Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Easily Wins Reelection to Congress

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortezhas secured re-election to New York’s 14th Congressional District.

The Democratic representative made history in 2018 as theyoungest woman ever to win a seatin Congress. Since then, the 33-year-old progressive has lobbied for issues like equitable health care, affordable housing and immigration reform.

According to aCook Partisan Voting Index, the district was a positive 28 points in favor for Ocasio-Cortez, up five points from last year. She handily won re-election in her New York Seat against Republican challenger Tina Forte.

Ocasio-Cortez has been an outspoken representative since the start of her time in office.

The New York representative has also faced the wrath of Republican officials and supporters of former PresidentDonald Trump, some of whom stormed the Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021. She shared in a Septemberinterview withGQthat she feels there is “open hostility” against her in Congress.

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“I feel like everybody treated me like a one-term member of Congress, and they worked to make me a one-term member of Congress,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the interview. “There was a very concerted effort from the Democratic side to unseat me. And I felt a shift after my primary election, and it felt like after that election was the first time that more broadly the party started treating me like a member of Congress and not an accident.”

While she has noted a shift in how Democrats treat her, AOC toldGQthat she still feels “despised.”

“Others may see a person who is admired, but my everyday lived experience here is as a person who is despised,” she told the outlet. “Imagine working a job and your bosses don’t like you and folks on your team are suspicious of you. And then the competing company is trying to kill you.”

source: people.com