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Beating an incumbent by a large margin gives me some hope ... especially a woman candidate from a Puerta Rican minority.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Millennial beats veteran Democrat | BBC News | A millennial candidate has shaken up the US Democratic Party having beaten the incumbent congressman for his seat. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, defeated political veteran Joe Crowley, 56, on Tuesday night in their party's congressional primary in New York City. Mr Crowley, a 10-term Democrat, had been tipped as a future party leader or even Speaker of the House. Ms Ocasio-Cortez, a former Bernie Sanders volunteer from a Puerto Rican family, won with a 57.5% majority. Today I saw people voting that are almost never seen in an off-year midterm primary.Just now, as I'm typing this with 8 minutes left, two young men of color, 20 years old, just walked up to me and said they just voted.2 yrs ago, the "experts" told me not to bother with them.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) June 27, 2018 Mr Crowley, who had not faced a challenger from his own party in 14 years, had 42.5% in the majority ethnic minority district, which covers parts of the Bronx and Queens. Ms Ocasio-Cortez will now face Republican candidate Anthony Pappas in the November mid-terms. This was @Ocasio2018's platform, taken from her office in Elmhurst, Queens ---> pic.twitter.com/w9KqwRl00x— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) June 27, 2018 Thank you, @JoeCrowleyNY, for your support and longstanding service to our community.I look forward to working towards a takeback of the House on a strong platform of economic, social, and racial justice for working class New Yorkers & Americans.Let's do this. https://t.co/bhYclAXjiA— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) June 27, 2018
A millennial candidate has shaken up the US Democratic Party having beaten the incumbent congressman for his seat.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, defeated political veteran Joe Crowley, 56, on Tuesday night in their party's congressional primary in New York City.
Mr Crowley, a 10-term Democrat, had been tipped as a future party leader or even Speaker of the House.
Ms Ocasio-Cortez, a former Bernie Sanders volunteer from a Puerto Rican family, won with a 57.5% majority.
Today I saw people voting that are almost never seen in an off-year midterm primary.Just now, as I'm typing this with 8 minutes left, two young men of color, 20 years old, just walked up to me and said they just voted.2 yrs ago, the "experts" told me not to bother with them.— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) June 27, 2018
Today I saw people voting that are almost never seen in an off-year midterm primary.Just now, as I'm typing this with 8 minutes left, two young men of color, 20 years old, just walked up to me and said they just voted.2 yrs ago, the "experts" told me not to bother with them.
Mr Crowley, who had not faced a challenger from his own party in 14 years, had 42.5% in the majority ethnic minority district, which covers parts of the Bronx and Queens.
Ms Ocasio-Cortez will now face Republican candidate Anthony Pappas in the November mid-terms.
This was @Ocasio2018's platform, taken from her office in Elmhurst, Queens ---> pic.twitter.com/w9KqwRl00x— Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) June 27, 2018
This was @Ocasio2018's platform, taken from her office in Elmhurst, Queens ---> pic.twitter.com/w9KqwRl00x
Thank you, @JoeCrowleyNY, for your support and longstanding service to our community.I look forward to working towards a takeback of the House on a strong platform of economic, social, and racial justice for working class New Yorkers & Americans.Let's do this. https://t.co/bhYclAXjiA— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) June 27, 2018
Thank you, @JoeCrowleyNY, for your support and longstanding service to our community.I look forward to working towards a takeback of the House on a strong platform of economic, social, and racial justice for working class New Yorkers & Americans.Let's do this. https://t.co/bhYclAXjiA
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See Greenwald interview her a few weeks ago.
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