Political MercuryShadow senator sees energy, momentum for statehood, an unintended Trump legacyHe is a United States senator. Ankit Jain ran for election in 2024 and won — and he represents 702,000 people as one of two Washington, D.C. “shadow” senators. Jain’s office isn’t on the capitol grounds but rather a half mile away in the John A. Wilson Building, the center of D.C. local government. “What this is showing is just exactly that, what the impacts are on the ground of us not being a state,” Jain said. “It seems like what we are seeing mostly up until now is an immigration raid in D.C.,” Jain said.