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|name = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |
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|image = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Official Portrait.jpg |
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|state = [[New York (state)|New York]] |
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|district = {{ushr|NY|14|14th}} |
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|term_start = January 3, 2019 |
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|predecessor = [[Joe Crowley]] |
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|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1989|10|13}} |
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|birth_place = [[New York City|New York City, New York]], U.S.<!--No boroughs/neighborhoods, just cities per format.--> |
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|party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] |
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|partner = Riley Roberts (2014–present) |
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|education = [[Boston University]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]]) |
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|website = {{url|ocasio-cortez.house.gov|House website}} |
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|signature = AOC signature.png |
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|nickname = AOC |
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'''Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez'''{{Efn Spanish name|Ocasio|Cortez}} ({{IPAc-en|oʊ|ˌ|k|ɑː|s|i|oʊ|_|k|ɔːr|ˈ|t|ɛ|z}}; {{IPA-es|oˈkasjo koɾˈtes|lang}};<ref>{{cite video |last=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |title=The Courage to Change {{!}} Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez|date=May 30, 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3QXIVR0bs&t=19s|website=YouTube|access-date=May 30, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127000853/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rq3QXIVR0bs&t=19s|archive-date=January 27, 2019|url-status=live }}</ref> born October 13, 1989), also known by her initials '''AOC''', is an American politician serving as the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. Representative]] for [[New York's 14th congressional district]]. The district includes the eastern part of [[the Bronx]], portions of north-central [[Queens]], and [[Rikers Island]] in [[New York City]]. She is a member of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]]. |
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Ocasio-Cortez drew national recognition when she won the Democratic Party's [[2018 New York's 14th congressional district election#Primary election|primary election]] for New York's 14th congressional district on June 26, 2018. She defeated [[Democratic Caucus Chairman of the United States House of Representatives|Democratic Caucus Chair]] [[Joe Crowley]], a 10-term incumbent, in what was widely seen as the biggest [[Upset (competition)|upset]] victory in the [[2018 United States elections|2018 midterm election primaries]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Tim |last=Murphy |url-status=live |date=June 26, 2018 |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-primary-new-york/ |title=A progressive insurgent just pulled off the biggest Democratic primary upset in years |work=Mother Jones |access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627041545/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-primary-new-york/ |archive-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref><ref name="Gregory Krieg CNN">{{cite news |first=Gregory |last=Krieg |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-new-york-14-primary/index.html |title=A 28-year-old Democratic Socialist just ousted a powerful, 10-term congressman in New York |publisher=CNN |location=Atlanta, Georgia |date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=June 27, 2018 |quote=in the most shocking upset of a rollicking political season |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627022605/https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-new-york-14-primary/index.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/takeaways-tuesday-primaries-crowley/index.html |title=The biggest night so far for progressives and other takeaways from Tuesday night's primaries |first1=Dan |last1=Merica |first2=Eric |last2=Bradner |date=June 27, 2018 |publisher=CNN |access-date=June 27, 2018 |quote=It was the most shocking result of 2018's political season so far{{nbsp}}... |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627163014/https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/27/politics/takeaways-tuesday-primaries-crowley/index.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live }}</ref> She defeated [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] opponent Anthony Pappas in the November 6, 2018 general election. |
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Taking office at age 29, Ocasio-Cortez is the youngest woman ever to serve in the United States Congress.<ref name="GrigoryanSuetzl190" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/politics/ocasio-cortez-youngest-woman-ever/index.html |title=Ocasio-Cortez to be youngest woman ever elected to Congress |accessdate=November 6, 2018 |publisher=CNN |date=November 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107064936/https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/06/politics/ocasio-cortez-youngest-woman-ever/index.html|archive-date=November 7, 2018|url-status=live |first=Eli |last=Watkins}}</ref> She has been noted for her substantial [[social media]] presence relative to her fellow members of Congress.<ref name="axiosnov" /> Ocasio-Cortez attended [[Boston University]], where she [[Double majors in the United States|double-majored]] in [[international relations]] and [[economics]], graduating ''[[Latin honors#Distinctions|cum laude]]'' in 2011.<ref name="snopes cum laude"/> She was previously an activist and worked as a waitress and bartender before running for Congress in 2018. |
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Ocasio-Cortez is among the first female members of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]] elected to serve in Congress.<ref name="vox_2018-06-27" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://inthesetimes.com/article/21570/socialists-house-midterms-victor-berger-ocasio-cortez-tlaib |title=Socialists in the House: A 100-Year History from Victor Berger to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |last=Isserman |first=Maurice |date=November 8, 2018 |website=In These Times |language=en-US |access-date=May 11, 2018}}</ref> She advocates a [[Progressivism in the United States|progressive]] platform that includes [[Medicare for All]], a federal [[jobs guarantee]], the [[Green New Deal]] and abolishing the [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kurtzleben |first=Danielle |date=February 7, 2019 |title=Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Releases Green New Deal Outline |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/02/07/691997301/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-releases-green-new-deal-outline |access-date=April 3, 2020 |website=NPR.org |language=en}}</ref> |
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==Early life== |
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Ocasio-Cortez was born into a [[Catholic]] family in [[the Bronx]] borough of [[New York City]] on October 13, 1989, the daughter of Blanca Ocasio-Cortez (''née'' Cortez) and Sergio Ocasio.<ref>{{cite web |title=Meet Alexandria |url=https://ocasio2018.com/about |publisher=Ocasio 2018 |access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627143050/https://www.ocasio2018.com/about |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=dead}}</ref> She has a younger brother named Gabriel.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a26251021/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-brother-gabriel/ |title=Who Is Alexandria Ocasio Cortez's Brother Gabriel? He's an Artist and Musician |last=Igoe |first=Katherine J. |date=February 8, 2019 |website=Marie Claire|access-date=February 10, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190212130932/https://www.marieclaire.com/politics/a26251021/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-brother-gabriel/|archive-date=February 12, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Her father was born in the Bronx to a [[Puerto Ricans|Puerto Rican]] family and became an [[architect]]; her mother was born in Puerto Rico.<ref name="Vivian Wang Giant Slayer">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html |title=Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? A Democratic Giant Slayer |last=Wang |first=Vivian |date=June 27, 2018|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627090426/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html|archive-date=June 27, 2018|url-status=live |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref><ref name="nyt-profile">{{cite news |first1=Andy |last1=Newman |first2=Vivian |last2=Wang |first3=Luis |last3=Ferré-Sadurní |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Emerges as a Political Star |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bio-profile.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |location=New York City |date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628072729/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bio-profile.html |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=Goldmacher>{{cite news |issn=0362-4331 |last=Goldmacher |first=Shane |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Jewish, Too? |work=The New York Times |accessdate=February 9, 2019 |date=December 10, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-jewish.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119163841/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/10/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-jewish.html|archive-date=January 19, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez lived with her family in an apartment in the Bronx neighborhood of [[Parkchester, Bronx|Parkchester]]<ref name="nyt-profile" /> until she was five, when the family moved to a house in suburban [[Yorktown Heights, New York|Yorktown Heights]].<ref name="nyt-profile" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2018-07-03/rising-star-democrat-ocasio-cortez-defends-bronx-roots |agency=AP |first=Stephen |last=Groves |title=Rising Political Star Ocasio-Cortez Defends Bronx Roots |date=July 3, 2018 |work=U.S. News & World Report |accessdate=December 13, 2019}}</ref> |
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Ocasio-Cortez attended [[Yorktown High School (New York)|Yorktown High School]], graduating in 2007.<ref name="lohud.com 2018">{{cite web |first=Isabel |last=Keane |title=Bronx political star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez commuted to Yorktown for high school |publisher=lohud.com |date=June 28, 2018 |url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/yorktown/2018/06/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-yorktown/743485002/ | access-date=December 1, 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181201052811/https://www.lohud.com/story/news/local/westchester/yorktown/2018/06/28/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-yorktown/743485002/ | archive-date=December 1, 2018 | url-status=live}}</ref> In high school and college, Ocasio-Cortez went by the name of "Sandy Ocasio".<ref name="Yglesias">{{cite web |last1=Yglesias |first1=Matthew |title=Conservatives' Obsession With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's High School, Explained |url=https://www.vox.com/2019/1/4/18167175/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-sandy-yorktown-high-school |website=Vox |publisher=Vox Media |accessdate=November 15, 2019 |date=January 4, 2019 |
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|quote=There’s nothing in any way extraordinary about the yearbook photos, though they do establish that she went by “Sandy Ocasio” at the time.}}</ref> She came in second in the [[microbiology]] category of the [[Intel International Science and Engineering Fair]] with a research project on the effect of [[antioxidant]]s on the lifespan of the [[nematode]] ''[[C. elegans]]''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Intel ISEF Alumna Headed to Capitol Hill |url=https://www.societyforscience.org/content/ssp-blog/intel-isef-alumna-headed-capitol-hill |publisher=Society for Science & the Public |accessdate=December 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181130232735/https://www.societyforscience.org/content/ssp-blog/intel-isef-alumna-headed-capitol-hill|archive-date=November 30, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=King |first1=Georgia Frances |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a science-fair prize for research involving free radicals |date=December 1, 2018 |url=https://qz.com/1481551/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-won-a-2007-isef-science-fair-prize-for-her-microbiology-research/ |work=Quartz |language=en}}</ref> In a show of appreciation for her efforts, the [[MIT Lincoln Laboratory]] named a small [[asteroid]] after her: [[23238 Ocasio-Cortez]].<ref name="Malloy Rising">{{cite news |last=Malloy |first=Daniel |title=This Berniecrat Aims to Unseat a Queens Power Broker |newspaper=[[Ozy (magazine)|Ozy]] |date=June 23, 2018 |url=https://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/this-berniecrat-aims-to-unseat-a-queens-power-broker/83063 |accessdate=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627115704/https://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/this-berniecrat-aims-to-unseat-a-queens-power-broker/83063 |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="NASA">{{cite web |url=https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Ocasio-Cortez |date=August 30, 2007 |title=JPL Small-Body Database Browser |last=Chamberlin |first=Alan |access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180809144242/https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=Ocasio-Cortez;old=0;orb=0;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#discovery |archive-date=August 9, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> In high school, she took part in the [[National Hispanic Institute]]'s [[Lorenzo de Zavala]] (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session. She later became the LDZ Secretary of State while she attended [[Boston University]]. Ocasio-Cortez had a [[National Hispanic Institute#John F. Lopez Fellowship (JFL)|John F. Lopez Fellowship]].<ref name="NHI Person of the Year">{{Cite news |url=http://www.nhimagazine.com/2017/12/31/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-named-2017-nhi-person-year/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez named 2017 NHI Person of the Year |date=December 31, 2017 |work=NHI Magazine |access-date=July 3, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180703180341/http://www.nhimagazine.com/2017/12/31/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-named-2017-nhi-person-year/ |archive-date=July 3, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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After graduating from high school, Ocasio-Cortez enrolled at [[Boston University]]. Her father died of [[lung cancer]] in 2008 during her second year,<ref>{{Cite news |first1=Mark |last1=Lungariello |first2=Jonathan |last2=Bandler |url=https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/02/ocasio-cortez-westchester/751333002/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez takes heat for growing up in Westchester |publisher=lohud.com |access-date=September 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127000853/https://www.lohud.com/story/news/politics/2018/07/02/ocasio-cortez-westchester/751333002/|archive-date=January 27, 2019|url-status=live |date=July 4, 2018}}</ref><ref name="InterceptInteview">{{cite web |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/06/27/an-interview-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-young-democratic-socialist-who-just-shocked-the-establishment/ |title=An Interview With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Young Democratic Socialist Who Just Shocked the Establishment |last=Scahill |first=Jeremy |authorlink=Jeremy Scahill |date=June 27, 2018 |website=The Intercept|access-date=September 4, 2018 |quote=One of the big decisions though was that I was at Standing Rock in December 2016...The day after I got off camp, I was contacted by a progressive organization, Brand New Congress, which was seeking to mount non-corporate candidates in the 2018 midterm.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180903131318/https://theintercept.com/2018/06/27/an-interview-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-young-democratic-socialist-who-just-shocked-the-establishment/|archive-date=September 3, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and Ocasio-Cortez became involved in a lengthy [[probate]] battle to settle his estate. She has said that the experience helped her learn "first-hand how attorneys appointed by the court to administer an estate can enrich themselves at the expense of the families struggling to make sense of the bureaucracy."<ref name="Looks to dethrone">{{cite news |first1=Aida |last1=Chavez |first2=Ryan |last2=Grim |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/05/22/joseph-crowley-alexandra-ocasio-cortez-new-york-primary/ |title=A Primary Against the Machine: a Bronx Activist Looks to Dethrone Joseph Crowley, The King of Queens |work=[[The Intercept]] |publisher=[[First Look Media]] |location=New York City |date=May 22, 2018 |accessdate=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627062529/https://theintercept.com/2018/05/22/joseph-crowley-alexandra-ocasio-cortez-new-york-primary/ |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> During college, Ocasio-Cortez served as an intern for U.S. Senator [[Ted Kennedy]], in his section on [[foreign affairs]] and [[ immigration | immigration issues]].<ref name=Mic>{{Cite news |url=https://www.mic.com/articles/187994/meet-the-young-progressive-latina-trying-to-oust-one-of-the-most-powerful-democrats-in-the-house |title=Meet the young progressive Latina trying to oust one of the most powerful Democrats in the House |last=Joyce |first=A.P. |date=February 28, 2018 |work=[[Mic (media company)|Mic.com]]|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612212215/https://mic.com/articles/187994/meet-the-young-progressive-latina-trying-to-oust-one-of-the-most-powerful-democrats-in-the-house|archive-date=June 12, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She recalled, "I was the only Spanish speaker, and as a result, as basically a kid—a 19-, 20-year-old kid—whenever a frantic call would come into the office because someone is looking for their husband because they have been snatched off the street by [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement|ICE]], I was the one that had to pick up that phone. I was the one that had to help that person navigate that system."<ref name=Mic/> Ocasio-Cortez graduated from Boston University in 2011 with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] degree in both [[international relations]] and [[economics]].<ref name="snopes cum laude">{{cite web |title=Did U.S. Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Graduate Cum Laude from Boston University? |url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ocasio-cortez-resume/ |first=Dan |last=Evon |date=April 3, 2019 |website=Snopes |accessdate=August 10, 2020}}</ref><ref name="NHI Person of the Year" /><ref>{{cite web |last1=Cepeda |first1=Esther J. |title=Despite Her Haters, Youth Is Not Wasted on Ocasio-Cortez |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/suburbs/post-tribune/opinion/ct-ptb-cepeda-column-st-0110-story.html |website=Chicago Tribune |accessdate=July 20, 2020 |date=January 9, 2019 |quote=There will always be people claiming she's 'unqualified,' even though Ocasio-Cortez has an undergraduate degree in international relations with a minor in economics and has worked as an educator, a publisher and a community organizer.}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Boston University Commencement 2011 |page=21 |url=https://www.bu.edu/commencement/files/2012/12/2011Redbook.pdf |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123135730/http://www.bu.edu/commencement/files/2012/12/2011Redbook.pdf |archivedate=November 23, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Tom |last=Embury-Dennis |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alexandria-ocasiocortez-democrats-election-new-york-bronx-queens-socialist-midterms-joe-crowley-a8419111.html |title=Everything you need to know about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old socialist hailed as the 'future of the Democratic Party' |newspaper=[[The Independent]] |publisher=Independent Print Ltd. |location=London, England |date=June 27, 2018 |accessdate=August 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628085251/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/alexandria-ocasiocortez-democrats-election-new-york-bronx-queens-socialist-midterms-joe-crowley-a8419111.html |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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==Early career== |
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After college, Ocasio-Cortez moved back to the Bronx and took a job as a bartender and waitress to help her mother—a house cleaner and school bus driver—fight [[foreclosure]] of their home.<ref name="Huffpo - 5 reasons">{{Cite news |first=Willa |last=Frej |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-things-to-know_n_5b334b41e4b0cb56051d6081 |title=5 Reasons Why Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Stands Out |website=[[HuffPost]] |publisher=[[Huffington Post Media Group]] |location=New York City |date=June 27, 2018 |access-date=July 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717195620/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-things-to-know_us_5b334b41e4b0cb56051d6081 |archive-date=July 17, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=GuardianWaitress>{{cite news |first=Lauren |last=Gambino |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-who-is-she-democrats-new-york-life-career-policies |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: who is the new progressive star of the Democrats? |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |location=London, England |date=June 27, 2018 |accessdate=August 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180702140705/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-who-is-she-democrats-new-york-life-career-policies |archive-date=July 2, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> She later launched Brook Avenue Press, a now-defunct publishing firm for books that portrayed the Bronx in a positive light.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/diverse-group-startups-thriving-city-sponsored-sunshine-bronx-business-incubator-hunts-point-article-1.1115489 |title=Diverse group of startups thriving at city-sponsored Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator in Hunts Point |last=Beekman |first=Daniel |work=[[New York Daily News]] |date=July 17, 2012|access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629022152/http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/bronx/diverse-group-startups-thriving-city-sponsored-sunshine-bronx-business-incubator-hunts-point-article-1.1115489 |archive-date=June 29, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/company-founded-by-ocasio-cortez-in-2012-still-owes-1870-in-taxes |first1=Isabel |last1=Vincent |first2=Melissa |last2=Klein |title=Company founded by Ocasio-Cortez in 2012 still owes $1,870 in taxes |date=March 10, 2019 |website=New York Post |language=en-US|access-date=September 25, 2019}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez also worked for the nonprofit [[National Hispanic Institute]].<ref name="NHI Person of the Year" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nationalhispanicinstitute.org/cws/ |title=Collegiate World Series – The National Hispanic Institute|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108045848/https://www.nationalhispanicinstitute.org/cws/|archive-date=January 8, 2019|url-status=dead|access-date=January 7, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |work=[[National Post]] |first=David |last=Weigel |authorlink=David Weigel |url=https://nationalpost.com/news/world/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-28-takes-out-10-term-congressman-in-new-yorks-democratic-primary |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, takes out 10-term congressman in New York's Democratic primary |date=June 27, 2018 |accessdate=December 13, 2019}}</ref> |
