Foxx has also been endorsed by the progressive advocacy group Gen-Z for Change. The organization’s Executive Director Cheyenne Hunt, who ran in a primary for a House seat in California last year, emphasized that the Arizona race was a key opportunity to uplift young leaders in the party.

Arizona Democrats on Tuesday will choose their nominee to run for a vacant U.S. House seat in September, as the party grapples with demands for generational change and divisions over just how progressive it can be in the era of President Donald Trump.

A special election for a vacant congressional seat in southern Arizona has become a tussle about the need for change in the Democratic party. After Rep. Raúl Grijalva died in March, Deja Foxx, 25, is gaining ground in the special Democratic primary in Arizona’s 7th District,