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The Daily 202's Big Idea

The No. 4 House Democrat going down foreshadows the party’s coming identity crisis

The Daily 202's Big Idea

The Washington Post

Politics, News, Daily News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2018

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez embodies and personifies several trends we’ve seen in this election cycle. She’s a woman. She’s a first-time candidate. Her mother immigrated to New York from Puerto Rico. And she beat 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley.

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Good morning. I'm James Holman from the Washington Post and this is the Daily

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2002 for Wednesday June 27th. In today's news, the Supreme Court upholds the travel ban. A federal judge

0:26.6

orders that all the kids taken from their parents at the border must be

0:29.8

reunited within a month. And Trump's pick to lead the VA has a long history as a

0:35.4

combatant in the culture wars. But first, the big idea. The number four House Democrat going down

0:48.2

foreshadows the party's coming identity crisis. Representative Joseph Crowley of New York, a top-ranking Democrat, lost in a stunning upset Tuesday

0:58.0

to a little-known primary challenger, sending shock waves through the party out of power less than five months before the midterm elections.

1:05.2

It wasn't even close. With all the ballots tallied,

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Alexandria Ocasio Cortez, a 28-year-old activist, beat Crowley by 15 points, 57% to 42%.

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She was a bartender as recently as last year and worked as a field organizer for Bernie Sanders'

1:21.9

2016 campaign. At her victory party in the Bronx, she was Juba.

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This victory belongs to every single grassroots organizer, every working parent, every mom, every member of the LGBT

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community every single person is responsible for this.

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Okasio Cortez embodies and personifies several trends we've seen so far

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this election cycle. She's a woman, she's a

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first-time candidate, and her mother immigrated to New York from Puerto Rico.

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More than half of the district's residents 54% are Latino.

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Ocasio Cortez aggressively reached out to communities of color who are typically

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ignored during primary campaigns.

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