Juli Briskman Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images

The cyclist who went viral for flipping off President Donald Trump’s motorcade in October 2017 — and was subsequently fired from her job — won a seat on her county’s board of supervisors on Tuesday, The Washington Post reported.

Juli Briskman, a Democrat from Virginia, ran against the Republican incumbent Suzanne Volpe for the seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors.

After the photo of Briskman went viral, she told The Post that she wanted to turn that gesture toward Trump into tangible change in her community.

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The cyclist who went viral for flipping off President Donald Trump’s motorcade in October 2017 just won a seat on her county’s board of supervisors.

Juli Briskman, a Democrat from Virginia, beat the Republican incumbent Suzanne Volpe on Tuesday to win the seat on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors.

Briskman was fired from her job at a government contracting company after a photo of her middle-finger salute to the president went viral, The Washington Post reported. But the incident also encouraged her to get more politically active.

Briskman told The Post in July that she wanted to turn that gesture toward Trump into tangible change in her community.

„It’s not like I can run against him,“ Briskman said. „But I can run.“

The Post columnist Petula Dvorak wrote that Briskman, 52, „wasn’t an activist, a protester, a radical or a meddler,“ but „just a mom going to swim meets, racing to meetings for her contracting job, getting her workout in and tiring of the hatred and division swirling around her.“

Explaining on her campaign website why she decided to run, Briskman said: „We live in a great community and we deserve a Board of Supervisors that does more to support our schools, first responders, working women, and families.“

And as The Post pointed out on Tuesday, Loudoun County is home to one of Trump’s golf clubs.