Kayto Sullivan said he has two advantages as a candidate in Arizona’s 1st Congressional District race: He’s Native American and a Democrat.

Those two characteristics play well, he said, for a district where Native Americans make up 23 percent of the population and a Democrat, U.S. Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, has won in the last two elections.

However, Sullivan will have to find other attributes to sell himself on in order to emerge from a crowded primary race that includes three other Democrats, eight Republicans and one independent candidate.

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