Rising star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wins primary in district she is not running in
Source: ABC News
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who scored a major political upset last month when she unseated powerful Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary for a New York City congressional seat, has also won the Reform Party primary as a write-in candidate in a different Bronx-based district over the incumbent Democratic, Rep. Jose Serrano.
Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-wins-primary-district-running/story?id=56499055
The wave is coming!
greyl
(22,990 posts)Can't believe ABC didn't include the vote totals.
My quote from: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-ocasio-cortez-serrano-crowley-reform-20180710-story.html
DeminPennswoods
(15,276 posts)would win, could she legally represent 2 districts? I don't know NY law, but I don't think you have to live in a CD to represent it.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)New York state law prevents candidates from running for two different offices simultaneously.
And that is what she'd be doing in November
DeminPennswoods
(15,276 posts)In Pennsylvania you can run for two different offices at the same time. If you don't get "promoted" by the voters, you can keep your current job. IIRC, Allyson Schwartz did this when she ran for Senate while still running for re-election in the House.
It would be an interesting to know if it is possible for 1 person to be elected in 2 different districts and serve both.
rpannier
(24,329 posts)So, she cannot
jmowreader
(50,552 posts)Youd wind up with these ultra-Republican states sending one loudmouth to cast 15 voted.
NOMOGOP
(87 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,276 posts)nt
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)okaawhatever
(9,461 posts)people made all this happen.
andytheteacher
(37 posts)She's got great progressive views, and I'd have voted for her in her district but her background is quite thin, she's not going to be a national party leader. Alexandria would get eaten alive by tough questions.
Abdul El-Sayed is a much better candidate to project nationally and he is equally progressive. If you are unfamiliar he's running in the MI Gov primary, currently 2nd or 3rd. Rhodes scholar, physician trained at Colombia, and as progressive as it gets.