From cocktail waitress to insurgent Democrat victor. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez beat one of the party’s most senior congressman in a stunning New York election victory
Just one year before Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez unseated a powerful 10-term New York congressman to have a chance at becoming the youngest person in Congress, she was mixing cocktails at Flats Fix tacos and tequila bar in Manhattan.
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