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In a closely watched primary, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-New York, has emerged victorious, securing her position as the Democratic candidate for New York’s 14th Congressional District.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez handily won her Democratic primary over a conservative-backed challenger Tuesday. The far-left “Squad” member racked up enough votes to beat back a challenge from...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez graduated from Boston University College of Arts & Sciences in 2011. She was a volunteer organizer for Sanders' presidential campaign and worked in former Sen. Ted Kennedy's (D-Mass.) foreign affairs and immigration office. Ocasio-Cortez founded Brook Avenue Press, a children's book publisher.
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Tested positive for coronavirus on January 9, 2022
1. 1.1. See also: Government official, politician, and candidate deaths, diagnoses, and quarantines due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, 2020-2021 Ocasio-Cortez announced on January 9, 2022, that she tested positive for COVID-19. She said she was vaccinated at the time she contracted the virus.
Netflix documentary about 2018 campaign
Netflix aired a documentary on May 1, 2019, called "Knock Down the House," which follows the campaigns of four women who ran for Congress in 2018. The women profiled are Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and former House candidates Amy Vilela (Nevada) and Cori Bush (Missouri), as well as former Senate candidate Paula Jean Swearengin (West Virginia). The documentary also shows how the political action committees Justice Democrats and Brand New Congressoperate when they recruit and help ca...
Staffing support for Senate challenger
After winning the 2018 Democratic primary, Ocasio-Cortez announced that she would send three members of her campaign staff to assist Kerri Evelyn Harris (D), who was running for U.S. Senate in Delaware against three-term incumbent Thomas Carper (D). An Ocasio-Cortez campaign spokesman said the campaign was sending the staffers as a gesture of thanks to the Harris campaign for its support of Ocasio-Cortez's candidacy. Harris was among a series of candidates aligned with Justice Democrats who O...
Jun 26, 2024 · Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated Democratic primary challenger Marty Dolan in her race to hold onto her seat representing New York's 14th Congressional District.
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Mar 2, 2021 · AOC received a total of 152,661 votes to 58,440 for Cummings. Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, who AOC defeated in the primary, received 0.5% of the vote running on the Serve America Movement party line. Write-in candidates received 0.1% of the vote in the race.
Without campaigning for it, Ocasio-Cortez won the Reform Party primary as a write-in candidate in a neighbouring congressional district, New York's 15th, with a total vote count of nine, highest among all 22 write-in candidates. She declined the nomination.
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Jun 23, 2020 · More than 1.8 million absentee ballots have been requested so far, according to the most recent data from the state board of elections, which compares to only 115,178 absentee ballots in the 2016 presidential primary -- underscoring the state's preference for in-person voting.
