“I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family is, what their faith experience has been, their education, their work experience. All of those are factors that voters look at because they want to take a measure of the individual.”

American politician

Michele Bachmann is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Minnesota’s 6th congressional district from 2007 to 2015. A Republican, she also ran for president of the United States in the 2012 election. She represented Minnesota in Congress for four terms before leaving office in 2015. Her national campaign ended after the Iowa caucuses.