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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for president | Bhaskar Sunkara
The congresswoman can run a serious national campaign on the left and pull a movement in behind it. She should get in early In the summer of 2018, almost no one thought Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could beat Joe Crowley. Crowley was a 10-term incumbent, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, a man some thought would one day be speaker. A 28-year-old former bartender and democratic socialist was the longest of long shots to succeed him. But ever since she did, the political establishment has been trying to decide whether to take her seriously. For a while it decided not to . The Missouri representative Emanuel Cleaver said the Democratic caucus did not need her “ sniping ”, while the then senator Claire McCaskill dismissed her as a “ bright and shiny new object ”. Ocasio-Cortez seemed to enjoy the response. Asked on 60 Minutes whether she wanted people to underestimate her, she said : “Ab
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The congresswoman can run a serious national campaign on the left and pull a movement in behind it. She should get in early In the summer of 2018, almost no one thought Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could beat Joe Crowley. Crowley was a 10-term incumbent, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, a man some thought would one day be speaker. A 28-year-old former bartender and democratic socialist was the longest of long shots to succeed him. But ever since she did, the political establishment has been trying to decide whether to take her seriously. For a while it decided not to . The Missouri representative Emanuel Cleaver said the Democratic caucus did not need her “ sniping ”, while the then senator Claire McCaskill dismissed her as a “ bright and shiny new object ”. Ocasio-Cortez seemed to enjoy the response. Asked on 60 Minutes whether she wanted people to underestimate her, she said : “Ab
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According to The Guardian’s linked report, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez should run for president | Bhaskar Sunkara, The congresswoman can run a serious national campaign on the left and pull a movement in behind it. She should get in early In the summer of 2018, almost no one thought Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez could beat Joe Crowley. Crowley was a 10-term incumbent, the fourth-ranking Democrat in the House, a man some thought would one day be speaker. A 28-year-old former bartender and democratic socialist was the longest of long shots to succeed him. But ever since she did, the political establishment has been trying to decide whether to take her seriously. For a while it decided not to . The Missouri representative Emanuel Cleaver said the Democratic caucus did not need her “ sniping ”, while the then senator Claire McCaskill dismissed her as a “ bright and shiny new object ”. Ocasio-Cortez seemed to enjoy the response. Asked on 60 Minutes whether she wanted people to underestimate her, she said : “Ab
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