AOC's Bernie Sanders endorsement and the law of unintended consequences
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has backed the Vermont senator’s presidential bid but there is a lesson in Mitt Romney’s 2012 run
Two years ago, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was a bartender and waitress who was generally unknown outside of New York City progressive activist circles. Today, as the Democratic US representative for New York’s 14th congressional district, she is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and one of the most famous politicians in the country. Celebrity is a major currency of power in American politics, so it was a big deal that over the weekend AOC (as she often is referred to) officially endorsed the Vermont senator Bernie Sanders for her party’s presidential nomination rather than frontrunner Elizabeth Warren, senator from Massachusetts. This endorsement may in fact have a critical impact on the presidential race, although not in the way that most media outlets are predicting.
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