Tran has a real chance to win Royce’s seat. In 2016, in California’s 39th congressional district, over 50% of the vote went to Secretary Clinton, and the demographic is majority-minority (with 31.88% identifying as Asian), according to U.S. census bureau figures.

Dan Koh – Running for Massachusetts’s 3rd congressional district

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“Our country is the greatest the world has ever known. But America is not perfect. We have work to do,” Dan Koh said in his campaign launch video. The 31-time marathoner and former chief of staff for both Boston mayor Martin J. Walsh and for Arianna Huffington when she was editor in chief of the Huffington Post, is running for Congress in Massachusetts’s 3rd district. As the descendant of Lebanese and Korean immigrants, Koh is running on a platform to preserve the American Dream.

Jane Kim – Running for mayor of San Francisco

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Last month, San Francisco mayor Ed Lee, the city’s first Asian-American and Chinese-American mayor unexpectedly passed away, pushing local politics back onto the campaign trail with a special election coming up in June. One of the eight candidates who have filed their run for mayor, is current member of the San Francisco board of supervisors, Jane Kim.

In her current role, Kim led the initiative to make San Francisco the first city in the nation where community college is free for all residents. If elected, she would be the city’s first female Asian-American mayor.

Kim first ran for local office when she was just 26 years old. When asked by Teen Vogue what she would say to women across the country, she said, “To all the young women out there — run!”

John Chiang – Running for California governor