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By John Wojcik
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rolled to a blowout victory in her Democratic primary yesterday in her New York City Congressional District that covers parts of the Bronx and Queens.
AOC, as she is popularly known across the country, trounced three opponents in New York’s 14th Congressional District, garnering what looks like more than 81% of the vote. Votes are slow in coming for all the primary races yesterday because of large numbers of mail-in ballots that have yet to be counted.
The big victories yesterday indicate that there is indeed a progressive movement impacting the direction of the Democratic Party, with a good deal of the credit going to the campaign led by Sen. Bernie Sanders. AOC’s massive win, in particular, shows that her victory two years ago against a long-time Democratic incumbent was much more than a fluke, as some claimed at the time, implying her win was more the result of a vibrant newcomer running against an absentee congressman who hardly appeared before the electorate.
The freshman lawmaker noted on social media last night that Tuesday proved her surprise upset in 2018 was not a “fluke.” The democratic socialist said that her defeat of 10-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley at that time was a part of a serious movement propelled by the concerns of the voters. Tuesday proved it.
“Our win was treated as an aberration, or (because) my opponent ‘didn’t try,’” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a tweet last night. “So from the start, tonight’s race was important to me. Tonight, we are proving that the people’s movement in NY isn’t an accident. It’s a mandate...
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