Amanda Becker

Washington Correspondent

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CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — It is 2 p.m. on a Friday before a long weekend and as Kat Abughazaleh sits down at the tamales restaurant near her campaign office on Chicago’s North Side, she laments that the day has been so busy that she’d only managed to scrounge up a single saltine with some hot sauce.

Saltines and hot sauce have become a go-to snack for the 26-year-old Democratic congressional candidate. Running for the House of Representatives has proven to be consuming, and the combo always seems to be on hand.

Already that day, Abughazaleh had woken up early for a therapy appointment (that she’d forgotten to schedule), taken her cat to the vet, arrived at the office for an all-day staff retreat to

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