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    A Shocking Insurgent Victory in New York

    Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old democratic socialist, unseated a potential speaker of the House, Joe Crowley, in New York's primary on Tuesday.
    by Elaine Godfrey Jun 27, 2018 4 minutes
    Source: Scott Heins / Getty

    Less than a year ago, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was bartending and waiting tables in Manhattan to support her family. On Tuesday night, she unseated a potential speaker of the House, and is on her way to becoming the youngest woman in Congress.

    “We meet a machine with a movement,” Ocasio-Cortez told a TV reporter as returns from the primary election rolled in. “That is what we have done today.”

    Ocasio-Cortez, a Bronx-born member of the Democratic Socialists of America, 10-term incumbent Democrat Joe Crowley by a 15-point margin in New York’s 14th congressional district, which contains parts of Queens and the Bronx. It was by tea-party candidate Dave Brat.

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