Midterm Update: 28-year-old Latina Defeats Establishment Democrat In Primary Upset
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ποΈ 27 June 2018
β±οΈ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Quinn from Rochester, New York, where I just finished helping collect the ballots |
| 0:04.5 | in Monroe County after the Democratic Congressional primary. |
| 0:08.2 | This podcast was recorded at 11.49 AM on Wednesday, June 27th. |
| 0:13.6 | Things might have changed by the time you've heard this. |
| 0:15.7 | Okay, here's the show. |
| 0:17.0 | Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast. |
| 0:22.6 | Here with the results from Tuesday's primaries. |
| 0:25.1 | I'm Asma Khaled, political reporter. |
| 0:27.0 | I'm Mara Lias and National Political Correspondent, and I'm Susan Davis, I cover Congress. |
| 0:31.6 | All right, let's start with the name that everyone knows this morning. |
| 0:35.3 | My name is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. |
| 0:38.7 | Last night, she was up against Joe Crowley, a 10-term incumbent in New York City. |
| 0:43.7 | It's time we acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same. |
| 0:48.0 | That a Democrat who takes corporate money, profits off foreclosure, doesn't live here, doesn't |
| 0:53.4 | send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe our air, cannot possibly |
| 0:58.9 | represent us. |
| 1:00.6 | So Mara Waka's through real quick, what happened last night? |
| 1:04.6 | What happened was that a 28-year-old female Latina beat the number four Democrat in the |
| 1:12.0 | House leadership structure, which was an incredible upset. |
| 1:17.0 | That just doesn't happen. |
| 1:18.6 | And that video that you just played a clip of was very, very powerful. It showed her young |
| 1:23.8 | Latina woman going to work, changing her shoes on the subway platform, rushing out the |
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