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=== Israeli–Palestinian conflict ===
=== Israeli–Palestinian conflict ===
Ocasio-Cortez has criticized the use of deadly force by the [[Israel Defense Forces]] at the [[Israel–Gaza barrier]].<ref name=":5">{{cite news |title=Democrat Who Slammed Israel for Gaza Killings Is Shock Winner of New York Primary |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-democrat-who-slammed-israel-wins-new-york-primary-1.6218292 |work=[[Haaretz]] |date=June 27, 2018}}</ref> After 60 Palestinian protesters participating in the [[2018 Gaza border protests]] were killed, she tweeted, "This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such. No state or entity is absolved of mass shootings of protesters. There is no justification. Palestinian people deserve basic human dignity, as anyone else. Democrats can’t be silent about this anymore."<ref>{{cite news|last=Fisher|first=Alyssa|title=Democrat Who Upset NY Incumbent Called Violence At Gaza Border A 'Massacre'|url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/404188/progressive-democrat-who-upset-ny-incumbent-accused-israel-of-massacre-in/|date=June 27, 2018|work=The Forward|access-date=July 1, 2018}}</ref> She said many constituents, including Jewish Americans, "thanked" her for comparing the Gaza events to U.S. civil-rights protests like the [[Ferguson unrest]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://forward.com/news/national/404213/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-israel-democrat-future/|title=What It Means For Israel If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Democrats' Future|first=Aiden|last=Pink|work=[[The Forward]]|date=June 27, 2018|accessdate=July 3, 2018}}</ref>
Ocasio-Cortez has criticized the use of deadly force by the [[Israel Defense Forces]] at the [[Israel–Gaza barrier]].<ref name=":5">{{cite news |title=Democrat Who Slammed Israel for Gaza Killings Is Shock Winner of New York Primary |url=https://www.haaretz.com/us-news/.premium-democrat-who-slammed-israel-wins-new-york-primary-1.6218292 |work=[[Haaretz]] |date=June 27, 2018}}</ref> After 60 Palestinian protesters participating in the [[2018 Gaza border protests]] were killed, she tweeted, "This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such. No state or entity is absolved of mass shootings of protesters. There is no justification. Palestinian people deserve basic human dignity, as anyone else. Democrats can’t be silent about this anymore."<ref>{{cite news|last=Fisher|first=Alyssa|title=Democrat Who Upset NY Incumbent Called Violence At Gaza Border A 'Massacre'|url=https://forward.com/fast-forward/404188/progressive-democrat-who-upset-ny-incumbent-accused-israel-of-massacre-in/|date=June 27, 2018|work=The Forward|access-date=July 1, 2018}}</ref> She said many constituents, including Jewish Americans, thanked her for comparing the Gaza events to U.S. civil-rights protests like the [[Ferguson unrest]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://forward.com/news/national/404213/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-israel-democrat-future/|title=What It Means For Israel If Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Democrats' Future|first=Aiden|last=Pink|work=[[The Forward]]|date=June 27, 2018|accessdate=July 3, 2018}}</ref>


[[J Street]] President Jeremy Ben-Ami said that "we celebrate" a new generation of candidates like Ocasio-Cortez who oppose "the policies of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition" and want to see the U.S. play a "more constructive role" in the peace process.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jstreet.org/press-releases/j-street-statement-on-the-primary-victory-of-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/|title=J Street Statement on the Primary Victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez|date=June 27, 2018|website=jstreet.org|publisher=J Street|access-date=July 1, 2018 }}</ref>
[[J Street]] President Jeremy Ben-Ami said that "we celebrate" a new generation of candidates like Ocasio-Cortez who oppose "the policies of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition" and want to see the U.S. play a "more constructive role" in the peace process.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jstreet.org/press-releases/j-street-statement-on-the-primary-victory-of-alexandria-ocasio-cortez/|title=J Street Statement on the Primary Victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez|date=June 27, 2018|website=jstreet.org|publisher=J Street|access-date=July 1, 2018 }}</ref>

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
File:Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (official, high-resolution) (cropped).jpg
Ocasio-Cortez in 2017
Personal details
Born (1989-10-13) October 13, 1989 (age 34)
The Bronx, New York, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Other political
affiliations		Democratic Socialists of America
Alma materBoston University (B.A.)
Websiteocasio2018.com

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (pronounced [a.le.ksan.ˈdri.a o.ˈkas.jo korˈt̪es]; born October 13, 1989) is an American political activist, educator, community organizer and politician.[1] On June 26, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in New York's 14th congressional district, defeating the incumbent, Democratic Caucus Chair Joseph Crowley, in what has been described as the biggest upset victory in the 2018 midterm election season.[2][3][4][5][6] Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America and has been endorsed by various politically progressive organizations[7] and individuals.[8]

