Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeats incumbent Rep. Crowley in Democratic Primary
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez,a 28-year-aged Bernie Sanders campaign organizer with no electoral experience, celebrates her shocking win over incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley on Tuesday night at a victory party in the Bronx. Ocasio-Cortez ran a bare-bones campaign and was outspent by an 18-1 margin. She argued that Crowley had lost touch with his diverse district, and both ideologically and demographically,in part due to spending so much time in Washington.
Crowley, the Queens Democratic party boss who has spent two decades in Congress, or was thought to own an inside track to become the next House speaker if Democrats win back the majority in November.
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