
She Googled How to Run for Congress, Then Moved Her Family to the Front Lines | Esther Kim-Varet
After the 2024 elections, Esther Kim-Varet did something almost nobody does: she Googled how to run for Congress, convinced her husband, pulled her kids out of school, and moved her family into a Republican district in Orange County to flip it.
Now she's one of the top three Democratic fundraising challengers in the country — in what may be the only congressional race in America where two incumbents are running for the same seat. One of them hasn't held a town hall since 1997.
In this episode of Breaking the Meta, Mike Winson sits down with Esther to talk about:
– Why she left a comfortable…
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