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During the 2016 [[Primary election|primary]], Ocasio-Cortez worked as an organizer for [[Bernie Sanders 2016 presidential campaign|Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign]].<ref name="NYT" /> After the general election, she traveled across America by car, visiting places such as [[Flint, Michigan|Flint]], [[Michigan]], and [[Standing Rock Indian Reservation]] in North Dakota, and speaking to people affected by the [[Flint water crisis]] and the [[Dakota Access Pipeline protests|Dakota Access Pipeline]].<ref>{{Cite news |first=Tim |last=Murphy |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-upset-joe-crowley-dsa-brand-new-congress-1/ |title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez pulled off the year's biggest political upset |work=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |access-date=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629022429/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-upset-joe-crowley-dsa-brand-new-congress-1/ |archive-date=June 29, 2018 |url-status=live |date=June 27, 2018}}</ref> In an interview she recalled her December 2016 visit to Standing Rock as a tipping point, saying that before that, she had believed that the only way to run for office effectively was to have access to wealth, social influence, and power. But her visit to [[North Dakota]], where she saw others "putting their whole lives and everything that they had on the line for the protection of their community", inspired her to begin to work for her own community.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Piaella |first1=Gabriella |title=The 28-Year-Old at the Center of One of This Year's Most Exciting Primaries |date=June 25, 2018 |url=https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview.html |website=[[The Cut (website)|The Cut]] |publisher=[[New York Media]] |location=New York City |accessdate=June 29, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628013441/https://www.thecut.com/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview.html |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> One day after she visited North Dakota, she got a phone call from [[Brand New Congress]], which was recruiting progressive candidates (her brother had nominated her soon after Election Day 2016).<ref name="Brother">{{Cite web |url=https://www.thisisinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-biography-2019-1 |title=The Truth about Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The inside story of how, in just one year, Sandy the bartender became a lawmaker who triggers both parties |last=Relman |first=Eliza |work=The Insider |quote=Soon after Election Day in 2016, Ocasio-Cortez's younger brother, Gabriel, sent her name to Brand New Congress, a Bernie Sanders-inspired group recruiting candidates for the House and Senate. When she got home from her North Dakota trip, a leader of BNC called her out of the blue with an ask: Will you run for US Congress in New York's 14th district? |date=January 6, 2019 |accessdate=March 23, 2019}}</ref> |
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==2018 campaign== |
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[[File:AOC for Congress 2018 logo.svg|thumb|upright|Ocasio-Cortez's congressional campaign logo was inspired by "revolutionary posters and visuals from the past."]] |
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Ocasio-Cortez began her campaign in April<ref name="GrigoryanSuetzl190"/> while waiting tables and tending bar at Flats Fix, a [[Taco stand|taqueria]] in New York City's [[Union Square, Manhattan|Union Square]].<ref name="Manriquez 2018">{{cite news |last=Manriquez |first=Pablo |title=The Gospel of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |newspaper=Roll Call |date=December 14, 2018 |url=https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-change-congress | access-date=January 27, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127152848/https://www.rollcall.com/news/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-change-congress | archive-date=January 27, 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref> "For 80 percent of this campaign, I operated out of a paper grocery bag hidden behind that bar," she told ''[[Bon Appétit]]''.<ref name="Cadigan">{{cite web |last=Cadigan |first=Hilary |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Learned Her Most Important Lessons from Restaurants |website=Bon Appetit |url=https://www.bonappetit.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lessons-from-restaurants |date=November 7, 2018 |accessdate=January 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127152946/https://www.bonappetit.com/story/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lessons-from-restaurants |archive-date=January 27, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> She was the first person since 2004 to challenge [[Joe Crowley]], the [[Democratic Caucus Chairman of the United States House of Representatives|Democratic Caucus Chair]], in the primary. She faced a financial disadvantage, saying, "You can't really beat big money with more money. You have to beat them with a totally different game."<ref>{{cite web |first1=John |last1=Ferguson |accessdate=November 25, 2019 |title=Talented US Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tipped to light up White House |url=https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politics/talented-democrat-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-14080017 |date=March 3, 2019 |website=dailyrecord}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |first1=Anna |last1=Leigh |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Political Headliner |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N7mzDwAAQBAJ |publisher=Lerner Publishing Group |date=2020 |isbn=978-1-5415-7747-3 |via=Google Books}}</ref><ref name="Looks to dethrone"/> Ocasio-Cortez's campaign undertook [[grassroots]] mobilization and did not take donations from corporations.<ref name="GrigoryanSuetzl190"/> Her campaign posters' designs were said to have taken inspiration from "revolutionary posters and visuals from the past."<ref name="Budds 2018">{{cite news |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/2/17519414/ocasio-cortez-campaign-design-campaign-posters-tandem-branding |title=The brilliance of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's bold campaign design |last=Budds |first=Diana |date=July 2, 2018 |website=Vox|access-date=January 27, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127152854/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/7/2/17519414/ocasio-cortez-campaign-design-campaign-posters-tandem-branding|archive-date=January 27, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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On June 15, the candidates' only face-to-face encounter during the campaign occurred on a local political talk show, ''[[Inside City Hall]]''. The format was a joint interview conducted by [[Errol Louis]], which [[NY1]] characterized as a debate.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2018/06/16/democratic-primary-debate--crowley-vs--ocasio-cortez--part-1 |title=Democratic Primary Debate: Crowley vs. Ocasio-Cortez |first=Errol |last=Lewis |date=June 16, 2018|access-date=August 20, 2018 |publisher=NY 1 Inside City Hall|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820234918/http://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/inside-city-hall/2018/06/16/democratic-primary-debate--crowley-vs--ocasio-cortez--part-1|archive-date=August 20, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> On June 18, a debate in the Bronx was scheduled, but Crowley did not participate. He sent former [[New York City Council]] member [[Annabel Palma]] in his place.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/news-politics/joe-crowley-sends-annabel-palma-to-debate-in-his-place |title=Crowley sends 'worst NYC lawmaker' to debate in his place |first=Rebecca |last=Lewis |date=June 19, 2018 |access-date=August 20, 2018 |publisher=City and State NY |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820204944/https://www.cityandstateny.com/articles/politics/news-politics/joe-crowley-sends-annabel-palma-to-debate-in-his-place |archive-date=August 20, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |author=The New York Times Editorial Board |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/opinion/joseph-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html |title=If You Want to Be Speaker, Mr. Crowley, Don't Take Voters for Granted |date=June 19, 2018|access-date=August 20, 2018 |work=The New York Times|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180816042809/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/opinion/joseph-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez.html|archive-date=August 16, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/06/ocasio-cortez-beat-crowley-and-old-school-nyc-politics.html |date=June 27, 2018 |title=Ocasio-Cortez Not Only Beat Crowley – She Beat Old-School New York Politics |last=Freedlander |first=David |publisher=Daily Intelligencer |access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628011232/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/ocasio-cortez-beat-crowley-and-old-school-nyc-politics.html |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===Endorsements=== |
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Ocasio-Cortez was endorsed by progressive and civil rights organizations such as [[MoveOn]],<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/rep-joe-crowley-defeated-in-democratic-primary-upset-by-newcomer-alexandria-ocasio-cortez |title=Rep. Joe Crowley defeated in Democratic primary upset by newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |last=Chamberlain |first=Samuel |date=June 26, 2018 |publisher=[[Fox News Channel]] | access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627052138/http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06/26/rep-joe-crowley-defeated-in-democratic-primary-upset.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Black Lives Matter]],<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fights-power/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Fights the Power |last=Raina |first=Lipsitz |date=June 22, 2018 |work=[[The Nation]]|access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627050241/https://www.thenation.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fights-power/ |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Democracy for America]],<ref name="NYT" /> and by actress and first-time candidate [[Cynthia Nixon]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://nypost.com/2019/09/26/cynthia-nixon-endorses-bronx-principal-in-bid-to-oust-rep-eliot-engel/ |title=Cynthia Nixon endorses Bronx principal in bid to oust Rep. Eliot Engel |first=Carl |last=Campanile |date=September 26, 2019}}</ref> Nixon, like Ocasio-Cortez, also challenged a longtime incumbent: she ran against Democratic Governor [[Andrew Cuomo]] in the [[2018 New York gubernatorial election]]<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.mic.com/articles/189991/insurgent-progressive-candidates-cynthia-nixon-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rally-together |title=Insurgent progressive candidates Cynthia Nixon and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez rally togehter |last=Joyce |first=A.P. |date=June 26, 2018 |publisher=Mic|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180626172700/https://mic.com/articles/189991/insurgent-progressive-candidates-cynthia-nixon-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-rally-together|archive-date=June 26, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> but lost by 66% to 34%.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/09/13/us/elections/results-new-york-primary-elections.html |title=New York Primary Election Results |first1=Sarah |last1=Almukhtar |first2=Matthew |last2=Bloch |first3=Jasmine C. |last3=Lee |date=September 13, 2018 |newspaper=The New York Times}}</ref> |
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Governor Cuomo endorsed Crowley, as did both of New York's U.S. Senators, [[Chuck Schumer]] and [[Kirsten Gillibrand]], as well as [[Mayor of New York City|New York City Mayor]] [[Bill de Blasio]], 11 U.S. Representatives, 31 local elected officials, 31 trade unions, and groups such as the [[Sierra Club]], [[Planned Parenthood]], the [[Working Families Party]], [[NARAL Pro-Choice America]], and [[Everytown for Gun Safety|Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America]], among others.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://crowleyforcongress.com/?page_id=467 |title=Endorsements: Joe Crowley for Congress |publisher=Crowley for Congress |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180614071656/http://crowleyforcongress.com/?page_id=467 |archive-date=June 14, 2018 |url-status=dead |access-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref>{{better source|date=June 2019}} California representative [[Ro Khanna]], a [[Justice Democrat]] like Ocasio-Cortez,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gray |first1=Briahna |last2=Grim |first2=Ryan |title=Under Pressure From Progressives, Rep. Ro Khanna Endorses Both Democrats in Contentious New York Primary |url=https://theintercept.com/2018/06/13/ro-khanna-joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |website=The Intercept |accessdate=July 1, 2018 |date=June 13, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180616192835/https://theintercept.com/2018/06/13/ro-khanna-joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |archive-date=June 16, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="GrigoryanSuetzl190"/> initially endorsed [[Joe Crowley]] but later endorsed Ocasio-Cortez in an unusual dual endorsement.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hagen |first=Lisa |date=June 26, 2018 |title=Political stunner! Crowley knocked off by millennial challenger |publisher=The Hill |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/394318-crowley-loses-in-new-york-dem-primary |url-status=live |access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629050054/http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/394318-crowley-loses-in-new-york-dem-primary |archive-date=June 29, 2018}}</ref> |
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===Primary election=== |
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[[File:Kerri Evelyn Harris and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 1.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Ocasio-Cortez with [[Kerri Evelyn Harris]]]] |
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On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez received 57.13% of the vote (15,897) to Joe Crowley's 42.5% (11,761), defeating the 10-term incumbent by almost 15 percentage points.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/26/us/elections/results-new-york-primary-elections.html |title=New York State Primary Election Results |date=June 28, 2017 |website=The New York Times |accessdate=July 20, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180722075921/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/06/26/us/elections/results-new-york-primary-elections.html |archive-date=July 22, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Her win, and Crowley's defeat, came as a shock to many political commentators and analysts and immediately garnered nationwide attention. ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' called her victory "the biggest [[Upset (competition)|upset]] of the 2018 elections so far";<ref>{{cite news |url=https://time.com/5322905/joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Pulled Off the Biggest Upset of 2018 |last=Elliott |first=Philip |date=June 26, 2018 |newspaper=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |accessdate=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627201954/http://time.com/5322905/joe-crowley-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[CNN]] made a similar statement.<ref name="Gregory Krieg CNN" /> ''[[The New York Times]]'' described Crowley's loss as "a shocking primary defeat on Tuesday, the most significant loss for a Democratic incumbent in more than a decade, and one that will reverberate across the party and the country".<ref name="NYT">{{cite news |last1=Goldmacher |first1=Shane |last2=Martin |first2=Jonathan |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Defeats Joseph Crowley in Major Democratic House Upset |work=The New York Times |date=June 26, 2018 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/nyregion/joseph-crowley-ocasio-cortez-democratic-primary.html |accessdate=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627022115/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/26/nyregion/joseph-crowley-ocasio-cortez-democratic-primary.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> ''[[The Guardian]]'' called it "one of the biggest upsets in recent American political history".<ref>{{cite news |last=Jacobs |first=Ben |title=Democrats see major upset as socialist beats top-ranking US congressman |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |date=June 26, 2018 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/26/democrats-primaries-upset-joe-crowley-alexandria-osacio-cortez |accessdate=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627043320/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jun/26/democrats-primaries-upset-joe-crowley-alexandria-osacio-cortez |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> She was outspent by a margin of 18 to 1 ($1.5 million to $83,000) but won the endorsement of some influential groups on the party's [[Far-left politics|far left]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Deepti |last=Hajela |url=https://apnews.com/45eb9af59317402699b23c4826a8192c |title=Political novice Ocasio-Cortez scores for progressives in NY |agency=Associated Press |access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627045914/https://apnews.com/45eb9af59317402699b23c4826a8192c |date=June 27, 2018 |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Merriam-Webster]] reported that searches for the word "socialism" spiked 1,500% after her victory.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/news-trend-watch/ocasio-cortez-sparks-socialism-lookups-20180627 |title=Ocasio-Cortez Sparks 'Socialism' Lookups Searches jump over 1500% after victory |date=June 27, 2018 |publisher=Merriam-Webster |access-date=June 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701030500/https://www.merriam-webster.com/news-trend-watch/ocasio-cortez-sparks-socialism-lookups-20180627 |archive-date=July 1, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Crowley conceded defeat on election night,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44625617 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Millennial beats veteran Democrat |date=June 26, 2018 |publisher=BBC | access-date=June 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701062032/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44625617 |archive-date=July 1, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> but did not telephone Ocasio-Cortez that night to congratulate her, fueling short-lived speculation that he intended to run against her in the general election.<ref name="hill-third-party">{{cite news |title=Ocasio-Cortez accuses defeated Dem of mounting third-party challenge |first=Morgan |last=Gstalter |date=July 12, 2018 |publisher=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/396667-ocasio-cortez-accuses-defeated-dem-of-mounting-third-party-challenge |quote=Crowley stated on live TV that he would absolutely support my candidacy, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Thursday. Instead, he's stood me up for all 3 scheduled concession calls... Numerous phone calls have been set up but Ocasio-Cortez's aides have failed to follow through with providing a phone number, the aide [to Crowley] said.}}</ref> |
