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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic primary in the 14th Congressional District of New York last month. (Mary Altaffer / AP)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Rep. Joseph Crowley, the 10-year incumbent she won in a Democratic congressional primary in New York, publicly spared Thursday if Crowley had been sincere in her promises to support her
Ocasio-Cortez, the self-proclaimed democratic socialist The 28-year-old who stunned the political establishment with her anger against Crowley last month, pulled a morning tweet in which she questioned her TV promise on the first night. to rally behind her.
Crowley certainly seemed sincere at the time. During his election watch night, he took a guitar and dedicated a version of "Born to Run" from Bruce Springsteen to Ocasio-Cortez
But on Thursday, Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter that Crowley had "drawn up" on three scheduled franchise calls and was now organizing a third-party challenge to keep his 14th seat of the Congress District.
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This latest charge results from a quirk in the New York election law that allows a candidate to compete for more than one nomination. While Crowley lost to Ocasio-Cortez in the Democratic primary, he prevailed the same night as the New York Working Families Party candidate – making him eligible for the competition in November.
Earlier this week, The New York Times reported that Crowley's name would remain on the ballot as a Working Families Party candidate, despite a request by the party's executive director to have him removed.
In response to Ocasio-Cortez Thursday, Crowley sought to quell the controversy. Alexandria, the race is over and the Democrats have to meet. I made sure that my support is clear and that I do not run. We have scheduled phone calls and your team has not followed. I would like to log in, but I'm not ready to voice my grievances on Twitter. https://t.co/hxEeWEpI2O
– Joe Crowley (@JoeCrowleyNY) 12 July 2018
