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Home Front: Politix

High-ranking House Democrat dealt surprise defeat at polls

2018-06-27

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Democratic Party’s insurgent left wing and Republican U.S. President Donald Trump each claimed big victories on Tuesday, as voters in seven states selected the parties’ candidates for November’s midterm elections that will determine control of Congress.

U.S. Representative Joseph Crowley, a high-ranking Democrat seen as a possible future leader of the chamber, lost his re-election bid in a stunning upset that highlighted the ideological battles at play in this year’s midterm elections.

Crowley, a 10-term incumbent who was fourth in line in the House of Representatives’ Democratic leadership, was defeated by 28-year-old challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in a safely Democratic district in New York City.

Political analysts cast Ocasio-Cortez’s win as the biggest upset since House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, a Republican, lost in 2014 to a little-known right-wing professor, Dave Brat.

The outcome of the New York race added fuel to the battle between the Democratic Party’s establishment wing, led by longtime House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, and a more liberal faction inspired by Bernie Sanders’ presidential run in 2016. Ocasio-Cortez served as an organizer for Sanders’ campaign.
Her priorities:
Banish ICE
Medicare For All
Free Education
Open Borders
Universal Jobs Guarantee
Housing As a Human Right
Invest in 100% Renewable Energy
"Justice System Reform" = open the jails

She went to Boston University, where she studied economics and international relations. After graduation she took up bartending and waitressing jobs to supplement her mother's income as a housecleaner and bus driver.

Posted by:Besoeker

#9 Now the idiots will be stuck with pelosi

Posted by: newc 2018-06-27 16:50

#8 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a four-fer for the Dems: Woman, Hispanic, socialist and millennial (young). Clone of Bernie. Worked for the "Lion of the Senate" for a short time.

When will the Dems get honest and change the party name to the Democratic Socialist Party or the Red Party or the Communist Party?

Posted by: JohnQC 2018-06-27 13:55

#7 Universal Jobs Guarantee
Housing As a Human Right
Invest in 100% Renewable Energy
"Ooh, ooh, Ooh!" [Raises hand while jumping up and down] "That's Easy! Political Reeducation Camps for anyone that doesn't 'volunteer' to work in the 'People's Co-Prosperity Working Centers'... 'Slave Labor 'Camps, you say?' *Pshaw!* Um, Guards, here's another Volunteer..."

Posted by: magpie 2018-06-27 13:19

#6 the NYTimes didn't cover the race much at all and thus the turnout from the establishment left was probably pretty low allowing the insurgent left and hispanic identity groups to win (hispanics are about 50% of the population of the district).

Posted by: lord garth 2018-06-27 12:48

#5 I think P2K has the right of it. I am the only registered Repub in town, or so the poll workers announce (loudly) every time I vote. Yet everyone in the neighborhood is very down on where the Dems stand at the moment. They are disconnected from the present Dem political positions, and seem to be adrift. Maybe it is because they all work hard every day. Very different from a Bernie bro.

Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2018-06-27 09:42

#4 ..or maybe the 'old' Democrats aren't showing up anymore leaving the field to the Left's radicals. If the 'old' block stays home, the Left can't hold on to what the party already had.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-27 09:11

#3 The left is a full communist/facist weird blend at this point.

Posted by: DarthVader 2018-06-27 08:54

#2 Moving faster to the Left.

If the Trunks had any smarts (which of course is more than a bit of a contradiction), they'd be funding PRI has the 'new' party for Mexicalifornia.

Posted by: Procopius2k 2018-06-27 08:23

#1 Crowley, a 10-term incumbent who was fourth in line in the House of Representatives’ Democratic leadership, was defeated by 28-year-old challenger Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Personally, I find the belief of the D-elites that "Hispanics" will keep voting for Anglo candidates even after they're a majority in a district touching. Yep, that's the word, touching.

Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2018-06-27 03:46

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