- The congressman lost his 25-year-old son, Tommy, to suicide in late 2020, and wrote a memoir about working through the “unthinkable trauma and loss” that followed Tommy’s death and the Capitol riot.
- Raskin is also no stranger to cancer.
- More than a decade ago, when Raskin was a state senator, he was diagnosed with stage 3 colon cancer, for which he underwent radiation, chemotherapy, and surgery.
