88 MINUTES WITH...Andy Kim

The new senator from New Jersey has vowed to shake up the political Establishment, a difficult task in Trump's Washington.

- GABRIEL DEBENEDETTI

IN MID-DECEMBER, Andy Kim walked out of a lunch meeting with his fellow Democrats in the Capitol and straight up to a bank of cameras. The little-known representative from South Jersey had been sworn into the U.S. Senate the night before and was now standing next to Chuck Schumer and Adam Schiff, who each took their turn at the mics to talk about the difficult work ahead. The questions came fast and thick: How would Schumer work with a resurgent GOP? Should Joe Biden preemptively pardon officials like Schiff, who had investigated January 6? If the topic of the day was what kind of opposition party the Democrats were going to be in round two of the Donald Trump era, Kim seemed beside the point. No one asked him anything.