page_title: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
section_title: Media coverage
hierarchical_section_title: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez / 2018 campaign / Media coverage
caption_attribution_description: New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Photo: Ståle Grut / &lt;a href="https://nrkbeta.no" rel="noreferrer nofollow"&gt;NRKbeta&lt;/a&gt;
context_page_description: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known by her initials as AOC, is an American politician and activist. She became the U.S. Representative for New York's 14th congressional district in 2019. This includes the eastern part of the Bronx and parts of north-central Queens in New York City. She is a member of the Democratic Party.
  Ocasio-Cortez won the Democratic Party's primary election on June 26, 2018 when she Democratic Caucus Chair Joe Crowley. Her victory was a surprise and many saw it as an upset victory. In November 2018, she would go on to win the general election. She beat Republican nominee Anthony Pappas.
  At age 29, she became the youngest woman to become a member of the United States Congress. She is well known for her use of social media. She studied international relations and economics at Boston University. An activist, she worked for Bernie Sanders's first presidential campaign. She also worked part-time as a waitress and bartender before running for Congress in 2018.
  Ocasio-Cortez is one of the first female members of the Democratic Socialists of America elected to Congress.
context_section_description: The Young Turks (TYT) was the first media network who talked about Ocasio-Cortez and give her time to talk about her campaign. After her primary win, she quickly had media attention from everywhere in the country. A rally with Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders in Wichita had to be moved from a theater with a seating capacity of 1,500 when more people said they would go to the rally. 4,000 people went to the event, with some sitting on the floor. The New Yorker wrote that she had made Sanders's progressive ideas more popular to a larger group of people.
  Ocasio-Cortez had little media attention until she beat incumbent Joe Crowley in the 2018 Democratic primary. Many commentators saw how no one paid attention to her primary campaign and called it a "media failure."
  The Young Turks has continued to cover Ocasio-Cortez and defend her from political critics.
  She was one of the people talked about in the 2018 Michael Moore documentary Fahrenheit 11/9.
  Twitter user "AnonymousQ" tried to embarrass Ocasio-Cortez when they shared a video of her dancing during her college years. Many social media users defended her, and the video inspired memes. After the video was shared, Ocasio-Cortez posted a video of herself dancing to Edwin Starr's War.
  In 2019, Elizabeth Warren wrote about Ocasio-Cortez for that year's Time 100. In May 2019 the documentary Knock Down the House came out on Netflix. It is about four female Democrats, without political experience, running for Congress in the 2018 midterms premiered. Ocasio-Cortez was the only one of the women in the documentary to win their election.
caption: Ocasio-Cortez at the 2019 South by Southwest
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