Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won her Democratic primary against Michelle Caruso-Cabrera with 72.6% of the vote.
I am not a huge, or even a lukewarm, fan of AOC but it seems like those in her district like her.
Unlike so many times in the past, in which black people mostly marched and protested alone to demand recognition of their full humanity and citizenship, a multiracial and multigenerational protest army has taken to the streets over the last month. They’ve spread across all 50 states in places big and small, including historically all-white towns like Vidor, Texas, where as recently as 1993 a federal judge had to order its public housing integrated. Shortly after, white supremacists ran out of town the handful of black people who had moved in. That Vidor, Texas, which remains 91 percent white and 0.5 percent black, held a Black Lives Matter rally in early June. In countries as disparate as England, Brazil, Kenya and Turkey, crowds pumped fists and carried signs with George Floyd’s name.
And this month, a Monmouth University poll showed that 76 percent of Americans, and 71 percent of white Americans, believe that racial and ethnic discrimination is a “big problem” in the United States.
In case you missed it...Joe won the primary but got zero delegates. So he still barely has enough to win the nomination but only if all his delegates turn up to vote. In the meantime, they have to wait 8 days before counting the absentee ballots. I'm sure AOC will win but we don't know by how much. Only 3% of the population voted in this election...27,000. Originally Posted by the_real_BarleycornYou can only count the votes that were cast. Landslide victory for AOC. I remember you predicted that 3 of the 4 members of "The Squad" would not be reelected. Still standing by that prediction?