Wendy Long is taking up New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand’s challenge. “Senator Gillibrand has said she wants to see more women in politics,” Long said in her speech to the state GOP convention last week, responding to the Democratic incumbent. “I say let’s give her what she’s asking for.”

Long, a lawyer, wife, and mother of two, is hoping to challenge Gillibrand for her seat this November. But first, she’ll have to face two GOP opponents—Congressman Bob Turner, who won a surprising victory to replace disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner last year, and Nassau County comptroller George Maragos—in a statewide primary on June 26. Long has an edge in the primary race, emerging from the state GOP convention with support from 47 percent of the delegates. (Turner and Maragos won just enough support to earn a spot on the primary ballot.) And on Monday, Long won the nomination of New York’s influential Conservative party, which often (but not always) endorses Republican candidates as well.