A small-town mayor in Utah is trying to make congressional history.
Mia Love wants to become the first black Republican woman in the U.S. House of Representatives. If elected, she vows to bring conservative principles to the Congressional Black Caucus.
Love, 37, faces Rep. Jim Matheson, a six-term Democratic incumbent, in the November general election. But she has already energized Republicans in Utah and across the country.
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