Early life and education

Ocasio-Cortez was born in the Bronx, New York City[9] on October 13, 1989, to Blanca Ocasio-Cortez (née Cortez) and Sergio Ocasio. Her father, an architect, was also born in the Bronx, while her mother was born in Puerto Rico.[10][11] Until age five, Ocasio-Cortez lived with her family in an apartment in Parkchester.[11] The family then moved to a house in Yorktown Heights, a suburb in Westchester County, where she lived until she left[when?] to attend college.[11]

From 2003 to 2007, Ocasio-Cortez attended Yorktown High School,[12] where she won second prize in the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair with a research project on microbiology. As a result, the Lincoln Laboratory at MIT named a small asteroid after her: 23238 Ocasio-Cortez.[13][14] In high school, she took part in the National Hispanic Institute's Lorenzo de Zalvala (LDZ) Youth Legislative Session. She later became the LDZ Secretary of State while she attended Boston University. Ocasio-Cortez had a John F. Lopez Fellowship.[15] During college, she was an intern in the immigration office of U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy.[16] She graduated fourth in her class[15] from Boston University in 2011 with a bachelor's degree in economics and international relations.[17]

Ocasio-Cortez says she has a working-class background and relates many of her political positions to it. When her father died of lung cancer[18] in 2008 without leaving a will, she became involved in a long probate battle to settle his estate. Of that experience, she has said that she learned "firsthand 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."[19] She credits seeing the treatment of her cousin by law enforcement, as well as her Catholic faith, for her desire to overhaul mass incarceration in the criminal justice system.[20]

Career

After college, Ocasio-Cortez moved back to the Bronx where she worked two jobs, as a bartender and as a waitress in a taqueria while her mother cleaned houses and drove school buses as they struggled to fight foreclosure of their home after her father died of cancer.[21] With financial backing from Sunshine Bronx Business Incubator, she established a publishing firm, Brook Avenue Press, that specializes in children's literature portraying the Bronx in a positive light.[22] Ocasio-Cortez was employed as an educator at the nonprofit National Hispanic Institute.[23] In this role, in 2017, she served as the Educational Director of the 2017 Northeast Collegiate World Series where she participated in a panel on Latino leadership.[15]

After finding out she had been purged from the New York voter rolls and could not vote in the 2016 primary, Ocasio-Cortez worked as an organizer for Bernie Sanders's 2016 presidential campaign.[24] After the general election, she traveled across America by car, visiting places like Flint, Michigan, and Standing Rock, and speaking to people affected by the human rights violations related to the Flint water crisis and the Dakota Access Pipeline.[25] In an interview she recalled her visit to Standing Rock as a tipping point, saying that before that she had felt that the only way to effectively run for office was if you had 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.[26]

2018 U.S. House campaign

Main article: United States House of Representatives elections in New York, 2018 § District 14

Ocasio-Cortez was among a slate of nationwide Justice Democrats'/Brand New Congress' candidacy announcements livestreamed on May 16, 2017.[27] In August 2017, she attended the Netroots Nation Conference in Atlanta, appearing on a panel with fellow candidates on "how to run a grassroots campaign that puts people above party".[28][29]

Ocasio-Cortez was endorsed by progressive and civil rights organizations such as MoveOn,[30] Justice Democrats,[31] Brand New Congress,[32] Black Lives Matter,[33] and Democracy for America,[24] and by gubernatorial candidate Cynthia Nixon, who was also challenging a longtime incumbent, Andrew Cuomo.[34] Two days before the primary election, Ocasio-Cortez attended a protest at a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) child-detention center in Tornillo, Texas.[35]

Ocasio-Cortez was the first person since 2004 to challenge the Democratic Caucus Chair, Joseph Crowley, in the Democratic primary. She faced a significant financial disadvantage, but said, "You can't really beat big money with more money. You have to beat them with a totally different game." Nearly 75 percent of her donations were small individual contributions, while less than 1 percent of Crowley’s contributions were.[19] The Ocasio-Cortez campaign spent $194,000 to the Crowley campaign's $3.4 million.[36]

Governor Cuomo endorsed Crowley, as did both of New York's U.S. Senators, Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand, as well as New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, 11 U.S. Representatives, 31 local elected officials, 27 trade unions, and progressive groups such as the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood, the Working Families Party, NARAL Pro-Choice America and Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America, among others.[37] California representative Ro Khanna, a Justice Democrat,[38] initially endorsed Crowley, later also endorsing fellow Justice Dem candidate Ocasio-Cortez in an unusual dual endorsement.[39]

Primary election

Ocasio-Cortez has not held elected office,[10] and her campaign video began with her saying "Women like me aren’t supposed to run for office."[40] She held several debates with Crowley, who was criticized for not showing up to one debate and sending a surrogate instead.[41] She received 57.13 percent of the vote to Crowley's 42.27 percent, defeating the 10-term incumbent by almost 15 percent.[42] Bernie Sanders congratulated her, saying, "She took on the entire local Democratic establishment in her district and won a very strong victory. She demonstrated once again what progressive grassroots politics can do."[6]

