Meet The Answer To Lindsey Graham's Sister | Devil's Cut

You're a pediatrician.

You're a mother of three.

How did you go from medicine to running for office?

It was a path I never envisioned for myself, but after spending 15 years working in a children's hospital at the bedside of sick and injured children, I grew increasingly frustrated watching the impact of bad policies coming from Washington, D.C. harm my patients and their families.

Kids who are struggling with food insecurity, families who can't afford prescription drugs, kids who can't find mental health resources in their community, Parents who have to leave their sick child's bedside so they can go work their third shift job just to make ends meet.

And then the children who have been shot.

So as a problem solver, I couldn't sit on the sidelines while I watched this pattern continue to play out.

And I decided to get involved.

And it became pretty clear to me that the path to really catalyzing the change I want to see in this country for America's children is through politics.

So was there like a specific moment when you were like, okay, I'm going to do this.

I'm going to jump into politics.

I can't handle it.

I can't stop.

I can't stand this anymore.

So I think back to a couple of really pivotal moments in my life.

Number one, my youngest daughter was born six days before Donald Trump was elected in 2016.

So I was the mom of a six-day-old baby girl on that fateful night.

And so it hit me differently.

And I knew in that moment, I was going to have to find a way to do something to build the country and the world I wanted my children to grow up in.

And then the Parkland shooting in 2018 was another pivotal moment because that was the first mass school shooting I experienced as the parent of a school-aged child.

So that hit me different.

And then again, it was just the culmination of my experience working at the Children's Hospital.

And back in 2021, I was spending time at the state capitol advocating for policies that were better for children.

growing frustrated that what I was saying was falling on deaf ears.

And then that cycle in SC01, Nancy Mace's district, it was a purple district at the time.