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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDE-SEN: Ocasio-Cortez stumps for fellow progressive Harris in Delaware's U.S. Senate race
Kerri Evelyn Harris, the progressive Democrat challenging three-term incumbent Tom Carper in Delawares U.S. Senate primary Thursday, hopes to catch lightning in a bottle and topple a politician with 13 straight electoral wins the most in state history.
So to help boost her chances, Harris was joined on the campaign trail Friday by a fledgling New York City politician who this year has already ousted an incumbent.
Her stumping partner was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who became an overnight U.S. political sensation on June 26 when she trounced three-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary race to represent parts of Queens and the Bronx.
Harris helped her fellow progressive in that race, so the New Yorker returned the favor with visits to the University of Delaware and Kingswood Community Center in Wilmington.
Kerri was there. She had my back, and Im here to have hers because thats how the progressive movement really works, Ocasio-Cortez told the crowd of about 300 students and older residents at UD who showered the pair with applause.
Both women support a $15 minimum wage, Medicare for all and reforming the criminal justice and immigration systems. While the New Yorker favors free public universities, Harris supports free pre-K schooling.
https://whyy.org/articles/ocasio-cortez-stumps-for-fellow-progressive-harris-in-delaware-u-s-senate-race/
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)I really want to like Ocasio-Cortez, but it's getting harder each day.
R B Garr
(16,979 posts)really work is very revealing.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)Nothing about policy and/or getting stuff done in the Senate and completely about personality and returning favors.
Demsrule86
(68,689 posts)have to wonder if she is burning bridges in her district...she has not won yet.
Bleacher Creature
(11,257 posts)Absent something crazy, she'll be in Congress next year and she'll need to start building coalitions to get anything done. Going after respected Democrats like Carper isn't helpful. He's not Joe Lieberman or Dan Lipinski.
OhioBlue
(5,126 posts)Primaries for mid-terms are being held after the conventions would be held in Presidential cycles. This seems late in today's age to me. IMHO - States need to move their primaries up.
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Hardly revolutionary.