marginal one, Monahan added. In a Democratic district, she is positioned favorably ahead of the general election. “But every now and then I’ll get a sense from someone else and it makes me emotional because I realize that, for some people, they never thought they would see someone like them in Congress.”