Suraj Patel and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez were the Democrats’ version of Tea Partiers in New York State. Both are exciting young minorities who challenged old, white, entrenched Democratic party leaders in congressional primaries on June 26.

Patel raised and spent $1.5 million according to pre-primary numbers from the Center for Responsive Politics, and Ocasio-Cortez raised a smaller, but still respectable $860,000.