Behind the scenes of the 2018 wave of women candidates for Congress - Roll Call

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Underwood joked that if there were a documentary about her 2020 campaign, “We’d have like a webcam set up on a wall and you’d watch me on a lot of Zooms.” But she said she is still out in the community, hosting “porch parties” so everyone can be socially distanced. 

Her opponent this year is Republican state senator Jim Oberweis, and he was not the favored candidate of national Republicans. Case in point: the Congressional Leadership Fund, a House Republican-aligned super PAC, sent cash to the Illinois Conservative PAC, which in turn disclosed spending more than $900,000 against Oberweis just before the mid-March primary, which he won.   

The House GOP campaign arm has continued to brand Underwood a “fake nurse,” a repeat of 2018 attacks. She holds a nursing degree from the University of Michigan as well as master’s degrees in public health nursing and health policy from Johns Hopkins University.  And she served in the Health and Human Services Department during former President Barack Obama’s administration.

A spokesperson for the National Republican Congressional Committee, Carly Atchison, said in a statement in June that Underwood “posed as a nurse in campaign commercials to get elected and become another liberal, lying Washington politician.”

Underwood called the attacks “baseless” and “gross mischaracterizations.” And she said watching the film helped her brush off those questions about her credentials.

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