In an interview with US Glamour earlier this month, Nixon outlined the areas she would focus on if elected governor of New York: racial and economic injustice, a lack of affordable housing, state education and the public transport system.

She also hit back at the idea that her lack of political experience and TV past meant she wasn’t up for the job.

“We talk a lot about outsiders, but sometimes a little naïveté is exactly what is needed,” she said. “With a jaded system, everybody says, ‘Yeah, well, that’s the way it is.’ You need somebody to come and say, “Why? Why is that the way it is?’”

“Don’t try to tell me that I don’t have a right to stand here and say, ‘I want to be governor, because I think you’re doing a lousy job. Nobody is talking about the things that you’re not doing, so I am going to do it.’”

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