DE-SEN: Ocasio-Cortez stumps for fellow progressive Harris in Delaware's U.S. Senate race
Kerri Evelyn Harris, the progressive Democrat challenging three-term incumbent Tom Carper in Delaware’s U.S. Senate primary Thursday, hopes to catch lightning in a bottle and topple a politician with 13 straight electoral wins — the most in state history.
So to help boost her chances, Harris was joined on the campaign trail Friday by a fledgling New York City politician who this year has already ousted an incumbent.
Her stumping partner was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who became an overnight U.S. political sensation on June 26 when she trounced three-term incumbent U.S. Rep. Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary race to represent parts of Queens and the Bronx.
Harris helped her fellow progressive in that race, so the New Yorker returned the favor with visits to the University of Delaware and Kingswood Community Center in Wilmington.
“Kerri was there. She had my back, and I’m here to have hers because that’s how the progressive movement really works,” Ocasio-Cortez told the crowd of about 300 students and older residents at UD who showered the pair with applause.
Both women support a $15 minimum wage, Medicare for all and reforming the criminal justice and immigration systems. While the New Yorker favors free public universities, Harris supports free pre-K schooling.
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