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Ocasio-Cortez Ally Launches Primary Challenge Against Eliot Engel
Justice Democrats, the progressive group that backed U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's upset over incumbent Congressman Joe Crowley last year, is now supporting a 2020 primary challenge against another senior Democrat. In a campaign to unseat 30-year U.S. Rep. Eliot Engel, the group said it supports Jamaal Bowman, a middle school principal and former teacher in the Bronx. New York’s 16th Congressional District includes southern Westchester and part of the Bronx. Bowman, 42, announced his campaign via this video on Tuesday. He’s running on a political platform centered on inve…
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Eye On The Senate? Ocasio-Cortez May Wage Primary Challenge To Schumer, Gillibrand, Reports Say
Top Democrats told "Axios on HBO" they think U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez may eventually primary one of New York's senators — Chuck Schumer in 2022 or Kirsten Gillibrand in 2024, according to multiple reports. Schumer has high name recognition as Senate Minority Leader. Gillibrand was easily re-elected last year, defeating Republican challenger Chele Farley by 34 percent. The freshman New York lawmaker, a Yorktown High School graduate and the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, has become the face of the Democratic Party’s progressive youth movement. This Harris poll for "Ax…
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AOC Vs. Andy: Ocasio-Cortez, Cuomo At Odds Over Climate Change, Queens DA Endorsement
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of parts of Queens and the Bronx has hopped on the Green train in Albany, criticizing Gov. Andrew Cuomo for failing to meet earlier promises of a fossil-freer future in New York. The congresswoman blasted Cuomo of New Castle for not making the environment a top priority of the current legislative session. Cuomo took to the radio airwaves to refute that claim: “I proposed the Green New Deal before there was a Green New Deal being discussed nationwide,” Cuomo told WNYC's Brian Lehrer on Tuesday, June 4. Ocasio-Cortez, a 2007 Yorktown High School gradu…
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Kellyanne Conway Spars With Ocasio-Cortez Over Response To Mass Shootings
Freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway went to war on Twitter over the weekend over the Easter Sunday church bombings in Sri Lanka. On Sunday morning, April 28, Conway was a guest on CNN’s “State of the Union” show, telling the host that Ocasio-Cortez, a 2007 Yorktown High School graduate, had tweeted “many times” about the shootings at two New Zealand mosques last month that left dozens dead, but "never once" tweeted about the Sri Lanka bombings. The spar came following Ocasio-Cortez's remarks regarding President Donald Tru…
Politics
Ocasio-Cortez Draws Bigger Crowd Than Any 2020 Dem Presidential Candidate At Texas Conference
It wasn’t any of the 2020 presidential hopefuls that took center stage at the South by Southwest conference in Texas, it was outspoken freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The 2007 Yorktown High School graduate drew a larger crowd than the presidential hopefuls, as she discussed her Green New Deal and other talking points to a capacity crowd of thousands. During her one-hour talk, she touched on topics that include social and economic policy, reform ideas and what her first few whirlwind months in Congress. She also took former president Ronald Reagan to task for his treatment o…
Politics
Ocasio-Cortez, Writer Each Accuse One Another Of 'Taking Pride' In Ignorance
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and a writer at the Wall Street Journal are using similar rhetoric as they engage in a war of words. On Thursday, Feb. 28, the Wall Street Journal tweeted a link to a column by Grace Marie Turner, in which she says that the freshman Congresswoman “leads a generation of young people to take pride in their ignorance - of the laws of nature, of history, of the Constitution, of the eternal battle for freedom - and still succeed.” In the column, Marie-Turner writes that “as much as conservatives are aghast at the over-the-top collectivist ideas of Rep. Alex…
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Ocasio-Cortez Hits Back At Ivanka Trump 'As A Person Who Actually Worked'
Freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is once again sparring with President Donald Trump’s family and administration. On Monday, in an interview released by Fox News, Ivanka Trump stated that she doesn’t believe the majority of people believe in Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal proposal that would purportedly guarantee jobs for every American. During the Fox News interview with Steve Hilton, Trump said, "I don’t think most Americans, in their heart, want to be given something. I’ve spent a lot of time traveling around this country over the last four years. People want to work for wh…
Politics
Westchester HS Grad Ocasio-Cortez Slams Trump After He Mocks Green New Deal
The battle between red and blue continues in Washington, D.C., as President Donald Trump slammed freshman Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, calling it a “high school idea.” At a rally in El Paso, the president said that the Westchester high school graduate’s plan to combat climate change “sounds like a high school term paper that got a low mark.” Trump said that the plan would involve taking away cars, tearing down buildings and shuttering air travel. “I think it is very important for the Democrats to press forward with their Green New Deal. It would be great for the …
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