AOC faces her own challenger and is backing progressive candidates in other contests.
New York's coronavirus-delayed primary is Tuesday — and it has the potential to throw a wrench into the power structure in the Democratic-controlled House — while in Kentucky there's a Democratic battle for the right to challenge Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in November.
Other progressives have followed Ocasio-Cortez's lead, with her fellow"Squad" member, Rep. Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts, and Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, both of them former presidential candidates, endorsing Bowman, as well. Ocasio-Cortez, meanwhile, is defending her own seat from a challenger who has been using some of her own tactics against her.
Statewide, over 1.6 million absentee ballots have been sent out, according to the state Board of Elections. In 2016, 115,000 people voted absentee in the presidential primary."Nobody knows what the outcomes will be, because there's no previous barometer for this in New York," he said."The answers are all in the mailboxes."
Booker has campaigned on racial injustice and inequity, and he has taken to the streets with Black Lives Matter demonstrators to protest the killing of Breonna Taylor, a Louisville woman who was shot dead in her apartment on March 13 by police executing a"no-knock" warrant.
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