A mother-of-three and fitness instructor could be on track to become the first black female member of Congress.
Mia Love, who is also a Mormon and mayor of a small town in Utah, has stunned political analysts by winning her primary election.
If she wins her congressional election, the 36-year-old will make political history as the first black Republican woman to serve in Congress.
Political analysts have described her achievements ‘astonishing’ and ‘unprecedented.’
Their political battle has become one of the most closely-watched congressional contests in the U.S.
Love was born in Brooklyn and raised in Connecticut before settling in Utah 14 years ago.
She met her future husband, Jason Love, in college while he was on a Mormon mission in Connecticut.
When she moved to the state she left the Catholic Church and joined the Church of the Latter-Day Saints.
HISTORIC SCOOP: The first African-American woman to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm of New York, won election in 1968. 30 African-American women have followed her since then but ALL have been democrats. NONE have ever been republican.
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