NY-11: Can an Afro-Latina combat veteran make a run at Congress in 'Trump district' Staten Island?
NEW YORK — For Brittany Ramos DeBarros, an Afro-Latina combat veteran and activist, running for Congress as a Democrat in the historically conservative borough of Staten Island serves as the kind of challenge that puts her life’s work into action.
“I learned in the military and so many different contexts of leadership what it means to really lead with heart and in a way that is about serving people and not about you or your ego,” DeBarros told Yahoo News in a video interview last week.
The Texas native who has worked with the Poor People’s Campaign and About Face: Veterans Against the War is running to represent New York’s 11th Congressional District, which includes all of Staten Island and parts of southern Brooklyn.
DeBarros, whose mother is white and father is Black Puerto Rican, adds that she hopes people in the district “see something of themselves in me, and more importantly, in this campaign.”
The 32-year-old is looking to do what many see as nearly impossible: unseat freshman GOP Rep. Nicole Malliotakis, who has made waves after two months in office by voting against then-President Donald Trump’s second impeachment, spewing unfounded challenges to the November election results and continuing to show unabashed allegiance to the former president. Malliotakis, who has yet to announce if she is running again in 2022, is a staunch conservative who was endorsed by Trump during her run in 2020. She then voted to overturn the presidential election results over unfounded accusations of election fraud.
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