WINNER! ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ - The Biggest Progressive Win of the Year! - NY CD14 - June 26, 2018
WINNER - June 26 Primary
The Biggest Progressive Win of the Year!
The King of Queens has been dethroned.
Rep. Joe Crowley, the Queens County Democratic Party boss who was in line to potentially become the next Speaker of the House, was handed a stunning defeat by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Bernie Sanders organizer who ran to his left and as an antidote to machine politics.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28 year old progressive candidate in NY14, has just won against 10 year incumbent, Joe Crowley. This congressional district consists of Queens and the Bronx.
Ocasio-Cortez has fought a hard battle to win against an unwanted incumbent, and she will fight for the people in Congress.
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an educator, organizer, and third generation New Yorker who challenged the real-estate industry funded Joe Crowley in the June 26th Democratic Primary.
Ocasio2018 began over a year ago as a small, corporate-free campaign on tiny odds. It has since exploded into one of the most closely watched and hotly contested primary elections in the nation.
This race was and still is about People vs. Money.
Bronx and Queens: Showed up to the polls and voted!
Alexandria fought to enact Improved and Expanded Medicare-for-all, a Federal Jobs Guarantee, Tuition-Free College, Criminal Justice Reform and more -- not in a hundred years, but right now.
Thousands of Bronx and Queens residents organized around Alexandria' candidacy to trigger the first NY-14 primary election in 14 years. Ocasio is the only candidate who doesn’t take corporate lobbyist PAC money. She's the only candidate who lives in the district. And she’s the best candidate to represent the district because of her advocacy, on-the-ground commitment, and working class roots. She fights for us - because she's #OneOfUs.