The New York Democrat knows the primary process well, as her upset victory allowed her to gain a massive following the 2018 midterm election.
WASHINGTON – Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claimed her seat in the House of Representatives after challenging a long-time incumbent with a message of shaking up the status quo.
“Every lawmakers reelection and their race for sophomore year, so to speak, is always the biggest test because it is a test of how deep and long your roots go with the people who are voting for you, and how much you've been able to win and maintain their trust,” said Jon Reinish, a Democratic strategist based in New York, adding that a lawmakers first reelection fight “is always going to be your most intense.
She, like fellow members of the Squad facing primaries, has been painted by challengers as more concerned with her newfound fame and quarrels with the president than she is focused on constituents in the Bronx and Queens.
"I have always fought for these issues. I am not new to these issues. I ran on them in 2018," she said during the debate."Every promise that I made, I have delivered upon and I am proud to have championed our community when the rest of the country wanted to leave us behind." That vote and Ocasio-Cortez’s signature legislation – the Green New Deal, a sweeping climate change proposal – eventually led to infighting within the House Democratic caucus and a spat with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., where Ocasio-Cortez said Pelosi was being “disrespectful” by continuing “the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”
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