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[[Bernie Sanders]] and [[Noam Chomsky]] congratulated her.<ref name="Seitz">{{cite news |first=Alex |last=Seitz-Wald |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/rep-joe-crowley-loses-28-year-old-newcomer-alexandria-ocasio-n886851 |title=High-ranking Democrat ousted in stunning primary loss to newcomer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |publisher=[[NBC News]] |date=June 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627143539/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/elections/rep-joe-crowley-loses-28-year-old-newcomer-alexandria-ocasio-n886851 |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite interview |last=Chomsky |first=Noam |interviewer=Amy Goodman |title=Noam Chomsky on Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's "Spectacular" Victory & Growing Split in Democratic Party |url=https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/27/noam_chomsky_on_alexandria_ocasio_cortezs |website=Democracy Now |accessdate=July 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180730205030/https://www.democracynow.org/2018/7/27/noam_chomsky_on_alexandria_ocasio_cortezs |date=July 27, 2018 |archive-date=July 30, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Several commentators noted the similarities between Ocasio-Cortez's victory over Crowley and [[Dave Brat]]'s [[Tea Party movement]]-supported 2014 victory over House Majority Leader [[Eric Cantor]] in the Republican primary for [[Virginia's 7th congressional district]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-beats-joe-crowley-in-stunning-upset.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Ousts Joe Crowley, a Top House Democrat, in Stunning Upset |last=Kilgore |first=Ed |date=June 26, 2018 |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |access-date=June 27, 2018 |quote=In a shocker that is already being compared to the 2014 primary loss by then–House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus (the fourth-ranking leadership position among House Democrats), ten-term veteran Joe Crowley has been upset by 28-year-old first-time candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the Bronx-Queens 14th congressional district. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627085949/http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-beats-joe-crowley-in-stunning-upset.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Brian Stelter saw upset">{{Cite news |url=https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/27/media/ocasio-intercept-primary/index.html |title=Progressive media saw the Ocasio-Cortez upset coming |last=Stelter |first=Brian |date=June 27, 2018 |publisher=CNN |access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627202407/https://money.cnn.com/2018/06/27/media/ocasio-intercept-primary/index.html |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Like Crowley, [[Eric Cantor|Cantor]] was a high-ranking member in his party's caucus.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/eric-cantor-republicans-religion_n_5482432 |title=With Eric Cantor Defeat, Congressional Republicans Lose Only Non-Christian |last=Lachman |first=Samantha |date=June 11, 2014 |publisher=HuffPost |access-date=June 28, 2018 |quote=Cantor [was] the second-ranking House Republican and highest-ranking Jewish member. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306092800/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/10/eric-cantor-republicans-religion_n_5482432.html |archive-date=March 6, 2017 |url-status=live}}</ref> After her primary win, Ocasio-Cortez endorsed several progressive primary challengers to Democratic incumbents nationwide,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/the-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-effect/ |title=The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Effect The Democratic party's new rock star is storming the country on behalf of insurgent populists |last=Nichols |first=John |date=August 15, 2018 |website=The Nation|access-date=August 22, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180823074146/https://www.thenation.com/article/the-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-effect/|archive-date=August 23, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> capitalizing on her fame and spending her political capital in a manner unusual even for unexpected primary winners.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/05/ocasio-cortez-democratic-primaries-establishment-2018-694789 |title='You can beat the establishment': Ocasio-Cortez crashes Democratic primaries The New York insurgent is stepping on toes as she rallies progressive candidates across the country |last=Nahmias |first=Laura |date=July 5, 2018 |newspaper=Politico |access-date=July 7, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180707155215/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/05/ocasio-cortez-democratic-primaries-establishment-2018-694789 |archive-date=July 7, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Without campaigning for it, Ocasio-Cortez won the [[Reform Party of the United States of America|Reform Party]] primary as a [[write-in candidate]] in a neighboring congressional district, [[New York's 15th congressional district|New York's 15th]], with a total vote count of nine, highest among all 22 write-in candidates. She declined the nomination.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-primary-district-running/story?id=56499055 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins primary in district she was not running in |last=Verhovek |first=John |date=July 11, 2018 |publisher=ABC News |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711054004/https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-primary-district-running/story?id=56499055 |archive-date=July 11, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=July 12, 2018}}</ref><ref name="NB3ct">{{Cite news |url=https://www.vox.com/2018/7/11/17560252/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-house-primary-new-york-15th-congressional-district-reform-party |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez just won a House primary as a write-in – for a district she wasn't intending to run in |last=Nilsen |first=Ella |date=July 11, 2018 |work=Vox |access-date=July 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711180222/https://www.vox.com/2018/7/11/17560252/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-house-primary-new-york-15th-congressional-district-reform-party |archive-date=July 11, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===General election=== |
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Ocasio-Cortez faced Republican nominee Anthony Pappas in the November 6 general election.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thenationalherald.com/204443/prof-anthony-pappas-running-for-congress/ |title=Prof. Anthony Pappas Running for Congress |last=Sakellis |first=Eleni |date=June 17, 2018 |newspaper=The National Herald |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628233512/https://www.thenationalherald.com/204443/prof-anthony-pappas-running-for-congress/ |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=June 28, 2018}}</ref> Pappas, who lives in [[Astoria, Queens|Astoria]], is an economics professor at [[St. John's University (New York City)|St. John's University]]. According to the ''[[New York Post]]'', Pappas did not actively campaign. The ''Post'' wrote that "Pappas' bid was a long shot," since the 14th has a [[Cook Partisan Voting Index]] of D+29, making it the sixth most Democratic district in [[New York City]]. Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans by almost six to one.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://nypost.com/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-will-run-against-st-johns-professor/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez will run against St. John's professor |last=Hicks |first=Nolan |date=June 27, 2018 |newspaper=New York Post |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627212046/https://nypost.com/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-will-run-against-st-johns-professor/ |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=June 28, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.stjohns.edu/academics/bio/anthony-pappas-phd |title=Anthony Pappas, PhD |publisher=St. John's University |access-date=June 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628205011/https://www.stjohns.edu/academics/bio/anthony-pappas-phd|archive-date=June 28, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first1=Karen |last1=Matthews |first2=Deepti |last2=Hajela |date=June 28, 2018 |url=https://apnews.com/b4ff8a4a6d314955a41dbf0334518d62/Shock,-then-ambition:-Ocasio-Cortez-hopes-to-shake-up-House |title=Shock, then ambition: Ocasio-Cortez hopes to shake up House |agency=Associated Press |access-date=June 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628205019/https://www.apnews.com/b4ff8a4a6d314955a41dbf0334518d62/Shock,-then-ambition:-Ocasio-Cortez-hopes-to-shake-up-House |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> The district and its predecessors have been in Democratic hands for all but two years since 1923 and without interruption since 1949. |
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Ocasio-Cortez was endorsed by various politically [[Progressivism in the United States#Progressivism in the 21st century|progressive]] organizations and figures, including former President [[Barack Obama]] and U.S. Senator [[Bernie Sanders]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/bernie-sanders-weighs-in-on-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-s-victory-1265337411768 |first=Andrea |last=Mitchell |authorlink=Andrea Mitchell |title=Bernie Sanders weighs in on Ocasio-Cortez's victory |publisher=[[MSNBC]] |date=June 27, 2018 |accessdate=August 10, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180710113543/https://www.msnbc.com/andrea-mitchell-reports/watch/bernie-sanders-weighs-in-on-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-s-victory-1265337411768 |archive-date=July 10, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/409294-obama-announces-endorsement-for-ocasio-cortez |title=Obama announces endorsement for Ocasio-Cortez |last=Wise |first=Justin |date=October 1, 2018 |work=The Hill|access-date=November 7, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107224857/https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/409294-obama-announces-endorsement-for-ocasio-cortez|archive-date=November 7, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She spoke at the [[Netroots Nation]] conference in August 2018, and was called "the undisputed star of the convention".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://time.com/5359100/democrats-netroots/ |title=The Democratic Split isn't Left vs. Center. It's Old vs. New |last=Alter |first=Charlotte |date=August 6, 2018 |work=Time|access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180807091224/http://time.com/5359100/democrats-netroots/|archive-date=August 7, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Crowley also remained on the ballot, as the nominee of the [[Working Families Party]] (WFP) and the [[Women's Equality Party (New York)|Women's Equality Party]] (WEP). Neither Crowley nor the WFP party actively campaigned, with both having endorsed Ocasio-Cortez after her Democratic primary victory.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-crowley-working-families-party-20180712-story.html |title=Ocasio-Cortez rips Crowley for not giving up Working Families Party line |last=Lovett |first=Kenneth |date=July 12, 2018 |newspaper=New York Daily News |location=New York |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720194943/http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-crowley-working-families-party-20180712-story.html |archive-date=July 20, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=July 20, 2018}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez described the WEP, which Governor Cuomo created ahead of the [[2014 New York gubernatorial election]], as a cynical, centrist group that endorsed male incumbents over female challengers like her and Nixon.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/07/19/cynthia-nixon-and-ocasio-cortez-blast-cynical-cuomo-backed-womens-equality-party |title=Cynthia Nixon and Ocasio-Cortez Blast 'Cynical' Cuomo-Backed Women's Equality Party for Endorsing Male Centrists in New York |publisher=Common Dreams |author=Julia Conley |date=July 19, 2018 |accessdate=August 11, 2019}}</ref> Former Connecticut Senator [[Joe Lieberman]], who won reelection in 2006 on a third-party line [[2006 United States Senate election in Connecticut|after losing the Democratic Primary in 2006]], penned a July 17 column in the ''[[The Wall Street Journal|Wall Street Journal]]'' expressing his hope that Crowley would actively campaign on the WFP [[Ballot access|ballot line]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/vote-joe-crowley-for-working-families-1531868231 |title=Vote Joe Crowley, for Working Families |last=Lieberman |first=Joseph |date=July 17, 2018 |newspaper=The Wall Street Journal |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180719203510/https://www.wsj.com/articles/vote-joe-crowley-for-working-families-1531868231 |archive-date=July 19, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=July 20, 2018}}</ref> Dan Cantor, Executive Director of the WFP, wrote an endorsement of, and apology to, Ocasio-Cortez for the ''[[New York Daily News]]''; he asked voters not to vote for Crowley if his name remained on the general election ballot.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-vote-against-joe-crowley-in-november-20180724-story.html |title=Vote against Joe Crowley in November: The Working Families Party chair regrets not endorsing Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |first=Dan |last=Cantor |work=New York Daily News |date=July 25, 2018 |accessdate=September 9, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726012404/http://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-vote-against-joe-crowley-in-november-20180724-story.html|archive-date=July 26, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Ocasio-Cortez won the election with 78% of the vote (110,318) to Pappas' 14% (17,762). Crowley, on the WFP and WEP lines, received 9,348 votes (6.6%). Her election was part of a broader Democratic victory in the 2018 midterm elections, as the party gained control of the House by picking up 41 seats.<ref>{{cite web |title=Certified Results from the November 6, 2018 General Election for U.S. Congress |url=https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/elections/2018/general/2018Congress.pdf |publisher=New York Board of Elections |accessdate=January 4, 2019 |archiveurl=https://www.webcitation.org/75AkXVKIV?url=https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/elections/2018/general/2018Congress.pdf |page=6 |archive-date=January 4, 2019 |url-status=dead}}</ref> [[Saikat Chakrabarti]], who had been her campaign co-chair, became [[chief of staff]] for her congressional office.<ref name="ChakrabartiNYPost">{{Cite web |last1=Vincent |first1=Isabel |title=Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff might have broken campaign finance laws |work=New York Post |date=March 3, 2019 |url=https://nypost.com/2019/03/02/ocasio-cortezs-chief-of-staff-might-have-broken-campaign-finance-laws/ |language=en |accessdate=March 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190306124609/https://nypost.com/2019/03/02/ocasio-cortezs-chief-of-staff-might-have-broken-campaign-finance-laws/ |archive-date=March 6, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Co-creator of two progressive political action committees, he has been called a significant political presence.<ref name="ChakrabartiCOS1">{{Cite web |last1=Okun |first1=Eli |title=Saikat Chakrabarti |work=Politico |date=2019 |url=https://www.politico.com/interactives/2018/politico-power-list-2019/saikat-chakrabarti/ |accessdate=March 10, 2019}}</ref> |
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===Media coverage=== |
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[[File:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ SXSW 2019 (46438132055) (cropped).jpg|thumb|upright|Ocasio-Cortez at the 2019 [[South by Southwest]]]] |
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The first media network to give Ocasio-Cortez a platform and extensively cover her campaign and policies was ''[[The Young Turks]]'' (TYT), a left-wing online news program.<ref name="GrigoryanSuetzl190"/> After her primary win, she quickly garnered nationwide media attention, including numerous articles and TV talk-show appearances. She also drew a great deal of media attention when she and Sanders campaigned for [[James Thompson (Kansas politician)|James Thompson]] in Kansas in July 2018.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Smarsh |first=Sarah |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jul/26/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-kansas-james-thompson |title=They thought this was Trump country. Hell no |date=July 26, 2018 |work=The Guardian|access-date=April 3, 2020 |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> A rally in [[Wichita, Kansas|Wichita]] had to be moved from a theater with a capacity of 1,500 when far more people said they would attend. The event drew 4,000 people, with some seated on the floor. In ''[[The New Yorker]]'', Benjamin Wallace-Wells wrote that while Sanders remained "the de-facto leader of an increasingly popular left, [he is unable to] do things that do not come naturally to him, like supply hope". Wallace-Wells suggested that Ocasio-Cortez had made Sanders's task easier, as he could point to her success to show that ideas "once considered to be radical are now part of the mainstream".<ref>{{cite news |date=July 23, 2018 |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/bernie-sanders-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-in-kansas |title=Bernie Sanders and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Kansas |last1=Wallace-Wells |first1=Benjamin |website=The New Yorker|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726005141/https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/bernie-sanders-and-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-in-kansas|archive-date=July 26, 2018|url-status=live |accessdate=July 30, 2018}}</ref> |
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Until she defeated incumbent [[Joe Crowley]] in the 2018 Democratic primary, Ocasio-Cortez received little coverage on most traditional news media outlets.<ref>{{cite news |last=Calderone |first=Michael |date=June 27, 2018 |title=Times takes heat for missing Crowley's defeat |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/new-york-times-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-679632 |work=Politico |access-date=July 1, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630080740/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/new-york-times-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-679632 |archive-date=June 30, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Margaret Sullivan keeps repeating">{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-victory-points-to-a-media-failure-that-keeps-repeating/2018/06/28/68f05130-7aca-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html |title=Perspective: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's victory points to a media failure that keeps repeating |last=Sullivan |first=Margaret |date=June 28, 2018 |work=The Washington Post|access-date=June 30, 2018 |issn=0190-8286|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629211530/https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-victory-points-to-a-media-failure-that-keeps-repeating/2018/06/28/68f05130-7aca-11e8-93cc-6d3beccdd7a3_story.html|archive-date=June 29, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Jimmy Dore]] interviewed her when she first announced her candidacy in June 2017.<ref>{{Cite av media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl5mpr7hUwc |title=Progressive Alexandria Ocasio Cortez Is Primarying Corporate Democrat in New York |via=YouTube |access-date=January 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171101011529/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bl5mpr7hUwc |work=[[Jimmy Dore|The Jimmy Dore Show]] |archive-date=November 1, 2017|url-status=live}}</ref> After her primary win, [[Brian Stelter]] wrote that progressive-media outlets, such as ''The Young Turks'' and ''[[The Intercept]]'', "saw the Ocasio-Cortez upset coming" in advance.<ref name="Brian Stelter saw upset" /> [[Margaret Sullivan (journalist)|Margaret Sullivan]] wrote in ''[[The Washington Post]]'' that traditional metrics of measuring a campaign's viability, like total fundraising, were contributing to a "media failure" and that "they need to get closer to what voters are thinking and feeling: their anger and resentment, their disenfranchisement from the centers of power, their pocketbook concerns."<ref name="Margaret Sullivan keeps repeating" /> |
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Ocasio-Cortez's campaign was featured on the cover of the June 2018 edition of ''[[The Indypendent]]'',<ref>{{cite web |last1=Tarleton |first1=John |last2=McMullan-Laird |first2=Lydia |title=Beat The Machine |url=https://indypendent.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Indypendent-Issue-236-Opt.pdf |date=June 1, 2018 |website=The Indypendent |accessdate=July 22, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://indypendent.org/2018/05/alexandria-vs-goliath/ |title=Alexandria vs. Goliath |first1=John |last1=Tarleton |first2=Lydia |last2=McMullen-Laird |date=May 31, 2018 |work=[[The Indypendent]] |accessdate=December 13, 2019}}</ref> a free New York City-based monthly newspaper. In a tweet she hailed the cover appearance on "NYC's classic monthly" as an important breakthrough for her campaign.<ref>{{Cite tweet |user=aoc |number=1002986431013376001 |title=Holy SMOKES! Our campaign is the FRONT PAGE STORY of NYC's classic monthly, @TheIndypendent! Look for it on a sidewalk corner near you all month long! If you find one, snap a pic and @ me - this one's from @analisacantu pic.twitter.com/LHOFQp7Fuq |first=Alexandria |last=Ocasio-Cortez |date=June 2, 2018}}</ref> Otherwise Ocasio-Cortez was barely mentioned in print until her primary win.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-upset-but-crowley-grabs-headlines/737127002/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins an upset and her supporters want the media to say her name |last=Shannon |first=Joel |date=June 27, 2018 |newspaper=USA Today |access-date=June 30, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627193908/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-upset-but-crowley-grabs-headlines/737127002/ |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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''The Young Turks'' have continued to cover Ocasio-Cortez and defend her from political and media elites who see her as outside the political culture of DC, with occasional criticism on some of her policies.<ref name="GrigoryanSuetzl190">{{cite book |last1=Grigoryan |first1=Nune |last2=Suetzl |first2=Wolfgang |chapter=Hybridized political participation|editor1-last=Atkinson|editor1-first=Joshua D.|editor2-last=Kenix|editor2-first=Linda |title=Alternative Media Meets Mainstream Politics: Activist Nation Rising |year=2019 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=9781498584357 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D_CYDwAAQBAJ |pages=190 |ref=harv}}</ref> |
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Ocasio-Cortez was one of the subjects of the 2018 [[Michael Moore]] documentary ''[[Fahrenheit 11/9]]''; it chronicled her primary campaign.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/michael-moore-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fahrenheit-119_n_5b993c2fe4b0cf7b0045b67c |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Explains This Year's Progressive Wave in Michael Moore's New Film |last=Fang |first=Marina |date=September 12, 2018 |publisher=HuffPost|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116042748/https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/michael-moore-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fahrenheit-119_us_5b993c2fe4b0cf7b0045b67c|archive-date=January 16, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=mmflint |title=Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 11/9 : Official Trailer - In Theaters 9/21 |date=August 9, 2018 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRQv9xMQ3E0|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190303165402/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRQv9xMQ3E0|archive-date=March 3, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In an attempt to embarrass Ocasio-Cortez just before she took office, Twitter user "AnonymousQ" shared a video dating to Ocasio-Cortez's college years: a Boston University student-produced dance video in which she briefly appeared.<ref name="Lyons Walters 2019">{{cite news |last1=Lyons |first1=Kate |last2=Walters |first2=Joanna |title=Ocasio-Cortez's response to jibes about college dance video? A congressional dance video |newspaper=The Guardian |date=January 4, 2019 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/04/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-college-dance-video-discredit-backfires |access-date=February 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113015845/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jan/04/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-college-dance-video-discredit-backfires | archive-date=January 13, 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref> Many social media users came to her defense, inspiring memes and a Twitter account syncing the footage to songs like "[[Mambo No. 5]]" and "[[Gangnam Style]]".<ref name="The New York Times 2019">{{cite news |first=Tiffany |last=May |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Dancing Video Was Meant as a Smear, but It Backfired |newspaper=The New York Times |date=January 4, 2019 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-dance-video.html | access-date=February 15, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214104909/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/04/us/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-dance-video.html | archive-date=February 14, 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez responded by posting a lighthearted video of herself dancing to [[Edwin Starr]]'s "[[War (The Temptations song)|War]]" outside her congressional office.<ref name="Lyons Walters 2019"/> |
