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30 October 2018updated 03 Nov 2018 6:36pm

Blue Wave: Meet Andy Kim, the 36-year-old former Obama aide running to protect healthcare in New Jersey

Kim says he was inspired to run in reaction to the incumbent Republican Tom MacArthur’s efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

By Sophie McBain

Andy Kim, a 36-year-old former national security adviser to the Obama administration, says that one of the reasons he decided to run for Congress was the birth last year of his youngest son, August. Kim and his wife were warned late in her pregnancy that there were complications: his son was dangerously underweight.

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