the wherewithal to run,” she said at the time. "I think about him every single day."

Deidre DeJear, 32, won the Democratic primary for secretary of state in Iowa, where she'll challenge the Republican incumbent, Paul D. Pate, according to The Associated Press. DeJear was the state's director of African-American outreach on Obama’s 2012 campaign, and a volunteer on his 2008 campaign. She is the first black person to be nominated by a major party to statewide office in Iowa, and if she wins in November, she would be the first to be elected to statewide office in Iowa, too, according to WQAD.

DeJear defeated Jim Mowrer, who worked at the Pentagon during the Obama administration and on Obama's 2008 campaign, according to his LinkedIn page.

Ammar Campa-Najjar, 29, came insecond in California's 50th Congressional District top-two primary, where he'll take on incumbent Rep. Duncan Hunter, a Republican, according to The A.P. (The Associated Press has confirmed winners that NBC News has not yet called because the margins of the races are small enough to not yet meet NBC News' statistical standards.)

Campa-Najjar was a deputy regional field director for Southern California on Obama's 2012 campaign before moving to Washington for stints at the White House and Department of Labor.

Tom Malinowski, 52, who served as an assistant secretary of state for democracy, human rights and labor in the Obama administration, won in New Jersey’s 7th Congressional District, according to The A.P., where he'll challenge the vulnerable Republican incumbent, Rep. Leonard Lance.

Also in New Jersey, Andy Kim ran uncontested in