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In 2019, [[Elizabeth Warren]] wrote the entry on Ocasio-Cortez for that year's [[Time 100|''Time'' 100]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://time.com/collection/100-most-influential-people-2019/5567752/alexandria-ocasio-cortez/ |first=Elizabeth |last=Warren |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is on the 2019 TIME 100 List |publisher=Time.com |date=April 17, 2019 |accessdate=April 17, 2019}}</ref> In January 2019 the documentary ''[[Knock Down the House]]'', which focuses on four female Democrats in the [[2018 United States elections]] who were not career politicians, including Ocasio-Cortez, Amy Vilela, [[Cori Bush]], and [[Paula Jean Swearengin]], premiered at the [[2019 Sundance Film Festival]]. Ocasio-Cortez was the only one of the women featured to win.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/movies/2019/01/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-surprises-sundance-premiere-her-new-doc/2698284002/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez surprises at Sundance premiere of her emotional new documentary |website=[[USA Today]] |first=Patrick |last=Ryan |date=January 28, 2019 |accessdate=January 31, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/knock-down-house-watch-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-receive-standing-ovation-1306983 |title=Knock Down the House: Watch Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Receive Standing Ovation From Sundance Audience After Documentary Screening |website=[[Newsweek]] |first=Ewan |last=Palmer |date=January 28, 2019 |accessdate=January 31, 2019}}</ref> It was released by [[Netflix]] on May 1, 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.vox.com/culture/2019/4/22/18510907/knock-down-house-netflix-trailer-ocasio-cortez |title=Watch: Netflix's Knock Down the House trailer is here to make politics feel a little more hopeful |website=[[Vox (magazine)|Vox]] |first=Alissa |last=Wilkinson |date=April 22, 2019 |accessdate=May 1, 2019}}</ref> |
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== 2020 campaign == |
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In 2020 [[Michelle Caruso-Cabrera]] challenged Ocasio-Cortez in the Democratic primary.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Ocasio-Cortez Faces Two Challengers in NY1 Congressional Primary Debate|url=https://www.ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/news/2020/06/06/nyc-elections-2020-whos-running-14th-congressional-district-debate-corona-sunnyside-throgs-neck|access-date=2020-10-18|website=www.ny1.com|language=en}}</ref> After Ocasio-Cortez won the nomination, Caruso-Cabrera reorganized and ran in the general election as the [[Serve America Movement]] nominee.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|title=United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 2020|url=https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_York,_2020|access-date=2020-10-18|website=Ballotpedia|language=en}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez's Republican challengers in the general election include nominee John Cummings, a former police officer, and Antoine Tucker, a write-in.<ref name=":1" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Klar|first=Rebecca|date=2020-05-26|title=Ocasio-Cortez challenger drops out of GOP primary|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/499462-ocasio-cortez-challenger-drops-out-of-gop-primary|access-date=2020-10-18|website=TheHill|language=en}}</ref> |
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The ''[[The American Prospect|American Prospect]]'' wrote in October 2020 that Ocasio-Cortez was "spending the 2020 campaign running workshops" for constituents on workplace-organizing workshop, fighting eviction, and organizing collective childcare.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last=Gibson|first=Brittany|date=2020-10-15|title=The Politician as Organizer|url=https://prospect.org/api/content/fdde06bc-0f0a-11eb-a3c6-1244d5f7c7c6/|access-date=2020-10-18|website=The American Prospect|language=en-us}}</ref> They noted that Ocasio-Cortez was often not featured in the streamed workshops, saying the "strategy decentralizes the candidate from her own campaign.<ref name=":0" /> |
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==116th Congress== |
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===Tenure=== |
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[[File:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - 2019-01-16 Speech about an immigrant constituent.webm|thumb|Ocasio-Cortez's maiden speech as a Representative, addressing the [[2018–19 United States federal government shutdown]]]] |
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When the 116th Congress convened on January 3, 2019, Ocasio-Cortez entered with no [[seniority]] but with a large [[social media]] presence. [[Axios (website)|''Axios'']] credited her with "as much social media clout as her fellow freshman Democrats combined".<ref name="axiosnov">{{cite web |url=https://www.axios.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-followers-house-democrats-d7818025-a1a5-444d-a598-b5983021e92b.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has as much social media clout as her fellow freshman Democrats, combined |last=McCammond |first=Alexi |date=November 28, 2018 |publisher=[[Axios (website)|Axios]]|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181128220300/https://www.axios.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-followers-house-democrats-d7818025-a1a5-444d-a598-b5983021e92b.html|archive-date=November 28, 2018|url-status=live |accessdate=December 3, 2018}}</ref> {{Asof|2020|8|since=}}, she had 8 million [[Twitter]] followers,<ref name="socmedia1">{{cite web |url=https://twitter.com/AOC |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) |via=Twitter|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101050812/https://twitter.com/aoc|archive-date=January 1, 2019|url-status=live |access-date=January 13, 2019}}</ref> up from 1.4 million in November 2018<ref name=axiosnov/> and surpassing Nancy Pelosi.<ref name="nytimes1">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/us/politics/tlaib-aoc-new-congress.html |title=Liberal Freshmen Are Shaking the Capitol Just Days into the New Congress |first=Catie |last=Edmondson |date=January 6, 2019 |work=The New York Times|access-date=January 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190113062712/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/06/us/politics/tlaib-aoc-new-congress.html|archive-date=January 13, 2019|url-status=live |author2=Emily Cochrane |author3=Lisa Friedman}}</ref> She had 2.2 million [[Instagram]] followers as of January 2019<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.instagram.com/ocasio2018/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@ocasio2018) |via=Instagram |access-date=January 4, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107080109/https://www.instagram.com/ocasio2018/|archive-date=January 7, 2019|url-status=dead}}</ref> and 500,000 followers on [[Facebook]] as of February 2019.<ref name="Benwell 2019">{{cite news |last=Benwell |first=Max |title=💃😂✊: How Ocasio-Cortez beat everyone at Twitter in nine tweets |newspaper=The Guardian |date=February 12, 2019 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/12/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-social-media | access-date=February 15, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215032241/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/12/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-twitter-social-media | archive-date=February 15, 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref> Her colleagues appointed her to teach them social media lessons upon her arrival in Congress.<ref name="Benwell 2019"/> In early July 2019 two lawsuits were filed against her for blocking [[Joseph Saladino]] and [[Dov Hikind]] on Twitter in light of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit|Second Circuit Court of Appeals]] ruling that it was a violation of the [[First Amendment to the United States Constitution|First Amendment]] for [[Donald Trump|President Trump]] to block people on Twitter.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/07/10/ocasio-cortez-faces-lawsuits-blocking-twitter-critics-after-appeals-court-ruling-trump/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez faces lawsuits for blocking Twitter critics after appeals court ruling on Trump |last=Paul |first=Deanna |date=July 10, 2019 |work=The Washington Post|access-date=}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.newsweek.com/republicans-sue-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-blocking-them-twitter-1448415 |title=Democrat and Republican sue Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for blocking them on Twitter |first=Scott |last=McDonald |date=July 9, 2019 |website=Newsweek |access-date=July 22, 2019}}</ref> On November 4, 2019, it was announced that they settled the lawsuit with Ocasio-Cortez issuing a statement apologizing for the Twitter block.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Bowden |first1=John |title=Ocasio-Cortez apologizes for blocking ex-politician on Twitter, settles lawsuit |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/468877-ocasio-cortez-apologizes-for-blocking-ex-politician-on-twitter-settles-lawsuit |date=November 4, 2019 |work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |accessdate=November 11, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Gershman |first1=Jacob |last2=Morris |first2=Betsy |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Apologizes for Blocking Twitter Critic |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-fights-for-the-right-to-block-some-critics-on-twitter-11572871369 |date=November 4, 2019 |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |accessdate=November 11, 2019}}</ref> |
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In a 2019 interview, Ocasio-Cortez said she had stopped using her private Facebook account and was minimizing her usage of all social media accounts and platforms, calling them a "public health risk".<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.acast.com/skullduggery/aocunfiltered |title=AOC unfiltered {{!}} Skullduggery on acast|last=acast|date=April 15, 2019 |website=acast |access-date=May 6, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2019/04/15/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-quits-facebook-calls-social-media-public-health-risk/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez quits Facebook, calls social media a 'public health risk' |first=Hamza |last=Shaban |date=April 15, 2019 |website=The Washington Post |access-date=May 6, 2019}}</ref> |
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====Arrival==== |
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In November 2018, on the first day of congressional orientation, Ocasio-Cortez participated in a climate change protest outside the office of [[House Minority Leader]] [[Nancy Pelosi]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nancy-pelosi/1987514002/ |title=On her first day of orientation on Capitol Hill, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez protests in Pelosi's office |last=Gaudiano |first=Nicole |work=USA Today |date=November 13, 2018 |accessdate=November 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127083133/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-nancy-pelosi/1987514002/ |archive-date=November 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> Also that month, she backed Pelosi's bid to be [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]] once the Democratic Party reclaimed the majority on the condition that Pelosi "remains the most progressive candidate for speaker".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21/politics/alexandria-ocasio--cortez-nancy-pelosi-house-speaker/index.html |title=Ocasio-Cortez backs Pelosi for speaker as long as she 'remains the most progressive candidate' |last=LeBlanc |first=Paul |publisher=CNN |date=November 22, 2018 |accessdate=November 26, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126020703/https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21/politics/alexandria-ocasio--cortez-nancy-pelosi-house-speaker/index.html |archive-date=November 26, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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[[File:9H1A8450 (44361385310).jpg|thumb|right|Ocasio-Cortez and U.S. Senator [[Bernie Sanders]] in December 2018]] |
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During the orientation for new members hosted by the [[John F. Kennedy School of Government]], Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter in December 2018 about the influence of corporate interests by sponsors such as the [[American Enterprise Institute]] and the [[Center for Strategic and International Studies]]: "Lobbyists are here. [[Goldman Sachs]] is here. Where's labor? Activists? Frontline community leaders?"<ref>{{cite news |first=Eliza |last=Relman |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-house-freshmen-are-protesting-orientation-harvard-2018-12 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and House freshmen are protesting orientation |publisher=Business Insider |date=December 6, 2018 |accessdate=December 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217110552/https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-house-freshmen-are-protesting-orientation-harvard-2018-12 |archive-date=December 17, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Hignett |first=Katherine |url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lobbyists-congress-harvard-rashida-tlaib-1248959 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Blasts 'Bipartisan' Congressional Orientation: 'Lobbyists are here...Where's Labor?' |work=Newsweek |date=August 2, 2018 |accessdate=December 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181216160940/https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lobbyists-congress-harvard-rashida-tlaib-1248959 |archive-date=December 16, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Alex |last=Gangitano |url=https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/420172-ocasio-cortez-rips-presence-of-lobbyists-at |title=Ocasio-Cortez rips presence of lobbyists at orientation event |publisher=TheHill |date=December 6, 2018 |accessdate=December 17, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181217062744/https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/420172-ocasio-cortez-rips-presence-of-lobbyists-at |archive-date=December 17, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In January 2019, when Ocasio-Cortez made her first speech on the floor of Congress, [[C-SPAN]] [[tweeted]] the video. Within 12 hours, the video of her four-minute speech set the record as [[C-SPAN]]'s most-watched Twitter video by a member of the House of Representatives.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://time.com/5506749/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-house-speech-cspan-record/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's First House Speech Broke a C-SPAN Record |work=Time|access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190118202200/http://time.com/5506749/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-house-speech-cspan-record/|archive-date=January 18, 2019|url-status=live |first=Mahita |last=Gajanan |date=January 18, 2019}}</ref> |
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====Hearings==== |
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In February 2019, speaking at a Congressional hearing with a panel of representatives from [[campaign finance]] watchdog groups, Ocasio-Cortez questioned the panel about ethics regulations as they apply to both the president and members of Congress. She asserted that no regulations prevent lawmakers "from being bought off by wealthy corporations".<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wyatt |first1=Tim |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivers devastating dissection of US financial system and political corruption in congress speech |date=February 8, 2019 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congress-speech-campaign-finance-corruption-election-aoc-a8769381.html |newspaper=The Independent |accessdate=February 12, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190210075120/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-congress-speech-campaign-finance-corruption-election-aoc-a8769381.html |archive-date=February 10, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> With more than 37.5 million views, the clip became the most-watched political video posted on Twitter.<ref name="Wolfson 2019">{{cite news |last=Wolfson |first=Sam |title=Why Ocasio-Cortez's lesson in dark money is the most-watched political video |newspaper=The Guardian |date=February 14, 2019 |url=http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/14/campaign-finance-but-make-it-viral-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-unlikely-video-hit | access-date=February 15, 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190215002321/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/feb/14/campaign-finance-but-make-it-viral-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-unlikely-video-hit | archive-date=February 15, 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref> |
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When President [[Donald Trump]]'s former lawyer [[Michael Cohen (lawyer)|Michael Cohen]] appeared before the [[United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform|Oversight Committee]] in February 2019, Ocasio-Cortez asked him whether Trump had inflated property values for bank or insurance purposes and inquired where to get more information on the subject.<ref>{{cite news |title=Michael Cohen concludes his testimony: 'I will not sit back' |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/michael-cohen-testimony/2019/02/27/089664f0-39fb-11e9-a2cd-307b06d0257b_story.html |website=The Washington Post |accessdate=June 15, 2019 |date=February 27, 2019 |first1=Matt |last1=Zapotosky |first2=Karoun |last2=Demirjian |first3=Rosalind S. |last3=Helderman |first4=Rachael |last4=Bade |first5=Shane |last5=Harris}}</ref> Cohen's reply implied that Trump may have committed [[Tax evasion|tax]] and [[bank fraud]] in his personal and business tax returns, financial statements and real-estate filings.<ref>{{cite news |date=February 27, 2019 |url=https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2019/02/27/seven-big-moments-from-cohen-testimony-far/XAoycU0SwdZeNwzHGgZIYN/story.html |title=10 big moments from Cohen's testimony |author=James Pindell |newspaper=The Boston Globe|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302210354/https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/nation/2019/02/27/seven-big-moments-from-cohen-testimony-far/XAoycU0SwdZeNwzHGgZIYN/story.html|archive-date=March 2, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="cbsnews.com">{{cite news |date=February 28, 2019 |first=Aimee |last=Picchi |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-claims-trump-lies-about-his-wealth-heres-why-it-matters/ |title=Michael Cohen claims Trump lies about his wealth – here's why it matters |publisher=CBS News|access-date=March 2, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302061533/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michael-cohen-claims-trump-lies-about-his-wealth-heres-why-it-matters/|archive-date=March 2, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> The president of the [[American Constitution Society]] named Ocasio-Cortez as the committee member best at obtaining specific information from Cohen about Trump's "shady practices, along with a road map for how to find out more."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Caroline |first1=Fredrickson |title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Won the Cohen Hearing |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/opinion/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cohen-hearing.html |date=February 28, 2019 |website=The New York Times |accessdate=March 2, 2019}}</ref> ''New York Times'' columnist [[David Brooks (commentator)|David Brooks]] praised her skill in questioning Cohen.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Woodruff |first=Judy |last2=Shields |first2=Mark |last3=Brooks |first3=David |title=Shields and Brooks on Cohen testimony, North Korea summit |type=Transcript |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/shields-and-brooks-on-cohen-testimony-north-korea-summit |work=PBS News Hour |date=March 1, 2019 |access-date=March 2, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190302120236/https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/shields-and-brooks-on-cohen-testimony-north-korea-summit |archive-date=March 2, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> The exchange between Ocasio-Cortez and Cohen prompted an investigation by New York Attorney General [[Letitia James]], who referred to it in August 2020 when filing legal action to compel Trump's companies to comply with subpoenas about financial information, and to compel his son [[Eric Trump]] to testify.<ref>{{Cite web|title=AOC's Grilling of Michael Cohen Was What Led to NY AG's Fraud Case Against Trump Businesses, Eric Trump |website=lawandcrime.com |url=https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/aocs-grilling-of-michael-cohen-was-what-led-to-ny-ags-fraud-case-against-trump-businesses-eric-trump/ |date=August 24, 2020 |first=Colin |last=Kalmbacher|access-date=August 25, 2020|language=en}}</ref> |
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====Media coverage==== |
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According to reports in March 2019, Ocasio-Cortez continued to receive media coverage early in her congressional tenure on par with that of [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential candidates]]<ref name="WaPo20190321">{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/03/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-not-second-most-talked-about-politician-america/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is not the 'second most talked-about politician in America' |last=Bump |first=Phillip |date=March 21, 2019 |work=The Washington Post|access-date=March 28, 2019}}</ref> and was considered "one of the faces of the Democratic party"<ref name=CNN20190321>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21/media/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-time-magazine-cover/index.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 'second most talked-about politician in America,' graces Time cover |last=Kludt |first=Tom |publisher=CNN |date=March 21, 2019|access-date=March 28, 2019}}</ref> and one of the most talked-about politicians in the United States.<ref name="Time20190321">{{Cite news |url=https://time.com/longform/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-profile/ |title='Change Is Closer Than We Think.' Inside Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Unlikely Rise |last=Alter |first=Charlotte |publisher=Time |language=en |quote=Wonder Woman of the left, Wicked Witch of the right, Ocasio-Cortez has become the second most talked-about politician in America, after the President of the United States... No lawmaker in recent memory has translated so few votes into so much political and social capital so quickly. |date=March 21, 2019|access-date=March 28, 2019}}</ref> Between July 8 and 14, 2019, she drew more social media attention than the Democratic presidential candidates. Tracking company NewsWhip found that interactions with news articles on Ocasio-Cortez numbered 4.8 million, while no Democratic presidential candidate got more than 1.2 million. David Bauder of the [[Associated Press]] wrote that Trump's supporters were thus having "some success" in having "Ocasio-Cortez be top of mind when people think of" the Democratic Party.<ref name=dominating>{{cite web |last1=Bauder |first1=David |title=Stats show how AOC dominating social media attention |url=https://www.apnews.com/1e006443442a465fa4e2b38acab5e29c |website=[[Associated Press]] |accessdate=July 21, 2019 |date=July 18, 2019}}</ref> |
