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Jacinda Ardern, Prime Minister of New Zealand, has recently become the first head of government to give birth while in office since Benazir Bhutto in 1990. Challenge: A POTUS gives birth. A couple of months ago, Tammy Duckworth became the first US Senator to give birth in office--but she was only elected to the Senate in 2016, and it is a little hard to see her on a national ticket before her election as Senator. Anyway, that would be current politics, so let's think of some possibilities from the past.

Cathy McMorris Rodgers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathy_McMorris_Rodgers on the GOP's national ticket in a TL where Kerry wins (or Gore is re-elected) in 2004?

Yvonne Brathwaite Burke was the first member of Congress to give birth while in office (at the age of 41 in 1973). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yvonne_Brathwaite_Burke (Her daughter Autumn Burke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autumn_Burke is now in the California State Assembly.) But I doubt that the Democrats were yet ready to have an African American woman on their national ticket in the 1970s--especially if she was "only" a member of the House of Representatives. Though Yvonne and Autumn might appeal to a lot of voters with photos like this:

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