'I don't think it's disrupting or a threat to party unity to ask us to uphold our values, what's in our charter, what's in our platform,' the freshman progressive told Newsweek.
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez isn't shying away from trying to unseat a fellow Democrat.
And the New York lawmaker—who was elected to Congress as the youngest woman at 29 years old last year after winning her primary against longtime incumbent and political heavyweight Joe Crowley—has no quarrels about backing someone who seeks to unseat a colleague, denying that her efforts could be construed as working against House Democrats' mission to operate with"party unity."
The response was aimed at House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer , who was questioned earlier in the day on the possibility of Ocasio-Cortez creating a strife within the caucus inof Democratic candidate Marie Newman, the primary challenger to the moderate Rep. Dan Lipinski . Lipinski is one of the more conservative House Democrats, having voted against Obama's Affordable Care Act and is against abortions. Still, Hoyer said there was"absolutely" room in the Democratic Party for members with stances such as Lipinski's.
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