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According to a [[Media Matters for America]] study, Ocasio-Cortez has been intensely discussed on sister television channels Fox News and Fox Business, being mentioned every day from February 25 to April 7, 2019, for a total of 3,181 mentions in 42 days (an average of around 75 per day). ''The Guardian''{{'s}} [[David Smith (journalist)|David Smith]] wrote that this is evidence that Fox is "obsessed by Ocasio-Cortez, portraying her as a radical socialist who threatens the American way of life."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=David |title=Fox mentions Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for 42 days running – 3,181 times |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/apr/12/fox-mentions-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-for-42-days-running |date=April 12, 2019 |work=[[The Guardian]] |accessdate=April 15, 2019}}</ref> Brian Stelter of [[CNN Business]] found that between January to July 2019, she had nearly three times as many mentions on Fox News as on CNN and MSNBC, and seven times the coverage of [[James Clyburn]], a Democratic leader in the House of Representatives. Stelter wrote that the attention Ocasio-Cortez is receiving has caused "the perception, particularly on the right, that her positions and policies are representative of the Democratic Party as a whole".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stelter |first1=Brian |title=How Fox News fuels Trump's fixation with AOC and Ilhan Omar |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/21/media/fox-news-aoc-ilhan-omar/index.html |website=[[CNN Business]] |accessdate=July 22, 2019 |date=July 22, 2019}}</ref> In a [[CBS News]] and [[YouGov]] poll of almost 2,100 American adults conducted from July 17 to 19, it was found that Republican respondents were more aware of Ocasio-Cortez than Democratic respondents. She had very unfavorable ratings among Republican respondents and favorable ratings among Democratic respondents.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Backus |first1=Fred |last2=Salvanto |first2=Anthony |title=Most Americans disagree with Trump's "go back" tweets — CBS News poll |date=July 21, 2019 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/most-americans-disagree-with-trumps-go-back-tweets-cbs-news-poll/ |website=[[CBS News]] |accessdate=July 22, 2019}}</ref> |
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In March 2019, ''[[PolitiFact]]'' reported that Ocasio-Cortez is "one of the most targeted politicians for hoax claims, despite the fact that she just entered Congress as a freshman". Fake quotes attributed to her, fake photos of her, and false rumors about her have spread on [[social media]]. Some of these have originated from [[4chan]] and [[r/The_Donald]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=O'Rourke |first1=Ciara |title=No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez probably didn't say that |url=https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/mar/27/no-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-probably-didnt-say/ |website=[[Politifact]] |accessdate=July 12, 2019 |date=March 27, 2019}}</ref> By July 2019 the fake material included attributing things Trump said to Ocasio-Cortez, such as "I have a very good brain and I’ve said lots of things."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Putterman |first1=Samantha |title=Ocasio-Cortez didn't say she speaks with herself because she has 'a very good brain.' That was Trump |url=https://www.politifact.com/facebook-fact-checks/statements/2019/jul/11/facebook-posts/ocasio-cortez-didnt-say-she-speaks-herself-because/ |website=[[Politifact]] |accessdate=July 12, 2019 |date=July 11, 2019}}</ref> On July 18, 2019, Charlie Rispoli, a police officer from [[Gretna, Louisiana|Gretna]], posted on Facebook an apparent threat to shoot Ocasio-Cortez, calling her a "vile idiot" who "needs a round, and I don't mean the kind she used to serve" as a bartender. Rispoli posted the comment in response to a [[fake news]] article that falsely quoted Ocasio-Cortez as saying "We pay soldiers too much". A photo from the article also had the label "[[satire]]".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Calder |first1=Chad |title=Gretna police officer suggests U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'needs a round' in social media post |url=https://www.nola.com/news/crime_police/article_a206330a-aa5c-11e9-a2da-e7a8c6248a10.html |date=July 20, 2019 |website=[[nola.com]] |accessdate=July 21, 2019}}</ref> Rispoli was fired for his post and his Facebook account was deleted.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/louisiana-police-officer-suggests-facebook-aoc-be-shot-n1032281 |title=Louisiana police officer fired after suggesting AOC should be shot |last=Smith |first=Allan |date=July 22, 2019 |work=NBC News |accessdate=July 22, 2019}}</ref> |
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===="The Squad"==== |
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Ocasio-Cortez is a member of an informal group of progressive freshmen members of Congress called "[[The Squad (United States Congress)|The Squad]]," along with [[Ilhan Omar]] (D-MN), [[Ayanna Pressley]] (D-MA), and [[Rashida Tlaib]] (D-MI).<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/for-ayanna-pressley-the-beauty-of-unexpected-wins-led-to-congress-and-a-historic-office/2019/01/15/61d04b5e-14fc-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html |title=For Ayanna Pressley, the beauty of unexpected wins led to Congress and a historic office |last=Epstein |first=Kayla |date=January 16, 2019 |work=The Washington Post|access-date=July 15, 2019}}</ref> On July 14, Trump attacked the Squad in a tweet, saying that they should "go back and help fix" the countries they came from rather than criticize the American government.<ref name="BBC congresswomen">{{cite news |title=Trump to congresswomen of colour: Leave the US |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48982172 |accessdate=December 13, 2019 |work=BBC News |date=July 15, 2019}}</ref> He continued to make the same kind of comment over the next several days, even though three of the women, including Ocasio-Cortez, were born in the United States. Ocasio-Cortez responded in a tweet that "the President's words [yesterday], telling four American Congresswomen of color "go back to your own country," is [[Perpetual foreigner|hallmark language]] of [[white supremacy|white supremacists]]." She later added, "We don't leave the things that we love, and when we love this country, what that means is that we propose the solutions to fix it."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/07/15/741771445/trump-continues-twitter-assault-on-4-minority-congresswomen |title=Lawmakers Respond To Trump's Racist Comments: We Are Here To Stay |last=Naylor |first=Brian |date=July 15, 2019 |work=NPR |accessdate=July 20, 2019}}</ref> Days later, Trump falsely asserted that Ocasio-Cortez called "our country and our people 'garbage'"; she had actually said that Americans should not be content with moderate policies that are "10% better from garbage".<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 20, 2019 |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/19/politics/fact-check-trump-aoc-garbage-omar-jews/index.html |title=Fact check: Trump falsely accuses Ocasio-Cortez of calling Americans 'garbage' |first=Daniel |last=Dale |website=CNN |accessdate=July 22, 2019}}</ref> Trump also falsely claimed that Ocasio-Cortez said "illegal immigrants are more American" than Americans who tried to keep them out; she actually said that "women and children on that border that are trying to seek refuge and opportunity" in America "are acting more American" than those who tried to keep them out.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Greenberg |first1=Jon |last2=Sherman |first2=Amy |title=Fact-checking Trump's misleading attacks on Omar, Ocasio-Cortez in North Carolina |url=https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2019/jul/18/fact-checking-trumps-misleading-attacks-omar-ocasi/ |date=July 18, 2019}}</ref> |
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====Green New Deal==== |
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{{Main|Green New Deal}} |
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[[File:116th United States Congress H. Res.0109 (1st session) - Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal.pdf|thumb|H. Res. 109: "Recognizing the duty of the Federal Government to create a Green New Deal"; the first piece of legislation authored by Ocasio-Cortez.]] |
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On February 7, 2019, Ocasio-Cortez submitted her first piece of legislation, the Green New Deal, to the Senate. She and Senator [[Ed Markey]] released a joint non-binding resolution laying out the main elements of a 10-year "economic mobilization" that would phase out fossil fuel use and overhaul the nation's infrastructure. Their plan called for implementing the "[[social cost of carbon]]" that was part of the Obama administration's plans to address climate change. In the process it aimed to create jobs and boost the economy.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/green-new-deal-details/index.html |title=Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal: What's in it |first=Lydia |last=DePillis |date=February 7, 2019 |accessdate=February 7, 2019 |publisher=[[CNN]] | archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20190207182351/https://edition.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/green-new-deal-details/index.html | archive-date = February 7, 2019 | url-status=live}}</ref> According to CNBC, an initial outline the Green New Deal called for "completely ditching fossil fuels, upgrading or replacing 'every building' in the country and 'totally overhaul[ing] transportation' to the point where 'air travel stops becoming necessary'". The outline set a goal of having the U.S. "creating 'net-zero' greenhouse gases in 10 years. Why 'net zero'? The lawmakers explained: 'We set a goal to get to net-zero, rather than zero emissions, in 10 years because we aren’t sure that we’ll be able to fully get rid of farting cows and airplanes that fast.'"<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-keeps-farting-cows-for-now.html |title=Does Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez really want to get rid of 'farting cows'? Not yet, at least |first=Kevin |last=Breuninger |date=February 7, 2019 |website=CNBC}}</ref> Activist groups such as [[Green Peace|Greenpeace]] and the [[Sunrise Movement]] came out in favor of the plan. No Republican lawmakers voiced support.<ref name="FoxDemsDivided GND">{{cite news |last1=Quinn |first1=Liam |title=Dems divided on Green New Deal after Mitch McConnell ramps up pressure |date=February 14, 2019 |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-remain-divided-on-green-new-deal-after-mitch-mcconnell-ramps-up-pressure |publisher=Fox News |accessdate=February 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223063805/https://www.foxnews.com/politics/dems-remain-divided-on-green-new-deal-after-mitch-mcconnell-ramps-up-pressure |archive-date=February 23, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="CNNPelosiGND">{{cite news |last1=Cillizza |first1=Chris |title=Nancy Pelosi just threw some serious shade at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal' |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/pelosi-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal/index.html |publisher=CNN |accessdate=February 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223095116/https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/07/politics/pelosi-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal/index.html |archive-date=February 23, 2019 |url-status=live |date=February 8, 2019}}</ref> The plan gained support from some Democratic senators, including [[Elizabeth Warren]], [[Bernie Sanders]] and [[Cory Booker]];<ref name="Friedman 2019" /> other Democrats, such as Senator [[Dianne Feinstein]] and House Speaker [[Nancy Pelosi]], dismissed the proposal (Pelosi has referred to it as "the green dream, or whatever they call it").<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aoc-climate-change-have-kids-children-1342853 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wonders whether Americans should stop having children in the face of climate change |first=Nicole |last=Goodkind |date=February 25, 2019 |website=Newsweek}}</ref> |
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On March 26, in what Democrats called a "stunt", Senate Republicans called for an early vote on the [[Green New Deal]] without allowing discussion or expert testimony. [[Ed Markey|Markey]] said Republicans were trying to "make a mockery" of the [[Green New Deal]] debate and called the vote a "sham". In protest, Senate Democrats voted "present" or against the bill, resulting in a 57–0 defeat on the Senate floor.<ref name="GND_vote">{{Cite web |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/climate-change-which-democrats-oppose-green-new-deal/585802/ |title=The 3 Democrats Who Voted Against the Green New Deal |last=Meyer |first=Robinson |work=The Atlantic |quote=The Senate rejected the Green New Deal on Tuesday, in a decisive 57–0 vote that Democrats decried as a political stunt meant to divide their caucus. All the Republican senators opposed the measure. They were joined by four senators who caucus with the Democrats—Senator Joe Manchin, from the coal-heavy state of West Virginia, along with Senators Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona, Doug Jones of Alabama, and Angus King of Maine. |date=March 26, 2019 |accessdate=March 28, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first1=Joe |last1=Battenfield |title=Green New Fail as Dems shun GOP-forced vote on climate bill |url=https://www.bostonherald.com/2019/03/26/green-new-fail-as-dems-shun-gop-forced-vote-on-climate-bill/ |accessdate=March 27, 2019 |work=Boston Herald |date=March 26, 2019 |quote=an early vote on the Green New Deal on Tuesday and not a single U.S. Senator—including the measure's sponsor, Massachusetts' Ed Markey—signed on to the overly ambitious environmental overhaul}}</ref> In March 2019, a group of UK activists proposed that the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] adopt a similar plan, "Labour for a Green New Deal." The group said it was inspired by the Sunrise Movement and the work Ocasio-Cortez has done in the US.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Taylor |first1=Matthew |title=Labour members launch Green New Deal inspired by US activists |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/mar/22/labour-members-launch-green-new-deal-inspired-by-us-activists |newspaper=The Guardian |accessdate=April 16, 2019 |date=March 22, 2019}}</ref> |
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====Verbal assault==== |
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On July 20, 2020, Republican Representatives [[Ted Yoho]] and [[Roger Williams (American politician)|Roger Williams]] accosted Ocasio-Cortez on the steps of the Capitol, where Yoho (as overheard by a journalist) called her "disgusting" and "a fucking bitch" and told her, "You are out of your freaking mind" for recently suggesting that poverty and unemployment were driving a spike in crime in [[New York City]] during the [[coronavirus pandemic]]. Ocasio-Cortez told Yoho he was being "rude". As Ocasio-Cortez walked away from Yoho into the Capitol, Yoho called her a "fucking bitch".<ref>{{cite news |first=Mike |last=Lillis |date=July 21, 2020 |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/508259-ocasio-cortez-accosted-by-gop-lawmaker-over-remarks-that-kind-of|title= Ocasio-Cortez accosted by GOP lawmaker over remarks: 'That kind of confrontation hasn't ever happened to me'|website=The Hill|accessdate= July 22, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2020/07/21/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ted-yoho-confrontation-sot-vpx-nr.cnn/video/playlists/this-week-in-politics/ |date=July 21, 2020 |title= Lawmaker reportedly verbally accosts Ocasio-Cortez|website=[[CNN]]|accessdate= July 22, 2020}}</ref> When asked about the incident, Ocasio-Cortez said, "That kind of confrontation hasn't ever happened to me ever... I've never had that kind of abrupt, disgusting kind of disrespect levied at me." Yoho was asked to comment but declined. Minority Leader [[Kevin McCarthy (California politician)|Kevin McCarthy]] condemned Yoho's actions and House Majority Leader [[Steny Hoyer]] said that Yoho should apologize publicly and that his conduct "needs to be sanctioned".<ref>{{cite news |first=Sarah |last=Ferris |date=July 21, 2020 |url=https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/21/democrats-defend-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-yoho-376190|title= Dems defend Ocasio-Cortez after tense exchange with GOP lawmaker|website=[[Politico]]|accessdate= July 22, 2020}}</ref> |
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On July 22, Yoho [[wikisource:On the strife I injected|addressed the matter on the House floor]] and, without naming Ocasio-Cortez, said he had not addressed the "offensive name-calling words" to any of his colleagues directly. He apologized for "the abrupt manner of the conversation I had with my colleague from New York—it is true that we disagree on policies and visions for America—but that does not mean we should be disrespectful. Having been married for 45 years with two daughters, I'm very cognizant of my language."<ref>{{cite news |date=July 22, 2020 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/gop-congressman-offers-semi-apology-aoc-after-she-says-he-n1234585 |first=Allan |last=Smith |title= GOP congressman offers semi-apology to AOC after she says he called her 'disgusting' and 'crazy'|website=[[NBC News]]|accessdate= July 22, 2020}}</ref> |
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On July 23, Ocasio-Cortez [[wikisource:The incident this week|responded to Yoho's comments]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53521143|title= Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez denounces 'sexist slur by congressman'|website=[[BBC]]|date=July 23, 2020|accessdate=July 23, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/23/aoc-speech-video-ted-yoho |agency=Associated Press |title= Ocasio-Cortez delivers powerful speech after Republican's sexist remarks|website=[[The Guardian (newspaper)|The Guardian]]|date=July 24, 2020|accessdate= July 23, 2020}}</ref> In a widely televised speech, she condemned [[male privilege]], systemic sexist behavior and culture, and violent language against women.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://time.com/5870872/aoc-sexism-speech-ted-yoho/ |first=Alan |last=Fram |date=July 23, 2020 |agency=Associated Press |title= Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrats Condemn Sexist Culture, 'Violent Language Against Women' on House Floor|website= [[Time (magazine)|Time Magazinee]]|accessdate= July 23, 2020}}</ref> She also criticized Yoho for "hiding behind his wife and daughters" in his speech the day before: |
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{{quote|Having a daughter does not make a man decent. Having a wife does not make a decent man. Treating people with dignity and respect makes a decent man. [...] I am someone's daughter, too. My father, thankfully, is not alive to see how Mr. Yoho treated his daughter. My mother got to see Mr. Yoho's disrespect on the floor of this House towards me on television. And I am here because I have to show my parents that I am their daughter and that they did not raise me to accept abuse from men.<ref>{{cite news |first=Barbara |last=Sprunt |date=July 23, 2020 |url=https://www.npr.org/2020/07/23/894596598/i-could-not-allow-that-to-stand-ocasio-cortez-rebukes-republican-for-vulgar-insu|title= 'I Could Not Allow That To Stand': Ocasio-Cortez Rebukes Republican For Vulgar Insult|website= [[NPR]]|accessdate= July 23, 2020}}</ref>}} |
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===Committee assignments=== |
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* '''[[United States House Committee on Financial Services|Committee on Financial Services]]'''<ref>{{cite news |url=https://thehill.com/policy/finance/425551-ocasio-cortez-to-join-house-panel-overseeing-financial-sector |title=Ocasio-Cortez to join House panel overseeing financial sector |work=The Hill |date=January 15, 2019 |last=Sylvan |first=Lane |author2=Scott Wong|access-date=January 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116045547/https://thehill.com/policy/finance/425551-ocasio-cortez-to-join-house-panel-overseeing-financial-sector|archive-date=January 16, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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** [[United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital Markets|Subcommittee on Investor Protection, Entrepreneurship and Capital Markets]] |
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** [[United States House Financial Services Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions|Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Financial Institutions]] |
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* '''[[United States House Committee on Oversight and Reform|Committee on Oversight and Government Reform]]'''<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-join-oversight-committee-1120002 |title=Ocasio-Cortez and liberal freshmen join Oversight Committee |work=Politico |date=January 22, 2019 |first=Andrew |last=Desiderio |author2=Heather Caygle|access-date=January 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123101811/https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-join-oversight-committee-1120002 |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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** [[United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties|Subcommittee on Civil Rights and Civil Liberties]] |
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** [[United States House Oversight Subcommittee on Environment|Subcommittee on Environment]] |
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==Political positions== |
