NEW: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has announced her first set of congressional endorsements for the upcoming 2020 election through a new political action cmte. that seeks to elect progressives to the US House and Senate.
She also said in a follow-up tweet that she wants to elect candidates who support major progressive proposals including her own Green New Deal.
Eastman is challenging Democratic Rep. Don Bacon in Nebraska and Newman is trying to defeat Democratic Rep. Dan Lipinski in Illinois’ primary. On Newman’s campaign website, she slams Lipiniski for voting against Obamacare and coverage for pre-existing conditions. Cisneros is trying to primary Democratic Rep. Henry Cueller in Texas and said on her website that Cueller is “Trump’s favorite Democrat.
Lopez is a community organizer who was born in Puerto Rico and is running in the Bronx. On Tzintzún Ramirez’s Senate campaign website, she makes clear that she doesn’t want donations from corporate PACs, lobbyists, corporations or other special interests. Gomez is also a community organizer and was the first LGBTQ Latina elected as president of San Diego’s city council.
The congresswoman’s spokesman for her re-election campaign, Corbin Trent, told NBC News that this is only the first batch of endorsements and Ocasio-Cortez plans to make more during the current cycle.
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