AOC files for re-election in NYC’s dark blue constituency

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., filed for re-election on Thursday afternoon, just over two months after winning the last election.

According to recent filings with the Federal Election Commission, Ocasio-Cortez will run for re-election in New York’s Democratic-majority 14th congressional district.

In November, she won and beat Republican Tina Forte by a margin of 70.6% to 27.5%.

Ocasio-Cortez became a congresswoman in 2018 after upsetting her loss to incumbent Democrat Joseph Crowley in the district’s Democratic primary. In 2018, she won the district’s general election.

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On the morning of the election, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is campaigning for re-election on November 8, 2022 in the Woodside neighborhood of Queens, New York.
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While the progressive legislator supports progressive policies like Medicare for all, she is not afraid to fight back against President Biden to achieve those goals.

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. on October 23, 2019.
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In October 2022, Ocasio-Cortez criticized Biden during an episode of “Pod Save America” ​​for not including illegal immigrants in his pardon for people convicted federally of mere possession of marijuana.

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In this June 16, 2021 file photo, U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, NY, listens as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, CA, speaks during a news conference at the Capitol in Washington.
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“At least I can say with Hispanic voters that we never tried as a party. The Democratic Party has not tried in terms of Hispanic electorates. And I mean where is our dream law, where is our immigration reform. And even recently with President Biden’s marijuana executive order, I really applaud that he went there, but he released people who were convicted if they were convicted while they had no papers,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a podcast.