Meet The Youngest Woman To Ever Be Elected To US Congress

vote to determine control of House featured significant milestones. candidates included 237 women, more than ever before. Among winners were youngest woman ever elected to Congress and several who broke racial or or barriers.

At 29, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez became youngest woman elected to Congress. Ocasio-Cortez h previously stated that she is still paying off her student loans and until recently h no health insurance. She shocked many in New York politics, including herself, when she came out of nowhere to defeat 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley in New York’s Democratic congressional primary last spring.

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victory me her national face of young, discontented Democrats — often women and minorities — trying to shove ir party to left. Ocasio-Cortez was born in Bronx but raised in suburban Westchester County. Her far died while she was a student at Boston University in 2008. She got her start in politics as an organizer for Sen. Bernie Sanders. She calls herself a “Democratic socialist” and supports a national $15 minimum wage and universal health care coverage.

She takes record for youngest woman elected to Congress from Rep. Elise Stefanik, a Republican representing upstate New York who was elected at age 30. American voters have elected many men in ir 20s to Congress. 29-year-old describes herself as an educator, organiser and working-class New Yorker who has worked with mors, waited tables and led classrooms. 

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Cortez was born to a mor from Puerto Rico and a far from South Bronz and was reportedly raised in a place where one's zip code determined ir destiny. She has promised to represent working families and work towards reducing rent rates, increasing incomes and ensuring health care that will be accessible to more people.