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Democrats’ Anti-Wall Street Wing Just Won a Major Victory

  • Ocasio-Cortez was an organizer for Sanders’ 2016 campaign
  • Democratic socialist calls for reviving Glass Steagall Act
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NY Democratic Primary Upset Highlights Search for Fresh Leadership

The Democratic party’s anti-Wall Street wing won a major victory Tuesday.

New York voters denied longtime House Democratic Caucus chairman Joe Crowley an 11th term, instead backing 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a Democratic socialist and former organizer for Senator Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign.