The female cyclist who flipped off President Trump’s motorcade last year will run for a local office in Northern Virginia in a bid to capitalize on the newfound fame. Juli Briskman, 51, will seek to unseat Suzanne M. Volpe, a Republican who represents the Algonkian District on the Loudoun County Board of Supervisors, in the 2019 election. The board has been consistently controlled by Republicans, despite that the county voting for Democrats in state or federal elections, the Washington Post reported. The woman captured headlines after she flipped off the president’s motorcade as an act of resistance to the administration. “Needless to say, I’ll focus on the race at the appropriate time.”The Associated Press contributed to this report.

Source: Fox News September 15, 2018 15:56 UTC