Averie Bishop, who is running as a Democrat, is challenging state Rep. Angie Chen Button, R-Richardson, for House District 112.
Bishop said she made a personal commitment to run for office following the results of the 2016 elections, which took place during her freshman year of college. After seeing her classmates’ emotional reaction to Donald Trump’s presidential win, she said she felt compelled to get involved in politics.
SMU law student Averie Bishop, who is Miss Dallas 2020, raises a sign as Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., holds a Valentine's Day rally at the Mesquite Arena on Feb. 14, 2020 in Mesquite, Texas. “I just started creating content about my personal experience as a woman of color, navigating the legal industry,” she said, “and having these difficult conversations around the stigma of mental health in the Asian American community.”When Bishop was crowned Miss Texas in 2022, she was the first Asian American to win in the pageant’s 85-year history. She said she initially entered the competition as a way to pay back some of her student loans.
“As the decade moves forward, the district will probably become more Democratic because in Dallas County, all voters — whether they’re white, Black, Hispanic, or Asian — are becoming a little bit more Democratic each cycle,” Angle said.
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