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Political stunner! Crowley knocked off by millennial challenger | TheHill

posted onJune 27, 2018
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Article snippet: Longtime Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.), who’s been viewed as a potential House Speaker, is projected to lose the Democratic primary, a massive upset that will shake up the political world in New York and Washington. The Associated Press called the race around 9:50 p.m. EDT. With 88 percent of precincts reporting, Ocasio-Cortez was leading Crowley, 57.6 percent to 42.4 percent. Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old organizer for Sen. MORE’s (I-Vt.) presidential campaign, defeated Crowley in his deep-blue district that encompasses northwest Queens and the eastern Bronx. Crowley, who’s chairman of the House Democratic caucus, is the third incumbent to lose a primary this cycle, but the first sitting Democratic member to be defeated. This is the first time MORE (D-Calif.). And he's been a staple in New York City politics as chairman of the Queens County Democratic Party. Crowley congratulated Ocasio-Cortez on her primary victory, offering his support to her and took a jab at MORE. At his election night party, Crowley played Bruce Springsteen’s “Born to Run.” “The Trump administration is a threat to everything we stand for here in Queens and the Bronx, and if we don't win back the House this November, we will lose the nation we love,” Crowley said in a statement Tuesday night. “This is why we must come together. We will only be able to stop Donald Trump and the Republican Congress by working together, as a united Democratic Party." Trump also weighed in on ... Link to the full article to read more

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