Ummmmmm, guise…
New York State Attorney General won her first political victory as a Working Families Party candidate AFTER HER OPPOSITION, WHO BEAT HER IN THE PRIOR ELECTION, WAS ASSASSINATED.
How many state attorneys general can say that their launch pad to success was their political opponent getting whacked?
"James' first run for the 35th Council District was in November 2001. In a close race, James received 42% of the vote on the Working Families Party line but lost to James E. Davis, a Democrat. In July 2003, just months before the next election, Davis was assassinated by Othniel Askew, a former political rival. Following Davis's death, his brother Geoffrey ran for his vacant Council seat on the Democratic Party ticket, but on election day, November 4, 2003, Geoffrey Davis lost by a large margin to James as the Working Families Party nominee.[12] In that 2003 race James officially became a member of the Working Families Party, and was the first citywide office-holder to run solely on the WFP line."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letitia_James