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By Hunter Walker and Luppe B. Luppen
Normally, a number one win is only the first part of a campaign. But, in a deeply blue city like New York, where about 80% of the electorate votes Democratic, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s victory in June 2018 over incumbent party leader Array Joe Crowley, made her a presumptive member of Congress. The remote victory, combined with his youth and the quality of his decidedly stubborn, social media-driven campaign, unleashed a political supernova.
Throughout the rest of her election and her first year in office, liberal and conservative media elevated her into a main character in the ongoing political soap opera. She did the late-night talk show circuit and made the cover of Time magazine. Clips of her grilling witnesses in congressional hearings racked up millions of views online.
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