Time magazine called her victory "the biggest upset of the 2018 elections so far";[43] CNN made a similar statement.[3] 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."[24] The Guardian called it "one of the biggest upsets in recent American political history".[44] Her victory was especially surprising as she was outspent 18-1.[45] Merriam-Webster reported that searches for the word "socialism" spiked 1500 percent after her victory.[46] In a sign of her outsider status, as of 11 p.m. on election day Crowley had not phoned Ocasio-Cortez; she believed he did not have her phone number. Earlier in the evening, however, Crowley, an amateur guitarist, did play Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" at his election night watch party as a way of conceding defeat, dedicating it to Ocasio-Cortez.[47]

At 28 years old, Ocasio-Cortez is one of the youngest nominees for Congress. If elected, she would be the youngest woman ever elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. That distinction is currently held by New York Republican Elise Stefanik, who was elected at age 30 in 2014.[48][a] Ocasio-Cortez will be 29 at the start of the 116th Congress.

Several commentators noted the similarities between Ocasio-Cortez's victory over Crowley and Dave Brat's 2014 victory over Eric Cantor in the Republican primary for Virginia's 7th congressional district.[49][50] Like Crowley, Cantor was a high-ranking member in his party's caucus.[51]

Criticism of media coverage

Many journalists faulted the traditional national news media (with a few exceptions such as CBSN) for not identifying, or even recognizing, the newsworthiness of Ocasio-Cortez's campaign.[52][53] Brian Stelter wrote that progressive media outlets such as The Young Turks and The Intercept "saw the Ocasio-Cortez upset coming".[50] Margaret Sullivan said that traditional metrics of measuring a campaign's viability, like total fundraising, were contributing to a "media failure".[53] Wikipedia did not have an article on her until her electoral win,[54] and Ocasio-Cortez had barely appeared in print media coverage until then.[55] (The New York Times had, however, mentioned her in two positive editorials.) [56][57]

General election

Ocasio-Cortez will face Republican nominee Anthony Pappas in the November 6 general election.[58] Pappas, who lives in Astoria, is an economics professor at St. John's University. According to the New York Post, Pappas has not actively campaigned. He faces very long odds in any event due to the 14th's heavily Democratic bent;[59][60] the 14th has a Cook Partisan Voting Index of D+29 and contains six registered Democrats for every Republican.[61]

Political positions

Ocasio-Cortez is a self-described democratic socialist. She supports progressive policies such as Medicare for All, a job guarantee, tuition-free public college, ending the privatization of prisons, and enacting gun-control policies.[62]

Healthcare

Ocasio-Cortez supports transitioning to a single-payer healthcare system, calling healthcare a human right.[63][64] She says that a single government insurer should ensure that every American has insurance, while reducing costs overall.[65] On her campaign website, Ocasio-Cortez says "Almost every other developed nation in the world has 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."[64]

Education

Ocasio-Cortez campaigned in favor of tuition-free universities and public schools,[64] saying that "[f]or the cost of the GOP’s tax bill, we could forgive ALL the student loan debt in the United States.[64][66]

Universal jobs guarantee

Ocasio-Cortez supports a federal job guarantee, whereby unemployed Americans who want to work would be guaranteed a job if they are unable to find one.[65]

Israeli–Palestinian conflict

Ocasio-Cortez has criticized the use of deadly force by the Israel Defense Forces at the Israel–Gaza barrier.[67] After 60 Palestinian protesters participating in the 2018 Gaza border protests were killed, she tweeted, "This is a massacre. I hope my peers have the moral courage to call it such. No state or entity is absolved of mass shootings of protesters. There is no justification. Palestinian people deserve basic human dignity, as anyone else. Democrats can’t be silent about this anymore."[68] She said many constituents, including Jewish Americans, thanked her for comparing the Gaza events to U.S. civil-rights protests like the Ferguson unrest.[69]

J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami said that "we celebrate" a new generation of candidates like Ocasio-Cortez who oppose "the policies of Netanyahu’s far-right coalition" and want to see the U.S. play a "more constructive role" in the peace process.[70]

Impeachment of President Donald Trump

On June 28, 2018, Ocasio-Cortez told CNN she would support the impeachment of President Trump, saying, "I think that, you know, we have the grounds to do it." She cited Trump's violations of the Emoluments Clause.[71][72]

Immigration

Ocasio-Cortez supports abolishing the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, calling it "a product of the Bush-era Patriot Act suite of legislation" and "an enforcement agency that takes on more of a paramilitary tone every single day".[73] She has called immigration detention centers operated by the Department of Homeland Security "black sites", citing limited public access to those locations.[74]

Awards and honors

Ocasio-Cortez was named the 2017 National Hispanic Institute Person of the Year by Ernesto Nieto.[15]

Notes

  1. ^ Stefanik won the election at age 30. Prior to Stefanik, the youngest woman to win an election to Congress was Elizabeth Holtzman, who was 31 when she was first elected, in 1973.[48]

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