The 38-year-old auditor general is the only Missouri Democrat to hold statewide office after Republicans scored big in the past few elections, but the former college soccer player and down-to-earth mom of three boys has a great shot at upsetting incumbent Gov. Mike Parson. It is a positive sign for Galloway’s campaign that voters backed one of her key planks — Medicaid expansion — in a ballot initiative vote on Tuesday.

3. Theresa Greenfield (IA-SEN)

The 56-year-old Iowa urban planner is a key part of Democratic dreams to retake the Senate, campaigning on an aspirational career built from overcoming tragedy. Growing up on a farm, where she helped with the family crop-dusting business, she raised the funds to attend college despite the farm crisis of the ’80s. She married and was pregnant with her second child at age 24, when her husband was killed while working as a union electrical worker. The young widow picked up the pieces, with help from Social Security survivor benefits, and links her campaign against incumbent GOP Sen. Joni Ernst to preserving the social safety net.

The granddaughter of legendary farmworker organizer César Chávez was a key adviser in Kamala Harris’ run for president, and she joined the Biden team in May to bolster the (presumed) Democratic nominee’s Latino outreach. It’s a critical area, considering that Biden is currently holding only about 60 percent of the Latino vote, a number that would lag behind that of Democratic nominees from the past three election cycles.

As conservatives look for alternatives to Fox News, given how Trump frequently takes aim at any skepticism of him voiced on the network (not to mention his turbulent interview with Chris Wallace), Blaze Media will look to scoop them up. And under this former Chick-fil-A manager’s leadership, Blaze has been willing to take on pundits that even Fox won’t touch.

1. Cameron Webb (VA-5)

Running to become the first Black physician in Congress, the 37-year-old completed his medical residency at Cornell University before joining the Obama administration as a White House fellow … until, halfway through his fellowship, Trump won. While Webb continued to work on drug pricing with congressional members, including the late Elijah Cummings, he was motivated to run for Congress because of his belief that health care should be more accessible through Medicare for All. He will take on Republican Bob Good, the former athletics director at Liberty University, in a seat that leans GOP.

3. Mondaire Jones (NY-17)

He will likely join Ritchie Torres as the second openly gay Black congressman come January, but unlike his South Bronx colleague, Jones, 33, will represent tony Westchester County, home to Hillary Clinton. The Obama administration Department of Justice alum has run on one of the most progressive platforms in the country, touting the Green New Deal and Medicare for All, while saying he didn’t run merely to win office but to be “a transformational figure in American politics.”

1. Ruth Buffalo (ND House)

A citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, this public health advocate and mom has worked to fight a problem that most lawmakers still choose not to give attention to: the trafficking of, and violence against, Indigenous women and girls. In 2018, Buffalo ran against the Republican sponsor of a racially discriminatory voter ID law, and won … becoming the first Native Democrat woman to join the North Dakota state Legislature. Since then, she has made health care and food access a priority.

3. Brandon Scott (Baltimore mayor)

The president of the Baltimore City Council will likely soon be mayor of one of America’s most historic (and complicated) cities, after winning the Democratic primary in June by just 2 percentage points. Buoyed by younger voters who appreciated his story of rising out of a troubled childhood in Park Heights, the 36-year-old represents a new generation and was one of the more progressive candidates in the field — though he’s struck a deliberative note. For example, he recently called for a study of police force spending amid the “defund the police” movement. 

She started as a place holder for her imprisoned husband, but the 37-year-old former schoolteacher has grown into her own as a legitimate candidate against Europe’s last dictator, Alexander Lukashenko, ahead of Sunday’s election in Belarus. She has drawn record-breaking crowds in Minsk, Brest and a dozen smaller cities, and while Lukashenko might find a way to rig the outcome in his favor, Tikhanovskaya has punctured the notion that he’s all-powerful.

3. María Eugenia Vidal

The 46-year-old is widely seen as a future leader of Argentina's major conservative party, the Republican Proposal Party of former President Mauricio Macri. In 2015, she became the first non-Peronist to be elected governor of Buenos Aires since 1987. She has been dubbed Argentina's Margaret Thatcher for taking on unions while in office. She supports gay rights but opposes legalized abortion.