She Was a Refugee From Afghanistan. She May Soon Enter the New Hampshire Legislature.

[TomSea]

She Was a Refugee From Afghanistan. She May Soon Enter the New Hampshire Legislature.

Safiya Wazir, 27, who fled the Taliban with her family in 1997, won an upset victory in a New Hampshire primary. “There can be change, yes. Why not?” she said.

It was a mere state house race, below the radar, with fewer than 500 votes cast. But Safiya Wazir’s upset victory in New Hampshire on Tuesday is yet one more striking example of how nontraditional candidates are upending expectations in this extraordinary election season.

Ms. Wazir, just 27 and a refugee from Afghanistan, toppled a four-term incumbent in the Democratic primary for state representative in a blue-collar neighborhood of Concord, the state capital.

Continued at: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/us/politics/wazir-new-hampshire.html