{"id":1058,"date":"2018-06-27T06:41:08","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/multi.nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/2018\/06\/27\/28-year-old-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-defeats-the-weak-democratic-machine-to-take-congress-seat-in-queens\/"},"modified":"2018-06-27T06:41:08","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T10:41:08","slug":"28-year-old-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-defeats-the-weak-democratic-machine-to-take-congress-seat-in-queens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/28-year-old-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-defeats-the-weak-democratic-machine-to-take-congress-seat-in-queens\/","title":{"rendered":"28 Year Old Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Defeats the Weak Democratic Machine To Take Congress Seat in Queens"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexandrai Ocasio-Cortez<\/strong>, a 28 year old Bernie Sanders organizer, stunned the democratic machine and Joseph Crowley, the 10 term Queens Congressman, as she defeated Crowley in the Queens Congressional primary.\u00a0 This was Ocasio’s first run at political office, and it should be a message to all democrats that the “machine” is weak. Newcomers like Ocasio are what the democratic party needs if they want to defeat Trump in the next Presidential race. Continued support of long time incumbents like Crowley is a failing recipe, and this win is proof that the people want change. Crowley outspent Ocasio by a ratio of 10 to 1.<\/p>\n

According to CNN “this was the first time in 14 years a member of his own party has attempted to unseat Crowley, who chairs the Queens County Democrats. His defeat marks a potential sea change in the broader sphere of liberal politics”.<\/p>\n

Ocasio supports universal healthcare (healthcare for all), tuition free college, abolishing ICE and federal jobs guarantee.<\/p>\n

In typical old time politics, Crowley skipped out on a debate with Ocasio, and instead sent former councilwoman\u00a0Annabel Palma, in his place.\u00a0 Obviously the people responded to the disrespect by voting the Queens Democratic Chair out of office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alexandrai Ocasio-Cortez, a 28 year old Bernie Sanders organizer, stunned the democratic machine and Joseph Crowley, the 10 term Queens Congressman, as she defeated Crowley in the Queens Congressional primary.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5887,"featured_media":1059,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-queens"],"yoast_head":"\n28 Year Old Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Defeats the Weak Democratic Machine To Take Congress Seat in Queens - NYC Political News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/28-year-old-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-defeats-the-weak-democratic-machine-to-take-congress-seat-in-queens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"28 Year Old Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Defeats the Weak Democratic Machine To Take Congress Seat in Queens\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Alexandrai Ocasio-Cortez, a 28 year old Bernie Sanders organizer, stunned the democratic machine and Joseph Crowley, the 10 term Queens Congressman, as she defeated Crowley in the Queens Congressional primary.\u00a0 […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/28-year-old-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-defeats-the-weak-democratic-machine-to-take-congress-seat-in-queens\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"NYC Political News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-06-27T10:41:08+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2018\/06\/ocasio.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"801\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"801\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Dave MArks\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Dave MArks\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/28-year-old-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-defeats-the-weak-democratic-machine-to-take-congress-seat-in-queens\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/nycnewsnetwork.com\/nycpolitics\/28-year-old-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-defeats-the-weak-democratic-machine-to-take-congress-seat-in-queens\/\",\"name\":\"28 Year Old Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Defeats the Weak Democratic Machine To Take Congress Seat in Queens - 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