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Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the [[Democratic Socialists of America]]<ref name=vox_2018-06-27>{{Cite news |first=Jennie |last=Neufeld |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/27/17509604/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democratic-socialist-of-america |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a Democratic Socialists of America member. Here's what that means. |work=Vox |date=June 27, 2018|access-date=December 2, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181203055430/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/27/17509604/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-democratic-socialist-of-america|archive-date=December 3, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> and embraces the [[democratic socialist]] label as part of her political identity. In an interview on NBC's ''Meet the Press'', she described democratic socialism as "part of what I am. It's not all of what I am. And I think that that's a very important distinction."<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/01/democratic-socialists-ocasio-cortez-689647 |title=Ocasio-Cortez discusses 'Democratic Socialist' label |last=Kullgren |first=Ian |date=July 1, 2018 |work=Politico |access-date=July 16, 2018 |quote=Democratic congressional nominee Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Sunday she embraces the 'Democratic Socialist' label but doesn't want to force other Democrats to do the same. 'It's part of what I am; it's not all of what I am,' Ocasio-Cortez said on 'Meet the Press' on NBC. 'And I think that's a very important distinction.' |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180716111701/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/01/democratic-socialists-ocasio-cortez-689647 |archive-date=July 16, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> In response to a question about democratic socialism ultimately calling for an end to [[capitalism]] during a ''[[Firing Line (TV series)|Firing Line]]'' interview on [[PBS]], she answered: "Ultimately, we are marching towards progress on this issue. I do think that we are going to see an evolution in our economic system of an unprecedented degree, and it's hard to say what direction that that takes."<ref name=hoover>{{cite interview |first=Alexandria |last=Ocasio-Cortez |interviewer=[[Margaret Hoover]] |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |url=https://www.pbs.org/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-barhhq/ |publisher=PBS |date=July 13, 2018|access-date= February 23, 2019 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180717083844/https://www.pbs.org/video/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-barhhq/ |archivedate=July 17, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Ocasio-Cortez supports [[Progressivism in the United States#Progressivism in the 21st century|progressive]] policies such as [[single-payer healthcare|single-payer Medicare for All]], [[Tuition-free college|tuition-free public college and trade school]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kaufman |first1=Dan |title=Progressive Populism Can Save Us From Trump |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/opinion/sunday/progressive-populism-wisconsin-trump.html |accessdate=January 20, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=July 7, 2018 |quote=The recent primary upset of Joe Crowley, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, showcased the electoral strength of her platform, which included single-payer health insurance and tuition-free college and trade school. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101041203/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/opinion/sunday/progressive-populism-wisconsin-trump.html |archive-date=January 1, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> a federal [[job guarantee]],<ref name="Jeff Stein campaigning">{{Cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/27/ocasio-cortez-beat-joe-crowley-campaigning-on-medicare-for-all-guaranteed-jobs-and-abolishing-ice/ |title=Analysis {{!}} What Ocasio-Cortez wants for America after beating Joe Crowley|last=Stein|first=Jeff|date=June 27, 2018|work=The Washington Post|access-date=June 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627144323/https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/06/27/ocasio-cortez-beat-joe-crowley-campaigning-on-medicare-for-all-guaranteed-jobs-and-abolishing-ice/|archive-date=June 27, 2018|url-status=live |issn=0190-8286}}</ref> the cancellation of all $1.6 trillion of outstanding [[student debt]],<ref>{{cite news |last=Cummings |first=William |date=June 24, 2019 |title=Bernie Sanders unveils plan to forgive $1.6 trillion in student loan debt |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2019/06/24/bernie-sanders-student-loan-debt-proposal/1544864001/ |work=[[USA Today]] |location=|access-date=June 25, 2019}}</ref> guaranteed family leave,<ref name="Suderman 2018">{{cite news |last1=Suderman |first1=Peter |title=How Republican Hypocrisy Lifts Social Democrats |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/social-democrats-republicans-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-.html |accessdate=January 20, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=August 2, 2018 |quote=Although true-blooded socialists—Democratic Socialists, to be precise—remain a relatively small niche within the Democratic Party, they are having a visible impact on the party's agenda, with nearly every likely 2020 presidential contender embracing Medicare for all. Bernie Sanders's 2016 campaign galvanized progressive support for the idea of Democratic Socialism, and this year, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has embraced not only the label but also a blue-sky vision of American socialism—free public college, a jobs guarantee, guaranteed family leave and more—unbound by moderate liberal worries about government overreach or overspending. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121121909/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/social-democrats-republicans-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-.html |archive-date=January 21, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> abolishing [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Goldmacher |first1=Shane |title=An Upset in the Making: Why Joe Crowley Never Saw Defeat Coming |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-crowley-primary-upset.html |accessdate=January 20, 2019 |work=The New York Times |date=June 27, 2018 |quote=She drew support for her progressive platform that included abolishing the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, Medicare for all and a federal jobs guarantee. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119144352/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/nyregion/ocasio-cortez-crowley-primary-upset.html |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> ending the [[Incarceration in the United States#Privatization|privatization of prisons]], enacting [[Gun politics in the United States|gun-control policies]],<ref name="Vox - top house democrat">{{Cite news |first=Kay |last=Steiger |date=June 27, 2018 |url=https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/26/17506970/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-primary-new-york |title=A top House Democrat just lost his primary – to a socialist |publisher=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] | access-date=June 27, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627023114/https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/6/26/17506970/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-crowley-primary-new-york |archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> and energy policy relying on 100% renewables.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/politics/ocasio-cortez-sunrise-justice-democrats-green-new-deal-next-steps/index.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, activist groups map out next steps in Green New Deal fight |publisher=CNN |quote=The idea of a Green New Deal has, in just a few months, become a central piece of Ocasio-Cortez's agenda and attracted the attention of ambitious national Democrats. |date=January 8, 2019 |author=Gregory Krieg|access-date=January 16, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190116100457/https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/08/politics/ocasio-cortez-sunrise-justice-democrats-green-new-deal-next-steps/index.html|archive-date=January 16, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>[[File:Sanders rally Council Bluffs IMG 3973 (49036404551).jpg|left|thumb|Sanders rally in Council Bluffs, Iowa]] |
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She is open to using [[Modern Monetary Theory]] (MMT) as an economic pathway that could provide funding and enable implementation of these goals.<ref name=deficit /> Ocasio-Cortez told [[Anderson Cooper]] that she favors policies that "...most closely resemble what we see in the U.K., in [[Norway]], in [[Finland]], in [[Sweden]]."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-rookie-congresswoman-challenging-the-democratic-establishment-60-minutes-interview-full-transcript-2019-01-06/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: The Rookie Congresswoman Challenging the Democratic Establishment |authorlink=Anderson Cooper |first=Anderson |last=Cooper |date=January 6, 2019 |work=CBS 60 Minutes|access-date=January 12, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190112183040/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-rookie-congresswoman-challenging-the-democratic-establishment-60-minutes-interview-full-transcript-2019-01-06/|archive-date=January 12, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Ocasio-Cortez endorsed [[Bernie Sanders]] in the 2020 presidential election and appeared with him at speaking engagements. Campaign rallies she attended with him drew the largest crowds of any presidential rally. On January 25, she joined [[Michael Moore]] to fill in for Sanders at a rally at the University of Iowa while Sanders was attending the Senate's Trump impeachment trial.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Nicosia |first1=Dominic |title=Speculation Of AOC's Presidential Run Goes Rampant As She Stumps For Sanders |date=December 27, 2019 |url=https://www.ibtimes.com/speculation-aocs-presidential-run-goes-rampant-she-stumps-sanders-2893070 |website=International Business Times |accessdate=January 27, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Walker |first1=Hunter |title=AOC and Michael Moore urge Iowa voters not to 'play it safe' as they stand in for Sanders |url=https://www.aol.com/article/news/2020/01/25/aoc-and-michael-moore-urge-iowa-voters-not-to-play-it-safe-as-they-stand-in-for-sanders/23908632/ |date=January 25, 2020 |website=Yahoo News |accessdate=January 27, 2020}}</ref> |
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===Environment=== |
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[[File:GreenNewDeal Presser 020719 (26 of 85) (46105848855).jpg|thumb|Ocasio-Cortez speaks on a Green New Deal in front of the Capitol Building in February 2019.]] |
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Ocasio-Cortez has called for "more environmental hardliners in Congress,"<ref name=InTheseTimes>{{Cite news |issn=0160-5992 |last=Aronoff |first=Kate |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Why She Wants to Abolish ICE and Upend the Democratic Party |work=In These Times |accessdate=January 27, 2019 |date=June 25, 2018 |url=http://inthesetimes.com/article/21236/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ice-new-york-cynthia-nixon-democrats| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181227151631/http://inthesetimes.com/article/21236/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ice-new-york-cynthia-nixon-democrats| archive-date = December 27, 2018| url-status=live}}</ref> describing [[climate change]] as "the single biggest national security threat for the United States and the single biggest threat to worldwide industrialized civilization."<ref name=CampaignWeb>{{cite web |last=Ocasio-Cortez |first=Alexandria |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Platform: Mobilizing Against Climate Change |publisher=Ocasio2018.com (campaign website) |accessdate=January 27, 2019 |year=2018 |url=https://ocasio2018.com/issues| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190116020452/https://ocasio2018.com/issues| archive-date = January 16, 2019| url-status = dead}}</ref> Referring to a recent [[United Nations]] [[Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 °C|report]] indicating that the effects of climate change will be irreversible unless carbon emissions are reined in over the next 12 years, she has argued that to avoid the end of human existence global warming must be addressed immediately.<ref>{{cite news |date=January 22, 2019 |last1=John |first1=Bowden |title=Ocasio-Cortez: 'World will end in 12 years' if climate change not addressed |url=https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/426353-ocasio-cortez-the-world-will-end-in-12-years-if-we-dont-address |newspaper=The Hill |accessdate=March 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305034141/https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/426353-ocasio-cortez-the-world-will-end-in-12-years-if-we-dont-address |archive-date=March 5, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="USATodayClimateEnd12Years">{{cite news |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/ |title='The world is going to end in 12 years if we don't address climate change,' Ocasio-Cortez says |last1=Cummings |first1=William |date=January 22, 2019 |newspaper=USA Today |accessdate=February 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190207104335/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2019/01/22/ocasio-cortez-climate-change-alarm/2642481002/|archive-date=February 7, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Nation12years">{{cite news |url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-climate-change-world-will-end-12-years-un-report-1300873 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns, 'World Is Going to End in 12 Years,' Reiterating Claims of Recent U.N. Climate Change Report |last1=Zhao |first1=Christina |date=January 22, 2019 |accessdate=February 23, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190224115757/https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-climate-change-world-will-end-12-years-un-report-1300873|archive-date=February 24, 2019|url-status=live |website=Newsweek}}</ref> |
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Ocasio-Cortez's environmental plan, termed the [[Green New Deal]], advocates for the United States to transition to an electrical grid running on 100% [[renewable energy]]<ref name="Friedman 2019">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/opinion/green-new-deal.html |title=The Green New Deal Rises Again |last1=Friedman |first1=Thomas |date=January 8, 2019 |work=The New York Times |accessdate=January 20, 2019 |quote=The Green New Deal that Ocasio-Cortez has laid out aspires to power the U.S. economy with 100 percent renewable energy within 12 years and calls for "a job guarantee program to assure a living wage job to every person who wants one", "basic income programs" and "universal health care", financed, at least in part, by higher taxes on the wealthy.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119220237/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/08/opinion/green-new-deal.html|archive-date=January 19, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> and to end the use of [[fossil fuel]]s within 10 years. The changes, estimated to cost roughly $2.5 trillion per year, would be financed in part by higher taxes on the wealthy.<ref name="ForbesGNDcost">{{cite news |last1=Ezrati |first1=Milton |title=The Green New Deal And The Cost Of Virtue |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/miltonezrati/2019/02/19/the-green-new-deal-and-the-cost-of-virtue/ |date=February 19, 2019 |website=Forbes |accessdate=March 5, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190226204348/https://www.forbes.com/sites/miltonezrati/2019/02/19/the-green-new-deal-and-the-cost-of-virtue/#782b6cd03dec |archive-date=February 26, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=November 24, 2018 |url=https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/417843-five-things-to-know-about-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal |title=Five things to know about Ocasio-Cortez's 'Green New Deal' |last1=Cama |first1=Timothy |newspaper=The Hill |accessdate=November 25, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181126140623/https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/417843-five-things-to-know-about-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal|archive-date=November 26, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sunrisemovement.org/green-new-deal |title=Sunrise Movement Green New Deal |publisher=Sunrise Movement |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181228130857/https://www.sunrisemovement.org/gnd/|archive-date=December 28, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She has described herself as having an "open mind" about the role of [[nuclear power]] in the Green New Deal.<ref>{{Cite web |first=Jacqueline |last=Toth |title=Ocasio-Cortez: Green New Deal 'Leaves the Door Open' on Nuclear |url=https://morningconsult.com/2019/05/06/ocasio-cortez-green-new-deal-leaves-door-open-nuclear/ |date=May 6, 2019 |website=Morning Consult |language=en-US|access-date=May 20, 2020}}</ref> |
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===Tax policy=== |
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Ocasio-Cortez proposed introducing a [[Marginal tax rate|marginal tax]] as high as 70% on income above $10 million to pay for the [[Green New Deal]]. According to tax experts contacted by ''[[The Washington Post]]'', this tax would bring in extra revenue of $720 billion per decade.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/04/ocasio-cortez-70-percent-tax-1080874 |title=Ocasio-Cortez floats 70 percent tax on the super wealthy to fund Green New Deal |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106011553/https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/04/ocasio-cortez-70-percent-tax-1080874 |archivedate=January 6, 2019 |first=Matthew |last=Choi |work=[[Politico]] |date=April 1, 2019 |accessdate=April 12, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/05/ocasio-cortez-wants-higher-taxes-very-rich-americans-heres-how-much-money-could-that-raise/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez wants higher taxes on very rich Americans. Here's how much money that could raise. |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105230343/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2019/01/05/ocasio-cortez-wants-higher-taxes-very-rich-americans-heres-how-much-money-could-that-raise/ |archivedate=January 5, 2019 |quote=With the help of tax experts, we produced some back-of-the-envelope estimates. |first=Jeff |last=Stein |work=[[The Washington Post]] |date=January 5, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez has opposed and voted against the [[PAYGO|pay-as-you-go]] rule supported by Democratic leaders, which requires deficit-neutral fiscal policy, with all new expenditures balanced by tax increases or spending cuts. She and Representative [[Ro Khanna]] have condemned the rule as hamstringing new or expanded progressive policies.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Slattery |first=Denis |date=January 2, 2019 |title=Ocasio-Cortez to vote against Pelosi rules package on first day in Congress over 'paygo' |work=New York Daily News |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-pelosi-rules-package-congress-paygo-20190102-story.html |url-status=live |access-date=January 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114153320/https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-pelosi-rules-package-congress-paygo-20190102-story.html |archive-date=January 14, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=McPherson |first=Lindsey |date=January 3, 2019 |title=House adopts rules package with few Democratic defections over PAYGO provision |work=Roll Call |url=https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/house-adopts-rules-package-democratic-defections-paygo-provision |url-status=live |access-date=January 14, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190114210205/https://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/house-adopts-rules-package-democratic-defections-paygo-provision |archive-date=January 14, 2019}}</ref> She cites [[Modern Monetary Theory]] as a justification for higher deficits to finance her agenda.<ref name=deficit>{{cite news |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ommt-modern-monetary-theory-how-pay-for-policies-2019-1 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the theory that deficit spending is good for the economy should 'absolutely' be part of the conversation |date=January 7, 2019 |first=Eliza |last=Relman |work=Business Insider |access-date=January 18, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174219/https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ommt-modern-monetary-theory-how-pay-for-policies-2019-1 |archive-date=January 19, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-01-17/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-s-big-ideas-for-taxes-and-medicare |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is the Darling of the Left, Nightmare of the Right |date=January 17, 2019 |publisher=Bloomberg |first1=Peter |last1=Coy |first2=Katia |last2=Dmitrieva |access-date=January 18, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190119120938/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-01-17/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-s-big-ideas-for-taxes-and-medicare |archive-date=January 19, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Drawing a parallel with the [[Great Depression]], she has argued that the Green New Deal needs deficit spending like the original New Deal.<ref name=InTheseTimes /> |
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===Immigration=== |
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Ocasio-Cortez has expressed support for defunding and [[Abolish ICE|abolishing]] the [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement]] (ICE) agency on multiple occasions. In February 2018 she called it "a product of the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|Bush-era]] [[Patriot Act]] suite of legislation" and "an enforcement agency that takes on more of a [[paramilitary]] tone every single day".<ref>{{cite news |first=Clio |last=Chang |url=https://splinternews.com/talking-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-woman-challe-1823967744 |title=Talking With Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Woman Challenging One of New York's Political Kingmakers |date=March 22, 2018 |publisher=[[Splinter News]]|access-date=June 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628153546/https://splinternews.com/talking-with-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-the-woman-challe-1823967744|archive-date=June 28, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |first=Jack |last=Holmes |date=June 28, 2018 |url=https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/28/fox-news-reminds-us-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-platform-ispretty-reasonable |title=Fox News Reminds Us Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Platform Is ... Pretty Reasonable |publisher=Common Dreams |access-date=July 12, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712222623/https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/06/28/fox-news-reminds-us-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-platform-ispretty-reasonable |archive-date=July 12, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> That June she said she would "stop short of fully disbanding the agency," and would rather "create a pathway to citizenship for more immigrants through decriminalization."<ref>{{cite web |first=Max |last=Siegelbaum |date=June 27, 2018 |url=https://documentedny.com/2018/06/27/early-arrival-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-in-upset-over-joe-crowley/ |title=Early Arrival: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins in upset over Joe Crowley |publisher=Documented NY|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180713010717/https://documentedny.com/2018/06/27/early-arrival-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-in-upset-over-joe-crowley/|archive-date=July 13, 2018|url-status=live |access-date=July 12, 2018}}</ref> She later clarified that this does not mean ceasing all deportations.<ref>{{cite tweet |user=ocasio2018 |number=1031926879752802304 |date=August 21, 2018 |title=#AbolishICE means not having an agency that incarcerates children and sexually assaults women with impunity. It does not mean abolish deportation. Also, I have no problem saying white supremacy has no place in this country. It's the GOP that struggles to say that. |accessdate=December 10, 2018}}</ref> Two days before the primary election, Ocasio-Cortez attended a protest at an [[U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement|ICE]] child-detention center in [[Tornillo, Texas|Tornillo]], Texas.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/623752094/who-is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez |title=Who Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez? |last=Neuman |first=Scott |date=June 27, 2018 |publisher=NPR|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627080006/https://www.npr.org/2018/06/27/623752094/who-is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez|archive-date=June 27, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=June 27, 2018}}</ref> She was the only Democrat to vote against H.R. 648, a bill to fund and reopen the government, because it funded ICE.<ref> |
