Ocasio-Cortez politics will not win in midwest, says Duckworth

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at the ‘Families Belong Together’ march in New York on Saturday. As Democrats calibrate their political messaging in advance of the November midterm elections, Senator Tammy Duckworth cautioned her party not to become too starry-eyed about the success in New York of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who won an upset primary victory this week. While Ocasio-Cortez’s candidacy might have been a fit for New York’s 14th congressional district, said Duckworth, the junior senator from Illinois, her brand of Democratic socialism would not work in the midwest.

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July 02, 2018 at 02:38AM