Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old socialist who beat a 10-term congressman in their Democratic primary to represent a congressional district in New York, has won another surprise election.
“Shockingly – and I’m told this is not a joke – we have ALSO won a primary in the neighboring 15th Congressional District via write-in campaign on the Reform line!” Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter late Tuesday.
“While I am honored that so many Bronxites are excited about our campaign, I will remain the Dem nominee for NY-14,” she continued.
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Shockingly – and I’m told this is not a joke – we have ALSO won a primary in the neighboring 15th Congressional District via write-in campaign on the Reform line!
While I am honored that so many Bronxites are excited about our campaign, I will remain the Dem nominee for NY-14. https://t.co/edidvU5sOr
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@Ocasio2018) July 11, 2018
Ocasio-Cortez won the Reform Party’s nomination to contest New York’s 15th Congressional District on Tuesday after a write-in election, in which she received nine votes, according to the New York Daily News. But she declined to run as the minor party’s candidate in that race as state law prohibits her from launching simultaneous bids for different offices.
Ocasio-Cortez will vie against Republican opponent Anthony Pappas, an economics and finance professor, in the general election for New York’s 14th Congressional District on Nov. 6 after her victory in June against House Democratic Caucus Chairman Joe Crowley, D-N.Y.
