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Andy Meek
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- It's been two years now since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won a stunning upset and secured herself a seat in the US House of Representatives.
- Next week, she'll face a challenger in the Democratic primary for New York's 14th congressional district seat -- former CNBC journalist Michelle Caruso-Cabrera.
- High-profile names on Wall Street are spending big to ensure AOC's defeat in the primary next week, on June 23.
New York congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has a particular talent you don't often see among freshman lawmakers like her as they're wrapping up their first term in Congress. It stems from the fact that the 30-year-old representative of New York's 14th congressional district, who's facing a primary challenger in next week's election, wields a bully pulpit that belies her novice status in Congress, such that she's been able to drive robust national conversations around everything from worker's rights to the excesses of Big Tech during her time in office so far.
That's something that's helped her continue growing a passionate constituency -- one that she remains deeply engaged with via her social media presence. At the same time, her opponents don't just dislike her in the same way that most of us may passively disagree with a politician whose views don't line up with our own. For pretty much the entirety of her time in Congress, AOC has been a regular (as in weekly, and sometimes daily) punching bag on Fox News broadcasts. She's only just now finishing up her first term in office, and yet people across the country are familiar enough with her that, as I noted here, there's a character in Netflix's new Steve Carell-led comedy Space Force who's meant to be a stand-in for her. And this week, we also learned something else about the strong feelings she elicits from people: Some of Wall Street's biggest names want her gone so badly, they're spending big to help a rival unseat her in the primary on June 23.
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