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{{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Allan |title=Ocasio-Cortez is lone Democrat to vote against bill to reopen government |publisher=NBC News |accessdate=February 7, 2019 |date=January 24, 2019 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-lone-democrat-vote-against-bill-re-open-government-n962111| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190205002024/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-lone-democrat-vote-against-bill-re-open-government-n962111| archive-date = February 5, 2019| url-status=live}} |
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* ''For H.R. 648, see:'' {{cite web |title=H.R. 648 – Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2019 |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/648 |date=January 23, 2019 |publisher=Office of the Clerk. U.S. House of Representatives |url-status=live |access-date=February 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190209180240/https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/648|archive-date=February 9, 2019}}</ref> |
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In June 2019, Ocasio-Cortez compared the detention centers for undocumented immigrants at the [[Mexico–United States border]] to "[[concentration camps]]". She cited "expert analysis", linking to an ''[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]'' article quoting [[Andrea Pitzer]], author of ''One Long Night: A Global History of Concentration Camps'', who had made a similar claim.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 'concentration camp' debate, explained |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camp-debate-explained/ |website=Times of Israel |author=JTA |accessdate=June 25, 2019 |date=June 19, 2019}}</ref><ref name="CCampDebate">{{Cite web |url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-unimaginable-reality-of-american-concentration-camps |title=The Unimaginable Reality of American Concentration Camps |last=Gessen |first=Masha |work=New Yorker |date=June 21, 2019 |accessdate=June 23, 2019}}</ref> Some academics supported Ocasio-Cortez's use of the term for the forced detention of immigrants;<ref>{{cite web |last1=Hignett |first1=Katherine |title=Academics rally behind Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over concentration camp comments: 'She is completely historically accurate' |url=https://www.newsweek.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camps-immigrants-detention-centers-southern-border-experts-1445483 |website=[[Newsweek]] |accessdate=June 24, 2019 |date=June 24, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Lind-Guzik |first1=Anna |title=I'm a Jewish historian. Yes, we should call border detention centers "concentration camps." |url=https://www.vox.com/first-person/2019/6/20/18693058/aoc-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-concentration-camps-immigration-border |website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |accessdate=June 23, 2019 |date=June 20, 2019}}</ref> other figures strongly criticized it, saying it showed disrespect for [[Holocaust]] victims.<ref>{{cite news |title=Yad Vashem to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: Learn about concentration camps |first=Ilanit |last=Chernick |url=https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Yad-Vashem-to-AOC-Learn-about-concentration-camps-593059 |work=The Jerusalem Post |date=June 20, 2019}}</ref> In response to criticism from both Republicans and Democrats,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Stolberg |first1=Sheryl |title=Ocasio-Cortez Calls Migrant Detention Centers 'Concentration Camps,' Eliciting Backlash |date=June 18, 2019 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/18/us/politics/ocasio-cortez-cheney-detention-centers.html |website=The New York Times |publisher=The New York Times |accessdate=August 14, 2020}}</ref> Ocasio-Cortez said they had conflated concentration camps ("the mass detention of civilians without trial") with [[death camps]].<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rodrigo |first1=Chris |title=Ocasio-Cortez dismisses criticism from 'shrieking Republicans'|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449076-ocasio-cortez-defends-concentration-camp-comments |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |accessdate=June 24, 2019 |date=June 18, 2019}}</ref> She refused to apologize for using the term: "If that makes you uncomfortable, fight the camps, not the [[nomenclature]]."<ref>{{cite web |last1=Gstalter |first1=Morgan |title=Ocasio-Cortez stands by concentration camp remarks: 'I will never apologize' |url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/449348-ocasio-cortez-stands-by-concentration-camp-remarks-i-will-never-apologize-for |website=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] |accessdate=June 23, 2019 |date=June 19, 2019}}</ref> |
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In July 2019, Ocasio-Cortez visited migrant detention centers and other facilities in Texas as part of a congressional delegation to witness the border crisis firsthand. Ocasio-Cortez described conditions she called "horrifying." She said that women in one cell said they had not had access to showers for two weeks and were told to drink water from the toilet when their sink broke, and that one woman said that her daughters had been taken from her two weeks earlier and she did not know where they were.<ref>{{cite web |title=Border agents confiscated lawmakers' phones. Joaquin Castro captured photo and video anyway. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/02/ocasio-cortez-says-dispute-with-border-patrol-agents-started-after-one-tried-take-stealth-selfie/ |first1=Katie |last1=Mettler |first2=Mike |last2=DeBonis |first3=Reis |last3=Thebault |date=July 2, 2019 |website=The Washington Post |accessdate=July 2, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/07/02/migrant-children-detained-clint-border-patrol-station-congressional-hispanic-caucus/1625831001/ |title='Broken' and 'horrifying': AOC, Joaquin Castro, lawmakers visit Texas border facilities |website=USA TODAY |date=July 2, 2019 |last1=Villagran |first1=Lauren}}</ref> |
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===Healthcare=== |
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Ocasio-Cortez supports transitioning to a [[single-payer healthcare]] system, viewing medical care as a [[Human rights|human right]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-talks-poverty-in-the-us-with-steven-colbert.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: In a modern, moral, wealthy society, no person should be too poor to live |last=Clifford |first=Catherine |date=June 29, 2018|access-date=June 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180629221816/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/29/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-talks-poverty-in-the-us-with-steven-colbert.html|archive-date=June 29, 2018|url-status=live |publisher=CNBC}}</ref><ref name="This is the platform">{{Cite news |first=John |last=Haltiwanger |date=January 4, 2019 |url=https://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-platform-on-the-issues-2018-6 |title=This is the platform that launched Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Democratic socialist, to the biggest political upset of the year |work=Business Insider |access-date=June 30, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180630025045/http://www.businessinsider.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-platform-on-the-issues-2018-6 |archive-date=June 30, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref> She says that a single government health insurer should cover every American, reducing overall costs.<ref name="Jeff Stein campaigning" /> Her campaign website says, "Almost every other developed nation in the world has [[Universal health care|universal healthcare]]. It's time the United States catch up to the rest of the world in ensuring all people have real healthcare coverage that doesn't break the bank."<ref name="This is the platform" /> The Medicare-for-all proposal has been adopted by many Democratic 2020 presidential contenders.<ref name="Suderman 2018" /> |
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===Anti-poverty=== |
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In September 2019, Ocasio-Cortez introduced an anti-poverty policy proposal (packaged in a bundle called "A Just Society") that would take into account the cost of [[childcare]], [[Health care in the United States|health care]], and "new necessities" like [[Internet access]] when measuring poverty. The proposal would cap annual rent increases and ensure access to social welfare programs for people with [[conviction]]s and undocumented immigrants.<ref>{{cite news |last=Inskeep |first=Steve |url=https://www.npr.org/2019/09/25/763793482/rep-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wants-america-to-talk-about-poverty |title=Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants America To Talk About Poverty |work=[[NPR]] |date=September 25, 2019 |accessdate=September 26, 2019}}</ref> According to the U.S. Census, about 40 million Americans live in poverty. |
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[[File:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @ SXSW 2019 (46438135835).jpg|thumb|Ocasio-Cortez at SXSW 2019]] |
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===LGBTQ equality=== |
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Ocasio-Cortez is a proponent of [[LGBT rights|LGBTQ rights]] and [[LGBT equality|LGBTQ equality]]. She has said she supports the [[LGBTQ community]] and thanked its members for their role in her campaign.<ref>{{Cite news |first=Eve |last=Hartley |date=June 27, 2018 |url=https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lgbt-win/ |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thanks LGBT community after landmark win |publisher=PinkNews |access-date=July 6, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180706161747/https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-lgbt-win/ |archive-date=July 6, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Vox - top house democrat" /> She publicized and later appeared on a [[video game live stream]] to help raise money for [[Mermaids (charity)|Mermaids]], a UK-based charity for trans children.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aaron-sorkin-graham-linehan-h-bomberguy-donkey-kong-twitch-stream.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Spent Her Weekend Dunking on Aaron Sorkin and Raising Money for Trans Kids |last=Dessem |first=Matthew |date=January 21, 2019 |publisher=Slate |access-date=January 21, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190121232832/https://slate.com/culture/2019/01/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-aaron-sorkin-graham-linehan-h-bomberguy-donkey-kong-twitch-stream.html |archive-date=January 21, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> At the January 2019 New York City [[2019 Women's March|Women's March]] in [[LGBT culture in New York City|Manhattan]], Ocasio-Cortez gave a detailed speech in support of measures needed to ensure LGBTQ equality in the workplace and elsewhere.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://thegavoice.com/news/aoc-gives-powerful-pro-lgbtq-speech-at-nyc-womens-march/ |title=AOC Gives Powerful Pro-LGBTQ Speech at NYC Women's March |first=Katie |last=Burkholder |date=January 22, 2019 |accessdate=February 17, 2019}}</ref> She has also made a point of recognizing [[transgender]] rights, specifically saying, "It's a no-brainer ... trans rights are civil rights are human rights."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thecut.com/2019/01/ocasio-cortez-joins-charity-twitch-stream-for-trans-youth.html |work=thecut.com |publisher=[[New York (magazine)|New York]] |date=January 21, 2019 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Casually Joins Gaming Livestream For a Good Cause |first=Amanda |last=Arnold |accessdate=April 12, 2019}}</ref> |
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At the House Committee on Oversight and Reform on February 27, 2020, Ocasio-Cortez argued for LGBTQ equality in the context of her religious background. Referencing a Catholic hospital that refused a [[hysterectomy]] for a transgender man,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Avery |first1=Daniel |title=Court Rules Transgender Man Can Sue Hospital That Canceled His Hysterectomy |url=https://www.newsweek.com/transgender-man-sue-hospital-evan-minton-1460664 |website=Newsweek |accessdate=February 28, 2020 |date=February 28, 2020}}</ref> she argued, "[t]here is nothing holy about rejecting medical care of people, no matter who they are, on the grounds of what their identity is. There is nothing holy about turning someone away from a hospital."<ref>{{cite web |last1=DeMarche |first1=Edmund |title=Ocasio-Cortez says Jesus would be maligned in Congress |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-says-jesus-would-be-maligned-in-congress |website=Fox News |accessdate=February 28, 2020 |date=February 28, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Rep AOC's Speech on Personal Faith at Admin's Religious Liberties Assault on LGBTQ Rights |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuvEzMybwus |website=YouTube |publisher=Oversight Committee}}</ref> |
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===Puerto Rico=== |
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Ocasio-Cortez has called for "solidarity with [[Puerto Rico]]." She has advocated for granting Puerto Ricans further civil rights, regardless of Puerto Rico's legal classification. She advocates for voting rights and disaster relief. Ocasio-Cortez was critical of [[FEMA]]'s response to [[Hurricane Maria]] and the federal government's unwillingness to address [[political status of Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico's political status]].<ref name="Puerto Rico Report">{{Cite news |url=https://www.puertoricoreport.com/is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-for-statehood/ |title=Is Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for Statehood? |date=June 27, 2018 |publisher=Puerto Rico Report|access-date=July 4, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180705003216/https://www.puertoricoreport.com/is-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-for-statehood/|archive-date=July 5, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She believes the federal government should increase investment in Puerto Rico.<ref name="Vox - top house democrat" /> |
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=== Self-censorship of U.S. companies === |
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{{Seealso|Blitzchung controversy|Overseas censorship of Chinese issues}} |
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Ocasio-Cortez criticized the American companies [[Activision Blizzard]] and [[Apple Inc.|Apple]] for censoring pro-democracy [[2019–20 Hong Kong protests|protesters in Hong Kong]].<ref>{{cite news |title=AOC and Ted Cruz call out Apple for dropping Hong Kong app in joint letter |url=https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/18/20921300/rebulicans-democrats-blizzard-apple-china-hong-kong-app-censorship |first=Colin |last=Lecher |work=The Verge |date=October 18, 2019}}</ref> She co-signed a letter to Activision Blizzard CEO [[Bobby Kotick]] that read, "As China amplifies its campaign of intimidation, you and your company must decide whether to look beyond the bottom line and promote American values—like freedom of speech and thought—or to give in to Beijing’s demands in order to preserve market access."<ref>{{cite news |title=Lawmakers condemn Apple, Activision Blizzard over censorship of Hong Kong protester |url=https://thehill.com/policy/technology/466507-bipartisan-lawmakers-condemn-apple-activision-blizzard-over-censorship-of |first=Tal |last=Axelrod |work=The Hill |date=October 18, 2020}}</ref> |
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===Other domestic issues=== |
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On [[Education in the United States|education]], Ocasio-Cortez campaigned in favor of establishing tuition-free public colleges and trade schools. She has said she is still paying off student loans herself and wants to cancel all student debt.<ref name="This is the platform" /> |
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On June 28, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez told CNN she would support the [[Impeachment of Donald Trump|impeachment of President Trump]], citing Trump's alleged violations of the [[Title of Nobility Clause|Emoluments Clause]] and stating that "we have to hold everyone accountable and that no person is above that law."<ref>{{cite news |agency=Tribune News Service |url=https://www.sfexaminer.com/national-news/primaries-upend-political-landscape-ahead-of-midterm-elections-and-could-spell-trouble-for-trump/ |title=Primaries upend political landscape ahead of midterm elections and could spell trouble for Trump |date=June 27, 2018 |work=[[San Francisco Examiner]]|access-date=June 28, 2018 |publisher=[[Tribune News Service]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628015406/http://www.sfexaminer.com/primaries-upend-political-landscape-ahead-midterm-elections-spell-trouble-trump/ |archive-date=June 28, 2018 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-impeach-trump-678821 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she supports impeaching Trump |last=Nelson |first=Louis |date=June 27, 2018 |work=[[Politico]]|access-date=June 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180628184726/https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-impeach-trump-678821|archive-date=June 28, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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Ocasio-Cortez opposed a planned deal by New York City to give [[Amazon (company)|Amazon.com]] $3 billion in state and city [[Subsidy|subsidies]] and [[tax break]]s to build secondary headquarters ([[Amazon HQ2]]) in an area near her congressional district, saying that the city should instead invest the $3 billion in their district themselves.<ref name="NBCNewsVideo">{{Cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-york-politicians-odds-over-amazon-s-decision-pull-out-n971741 |title=NY politicians at odds over Amazon's decision to pull out of Queens |last=Fieldstadt |first=Elisha |publisher=NBC News |quote="If we’re willing to give away $3 billion for this deal, we could invest those $3 billion in our district ourselves if we wanted to. |date=February 14, 2019 |accessdate=June 14, 2019}}</ref><ref name="YNewsFeb2019">{{Cite web |url=https://news.yahoo.com/ocasio-cortez-fires-back-at-critics-of-her-amazon-opposition-004802491.html |title=Ocasio-Cortez fires back at critics of her opposition to Amazon deal |last=Knowles |first=David |work=Yahoo News |quote=$500+ million of the deal was capital grants. $2.5 billion in tax breaks. It’s fair to ask why we don’t invest the capital for public use, + why we don’t give working people a tax break. |date=February 20, 2019 |accessdate=June 14, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-new-york-democrats-criticize-amazon-hq2.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and New York Democrats criticize Amazon HQ2 |last=Pramuk |first=Jacob |date=November 13, 2018 |publisher=CNBC|access-date=February 14, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190228155020/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/13/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-and-new-york-democrats-criticize-amazon-hq2.html|archive-date=February 28, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> Some [[Conservatism in the United States|right-wing]] commentators criticized her remarks on the grounds that they implied she did not understand that "New York does not have $3 billion in cash."<ref>{{Cite news |first=Marc A. |last=Thiessen |date=February 21, 2019 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-an-economic-illiterate--and-thats-a-danger-to-america/2019/02/21/ee8c58d8-35f1-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html |title=Opinion | Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is an economic illiterate — and that's a danger to America |website=Washington Post}}</ref> |
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===Foreign policy=== |
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==== Israel ==== |
