{"id":367186,"date":"2018-06-29T01:06:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-29T00:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nyc-elects-socialist-for-congress-whose-platform-catered-to-non-whites-wants-ice-abolished\/"},"modified":"2018-06-29T01:06:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-29T00:06:52","slug":"nyc-elects-socialist-for-congress-whose-platform-catered-to-non-whites-wants-ice-abolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/nyc-elects-socialist-for-congress-whose-platform-catered-to-non-whites-wants-ice-abolished\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Elects Socialist for Congress Whose Platform Catered to Non-Whites, Wants ICE Abolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>The future of the Democratic Party is suddenly more clear.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>Challenger <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ocasio2018?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Ocasio2018<\/a> toppled one of the top Democrats in Congress, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/repjoecrowley?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@repjoecrowley<\/a>, Tuesday night in their primary in the 14th District. The victory stunned even her, live on our channel. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NY1Politics?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NY1Politics<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fnK1O0bacz\">https:\/\/t.co\/fnK1O0bacz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RjuqHJpn1p\">pic.twitter.com\/RjuqHJpn1p<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Spectrum News NY1 (@NY1) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NY1\/status\/1011803347337252864?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 27, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>On Tuesday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old first-time candidate for office and member of the Democratic Socialists of America, defeated the incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley, a powerful Queens Democrat and one of his party&#8217;s most senior members in Washington. Ocasio-Cortez didn&#8217;t just defeat Crowley \u2013 she stomped him. With 88 percent of the vote counted, she led by nearly 4,000 votes out of 26,000 cast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BDpXYlNyGLE\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Crowley&#8217;s defeat has already been called the Democratic version of then-House Majority leader Eric Cantor&#8217;s\u00a0shock upset loss in 2014\u00a0to an obscure economics professor. It&#8217;s not a perfect comparison, but it&#8217;s useful all the same: Crowley and Cantor were both viewed as potential speakers of the House. Both had close ties to the corporate wings of their parties, especially the\u00a0finance industry. But while Cantor was caught off-guard by his challenger, Crowley spent big money in the final weeks and months of his primary race knowing that he faced a serious threat.<\/p>\n<p>Ocasio-Cortez represents in many ways the new face of progressive politics growing in strength on the left flank of the Democratic Party. She is a young&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/nyc-elects-socialist-for-congress-whose-platform-catered-to-non-whites-wants-ice-abolished\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of the Democratic Party is suddenly more clear. Challenger @Ocasio2018 toppled one of the top Democrats in Congress, @repjoecrowley, Tuesday night in their primary in the 14th District. The victory stunned even her, live on our channel. #NY1Politics https:\/\/t.co\/fnK1O0bacz pic.twitter.com\/RjuqHJpn1p \u2014 Spectrum News NY1 (@NY1) June 27, 2018 On Tuesday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-367186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=367186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}