US elections: Democrat Ocasio-Cortez re-elected to the house of representatives

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Emma Teitel
Emma Teitel
Emma Teitel is an award-winning national affairs columnist with the Toronto Star who writes about anything and everything. She got her start at Maclean's Magazine where she wrote frequently about women's issues, LGBT rights, and popular culture.

The left one U.S. Deputy Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez re-to the house of representatives elected. The Democrat won the US Congress elections in the Federal state of New York against the Republican John Cummings.

Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter that it was the greatest honor, the greatest privilege and the greatest responsibility of your life, the 14. To serve congressional district in New York, and to fight for the working class families in the Congress: “Thank you, Bronx, and Queens, that you have not chosen me, despite the millions that have been spent against us, in the Parliament, and trusts that I will take care of you another Time,” wrote the 31-Year-old.

Of particularly expensive election campaign

Ocasio-Cortez is on her campaign, which is one of the most expensive house race this year. Overall, it cost according to the “Center for Responsive Politics” around $ 30 million. Ocasio-Cortez gathered more than 17.3 million dollars of donations to her opponent, the Republican John Cummings 9.6 million dollars.

AOC, as part of their adherents and followers, is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress, she is a Star of the democratic party. Again and again it was speculated that larger political career Ocasio-could aspire to Cortez. Speculation, whether or not you might be moving to your re-election success of a candidacy for a higher office in a recital, is not admitted in a recent Interview.

“I don’t know if I’ll really stay forever in the house or, should I actually stay in the house, as this task would look like,” she told the magazine “Vanity Fair” with reference to your well-defended seat in the U.S. house of representatives. “I can’t imagine that I will stay for the Rest of my life where I am”.

In their first term in Parliament Ocasio-Cortez received a lot of attention. Repeatedly, she had become a target for the Republicans, US President, Donald Trump had attacked again and again. In social media, it has numerous supporters among the liberal, left and progressive Users.

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