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AOC’s 14th District swung to Trump by one of the highest margins among Big Apple voters. In 2020, nearly four out of five voters (77%) voted for Joe Biden and 22% cast ballots for Trump.
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had been the No. 2 Democrat on the committee for the past two years under ranking member Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.), who is moving over to the top Dem spot on the House ...
The former chief of staff to U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., announced Wednesday his intention to run against Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., calling the Democratic Party "paralyzed and ...
On November 5, 2021, Ocasio-Cortez was one of six House Democrats to break with their party and vote against the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, as it was decoupled from the social safety net provisions in the Build Back Better Act. [224] [225] In September 2022, Ocasio-Cortez was asked about running for president.
[79] As of June 2020, she had 7.3 million Twitter followers, [90] up from 1.4 million in November 2018 [79] and surpassing Nancy Pelosi. [91] By July 2019, that had risen to almost 4.8 million, [92] or about seven times the population of her congressional district.
She called for Eric Adams to stand down — but she doesn’t want his job. Meanwhile, seasoned New York politicians fear a primary challenge from her. That’s exactly why she isn’t launching one
Ocasio-Cortez and Pressley unseated Joe Crowley and Mike Capuano, respectively, in primary elections.Omar won the seat previously held by Democrat Keith Ellison, who retired from the House to successfully run for Attorney General of Minnesota, and Tlaib won the seat once held by Dean of the House John Conyers, who resigned in 2017 after nearly 53 years in Congress.
The endorsement came after Raskin staged a public challenge against Nadler to lead the committee. That sets Raskin up to become chairman the next time Democrats take the House.