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In May 2018, Ocasio-Cortez criticized the [[Israel Defense Forces]]' use of deadly force against Palestinians participating in the [[2018 Gaza border protests]], calling it a "massacre" in a tweet.<ref>{{cite news |first=Allison |last=Kaplan Sommer |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-democrat-who-slammed-israel-wins-new-york-primary-1.6218292 |title=Democrat Who Slammed Israel for Gaza Killings Is Shock Winner of New York Primary |date=June 27, 2018 |work=[[Haaretz]]|access-date=June 27, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627103125/https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-democrat-who-slammed-israel-wins-new-york-primary-1.6218292|archive-date=June 27, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> In a July 2018 interview with the [[PBS]] series ''[[Firing Line (TV series)|Firing Line]]'', she said she is "a proponent of a [[two-state solution]]"<ref name=hoover/> and called Israel's presence in the [[West Bank]] an "[[Israeli occupation of the West Bank|occupation of Palestine]]."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.newsweek.com/ocasio-cortez-slams-israeli-occupation-walks-it-back-i-am-not-expert-1029386 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sparked outrage after condemning Israel's "occupation" of Palestinian territory |last=Da Silva |first=Chantal |date=July 18, 2018 |website=Newsweek|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190106010257/https://www.newsweek.com/ocasio-cortez-slams-israeli-occupation-walks-it-back-i-am-not-expert-1029386|archive-date=January 6, 2019|url-status=live |access-date=January 6, 2019}}</ref> Her use of the term "occupation" drew backlash from a number of pro-Israel groups and commentators.<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-vs-the-right-fox-news-social-media |title="I Think A Lot of Them Can't Hide Their Misogyny": How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez De-Fanged The Fox News Haters |last=Nguyen |first=Tina |date=November 26, 2018 |work=Vanity Fair|access-date=January 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190127000853/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-vs-the-right-fox-news-social-media|archive-date=January 27, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=July 17, 2018 |url=https://www.timesofisrael.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-criticizes-israel-for-the-occupation-of-palestine/ |title=Ocasio-Cortez criticizes 'occupation of Palestine', but admits she's no expert |last=Dunst |first=Charles |newspaper=The Times of Israel |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181119235924/https://www.timesofisrael.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-criticizes-israel-for-the-occupation-of-palestine/ |archive-date=November 19, 2018 |url-status=live |access-date=December 18, 2018}}</ref> Others defended her remarks, citing the United Nations' designation of the territory in the West Bank as occupied.<ref>{{cite news |first=Harriet |last=Agerholm |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/alexandria-ocasiocortez-israel-palestine-occupation-us-west-bank-outrage-us-a8450781.html |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez prompts outrage for accurately referring to Israel's 'occupation' of Palestinian territory |date=July 17, 2018|access-date=January 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180818173024/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/alexandria-ocasiocortez-israel-palestine-occupation-us-west-bank-outrage-us-a8450781.html|archive-date=August 18, 2018|url-status=live |newspaper=The Independent}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |first=Batya |last=Ungar-Sargon |date=July 16, 2018 |url=https://forward.com/opinion/405682/what-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-really-thinks-about-israel/ |title=Opinion {{!}} What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Really Thinks About Israel|newspaper=The Forward|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190105162854/https://forward.com/opinion/405682/what-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-really-thinks-about-israel/|archive-date=January 5, 2019|url-status=live |access-date=January 6, 2019}}</ref> In July 2019, Ocasio-Cortez voted against a House resolution introduced by Democratic Congressman [[Brad Schneider]] of Illinois condemning the Global [[Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions|Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions]] Movement targeting Israel.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/428179/congress-bds-aoc-tlaib-omar/ |date=July 24, 2019 |title=Here Are The 17 Members Of Congress Who Voted Against Condemning BDS |last=Pink |first=Aiden |website=The Forward|access-date=July 25, 2019}}</ref> The resolution passed 398–17.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-resolution/246 |title=H.Res.246 - 116th Congress (2019-2020): Opposing efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and the Global Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement targeting Israel. |last=Schneider |first=Bradley Scott |date=July 23, 2019 |website=www.congress.gov|access-date=July 25, 2019}}</ref> |
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Ocasio-Cortez warned that Israel's planned [[proposed Israeli annexation of the West Bank|annexation]] of [[Palestinian territories]] in the occupied West Bank "would lay the groundwork for Israel becoming an apartheid state."<ref name="cortez-israel"/> She wrote to U.S. Secretary of State [[Mike Pompeo]] that she will work to "pursue legislation that conditions the $3.8 billion in U.S. military funding to Israel to ensure that U.S. taxpayers are not supporting annexation in any way."<ref name="cortez-israel">{{cite news |title=Ocasio-Cortez raises AIPAC ire over effort to tie Israel aid to annexation |first=Holly |last=Otterbeing |accessdate=August 20, 2020 |url=https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/city-hall/story/2020/06/30/ocasio-cortez-raises-aipac-ire-over-effort-to-tie-israel-aid-to-annexation-1296133 |work=Politico |date=June 30, 2020}}</ref> [[American Israel Public Affairs Committee|AIPAC]] condemned the letter, saying it threatened the US-Israel relationship.<ref>{{cite news |title=US Democrats, rights groups warn against West Bank annexation |first=William |last=Roberts |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2020/06/democrats-rights-groups-warn-west-bank-annexation-200630211014602.html |work=Al Jazeera |date=July 1, 2020}}</ref> |
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==== Saudi Arabia and Yemen proxy war==== |
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Ocasio-Cortez voted to withdraw U.S. military aid for [[Saudi Arabian-led intervention in Yemen|Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/yemen-war-saudi-arabia-house-vote-resolution-37-ro-khanna-paul-ryan/ |title=The House Vote to End Support for the War on Yemen Shows How Much Has Changed |last=Carden |first=James |date=February 14, 2019 |work=The Nation|access-date=August 2, 2019}}</ref> She criticized President Trump's administration for escalating [[Iran–United States relations#2019 escalation in tensions|tensions with Iran]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ocasio-cortez-tells-white-house-to-put-down-its-saber-and-call-tehran |title=Ocasio-Cortez tells White House to 'put down its saber,' and negotiate with Iran |last=DeMarche |first=Edmund |date=June 21, 2019 |work=Fox News|access-date=August 2, 2019}}</ref> |
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==Political endorsements== |
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In January 2020, Ocasio-Cortez announced the formation of a PAC called [[Courage to Change]],<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-pac-courage-to-change_n_5e1abaebc5b650c621dfcb12 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's New PAC Is Already Raising Big Money |last=Marans |first=Daniel |date=January 12, 2020 |website=HuffPost |language=en|access-date=February 22, 2020}}</ref> which announced its first endorsements of progressive Democrats on February 21, 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/aoc-announces-new-pac-endorses-slate-progressive-candidates-congress-n1140306 |title=AOC announces new PAC, endorses slate of progressive candidates for Congress |first=Rebecca |last=Shabad |publisher=NBC News |date=February 21, 2020 |accessdate=April 11, 2020}}</ref> Some progressive commentators subsequently criticized Ocasio-Cortez for having only endorsed two Democratic primary challengers by March 3. A notable omission was [[Cori Bush]] who had received an endorsement from Ocasio-Cortez two years prior.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.politico.com/states/new-york/albany/story/2020/03/29/the-new-aoc-divides-the-left-1269548 |title=The 'new' AOC divides the left |first1=Alex |last1=Thompson |first2=Holly |last2=Otterbein |publisher=Politico |date=March 30, 2020 |accessdate=April 11, 2020}}</ref> |
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==Electoral history== |
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| title = New York's 14th congressional district Democratic Primary, 2018 |
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change |
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| candidate = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |
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| party = Democratic Party (United States) |
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| votes = 16,898 |
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| percentage = 56.7 |
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change |
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| candidate = [[Joseph Crowley]] (incumbent) |
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| party = Democratic Party (United States) |
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| votes = 12,880 |
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| percentage = 43.3 |
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| votes = 29,778 |
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| percentage = 100.0 |
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| title = [[2018_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_York#District_14 | New York's 14th congressional district General Election, 2018]] |
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change |
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| candidate = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez |
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| party = Democratic Party (United States) |
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| votes = 110,318 |
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| percentage = 78.2 |
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change |
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| candidate = Anthony Pappas |
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| party = Republican Party (United States) |
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| votes = 19,202 |
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| percentage = 13.6 |
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| candidate = ''Joseph Crowley'' |
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| party = Working Families Party |
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| votes = 8,075 |
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| percentage = 5.7 |
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| candidate = ''Joseph Crowley'' |
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| party = Women's Equality Party (New York) |
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| votes = 1,273 |
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| percentage = 0.9 |
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| candidate = [[Joseph Crowley]] (incumbent) |
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| party = Total |
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| votes = 9,348 |
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| percentage = 6.6 |
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change |
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| candidate = Elizabeth Perri |
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| party = Conservative Party of New York State |
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| votes = 2,254 |
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| percentage = 1.6 |
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{{Election box total no change |
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| votes = 141,122 |
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| percentage = 100.0 |
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|winner = Democratic Party (United States) |
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| title = New York's 14th congressional district Democratic Primary, 2020<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/06/23/us/elections/results-new-york-house-district-14-primary-election.html |title=New York Primary Election Results: 14th Congressional District |work=New York Times | date=August 17, 2020 |accessdate=September 22, 2020}}</ref> |
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change |
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| candidate = Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (incumbent) |
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| party = Democratic Party (United States) |
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| votes = 46,577 |
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| percentage = 74.6 |
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change |
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| candidate = [[Michelle Caruso-Cabrera]] |
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| party = Democratic Party (United States) |
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| votes = 11,337 |
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| percentage = 18.2 |
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change |
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| candidate = Badrun Khan |
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| party = Democratic Party (United States) |
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| votes = 3,119 |
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| percentage = 5.0 |
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}} |
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change |
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| candidate = [[Sam Sloan]] |
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| party = Democratic Party (United States) |
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| votes = 1,406 |
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| percentage = 2.3 |
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}} |
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{{Election box total no change |
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| votes = 62,439 |
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| percentage = 100.0 |
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==Awards and honors== |
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The [[MIT Lincoln Laboratory]] named the [[asteroid]] [[23238 Ocasio-Cortez]] after her when she was a senior in high school in recognition of her second-place finish in the 2007 [[Intel International Science and Engineering Fair]].<ref name="Malloy Rising"/><ref name="NASA"/> Ocasio-Cortez was named the 2017 National Hispanic Institute Person of the Year by [[Ernesto Nieto]].<ref name="NHI Person of the Year" /> In 2019, Ocasio-Cortez received the [[Adelle Foley Award]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.pen-oakland.org/awards-winners |title=PEN Oakland Awards & Winners |date= |website=PEN Oakland |language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=March 26, 2020}}</ref> She was named as one of the 2019 [[BBC 100 Women]].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/466199-ocasio-cortez-thunberg-and-rapinoe-make-bbcs-100-most-inspiring |title=Ocasio-Cortez, Thunberg, Rapinoe make BBC's 100 most inspiring women of 2019 |last=Folley |first=Aris |date=October 16, 2019 |website=The Hill |language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=February 23, 2020}}</ref> |
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==Personal life== |
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Following the death of Ocasio-Cortez's father in 2008, her mother and grandmother relocated to [[Florida]] due to financial hardship.<ref name="Vivian Wang Giant Slayer" /><ref name="Huffpo - 5 reasons" /> She still has family in [[Puerto Rico]], where her grandfather was living in a nursing home<ref name="Puerto Rico Report" /> before he died in the aftermath of [[Hurricane Maria]].<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/my-grandfather-died-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-slams-trump-puerto-rico-pr-tweet/1821994/ |date=September 14, 2018 |title='My Grandfather Died': Ocasio-Cortez Slams Trump's PR Denial |publisher=NBC New York|access-date=September 29, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180929233312/https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/My-Grandfather-Died-Alexandria-Ocasio-Cortez-Slams-Trump-Puerto-Rico-PR-Tweet-493285661.html |agency=Associated Press |archive-date=September 29, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> She has said, "to be Puerto Rican is to be the descendant of... African [[Moors]] [and] [[Slavery in the Spanish New World colonies|slaves]], [[Taíno|Taino Indians]], Spanish colonizers, Jewish refugees, and likely others. We are all of these things and something else all at once—we are ''[[Boricua]]''."<ref name=Goldmacher/> |
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Ocasio-Cortez discussed her [[Catholic faith]] and its impact on her life and her campaign for [[Criminal justice reform in the United States|criminal justice reform]] in an article she wrote for ''[[America (magazine)|America]]'', the magazine of the [[Jesuit]] order in the United States.<ref>{{cite web |first=Alexandria |last=Ocasio-Cortez |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her Catholic faith and the urgency of a criminal justice reform |url=https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-her-catholic-faith-and-urgency-criminal |date=June 27, 2018 |accessdate=August 31, 2018 |newspaper=[[America (magazine)|America]] |quote=Innocence, in its mercy, partly excuses us from having to fully reckon with the spiritual gifts of forgiveness, grace and redemption at the heart of the [[Catechism of the Catholic Church|Catechism]]: I believe in the forgiveness of sins.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180627233436/https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2018/06/27/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-her-catholic-faith-and-urgency-criminal|archive-date=June 27, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref> At a December 2018 [[Hanukkah]] celebration in New York, she claimed that she has some [[Sephardic Jewish]] ancestry.<ref name=Jewish>Citations for Jewish ancestry: |
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* {{Cite news |last=Stanley-Becker |first=Isaac |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at Hanukkah celebration |work=The Washington Post |accessdate=January 26, 2019 |date=December 9, 2018 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/10/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-reveals-jewish-ancestry-hanukkah-celebration/| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20190119174813/https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/10/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-reveals-jewish-ancestry-hanukkah-celebration/| archive-date = January 19, 2019| url-status=live}} |
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* {{Cite news |last=Smith |first=Allan |title=Ocasio-Cortez reveals her Jewish heritage: 'I knew it! I sensed it!' |publisher=NBC News |accessdate=January 26, 2019 |date=December 10, 2018 |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-reveals-her-jewish-heritage-i-knew-it-i-n946041| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20181216005639/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/ocasio-cortez-reveals-her-jewish-heritage-i-knew-it-i-n946041| archive-date = December 16, 2018| url-status=live}} |
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* {{Cite news |first=Taly |last=Krupkin |date=December 10, 2018 |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-ocasio-cortez-claims-jewish-heritage-at-ny-event-my-family-were-sephardic-jews-1.6727455 |title=Ocasio-Cortez Shares Jewish Heritage at NY Event: 'My Family Were Sephardic Jews' |work=[[Haaretz]]|access-date=December 9, 2018 |quote=a very, very long time ago, generations and generations ago, my family consisted of Sephardic Jews.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181210054547/https://www.haaretz.com/amp/us-news/.premium-ocasio-cortez-claims-jewish-heritage-at-ny-event-my-family-were-sephardic-jews-1.6727455|archive-date=December 10, 2018|url-status=live}} |
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* {{Cite news |first= Cummings |last=William |date=December 11, 2018 |url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/12/11/ocasio-cortez-reveals-jewish-ancestry/2275410002/ |title= Incoming congresswoman Ocasio-Cortez reveals Jewish ancestry at New York Hanukkah event |work=[[USA Today]]|access-date=October 1, 2020}} |
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* {{Cite news |first= Ben |last=Sales |date=August 1, 2019 |url=https://www.sun-sentinel.com/florida-jewish-journal/fl-jj-ocasio-cortez-israel-anti-semitism-holocaust-sanders-20190807-20190801-ukn6meextnfdrearjx4ew2qzym-story.html |title= Ocasio-Cortez talks about Israel, anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and Bernie Sanders |work=[[Jewish Telegraphic Agency]]|access-date=October 1, 2020}} |
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During the 2018 election campaign, Ocasio-Cortez resided in [[Parkchester, Bronx]], with her boyfriend, web developer<ref>{{Cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/08/aocs-boyfriend-is-a-reminder-of-the-importance-of-a-supportive-partner |title=AOC's boyfriend is a reminder of the importance of a supportive partner |last=Mahdawi |first=Arwa |date=May 8, 2019 |work=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=September 12, 2019}}</ref> Riley Roberts.<ref name="Abigail Hess apartment">{{Cite news |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cant-afford-to-rent-an-apartment-in-dc.html |title=Youngest woman elected to Congress Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez can't afford an apartment in D.C. |last=Hess |first=Abigail |date=November 8, 2018 |publisher=CNBC|access-date=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181117233348/https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-cant-afford-to-rent-an-apartment-in-dc.html|archive-date=November 17, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=OcasioRoberts>{{cite web |url=https://www.vogue.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview-vogue-november-2018-issue |title=How Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Other Progressives Are Defining the Midterms |first=Irina |last=Aleksander |work=Vogue |date=October 15, 2018 |accessdate=November 17, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181116065645/https://www.vogue.com/article/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-interview-vogue-november-2018-issue|archive-date=November 16, 2018|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/everything-know-alexandria-ocasio-cortezs-155000127.html |title=Everything We Know About Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Boyfriend |work=Marie Claire |first=Katherine J. |last=Igoe |date=January 15, 2019 |accessdate=February 17, 2019}}</ref> |
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In 2020, Ocasio-Cortez was a guest judge on an episode of [[RuPaul's Drag Race (season 12)|''RuPaul's Drag Race'']].<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-guest-judge-rupaul-s-drag-race-n1136666 |title=Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to guest judge on 'RuPaul's Drag Race' |last=Griffith |first=Janelle |date=February 13, 2020 |website=NBC News |language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=April 16, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.teenvogue.com/story/aoc-rupauls-drag-race-guest-judge |title=We Know What Song "RuPaul's Drag Race" Queens Should Perform for AOC |last=Bergado |first=Gabe |date=February 13, 2020 |website=Teen Vogue |language=en|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=April 16, 2020}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
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* [[List of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States Congress]] |
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* [[List of Democratic Socialists of America who have held office in the United States]] |
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* [[Women in the United States House of Representatives]] |
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==External links== |
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* {{official website|https://ocasio-cortez.house.gov}} |
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* [https://www.ocasiocortez.com/ Campaign website] |
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* {{C-SPAN|109304}} |
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* [https://www.politifact.com/personalities/alexandria-ocasio-cortez/statements/by/ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's file] at [[Politifact]] |
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