The democratic socialist who won a June primary election to unseat the No. 4 Democrat in the House is apparently still working on responding to more than 1,000 media requests her campaign staff have received since her victory.
A spokesman for Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez told the Daily Beast’s Gideon Resnick that the campaign is “over 1,000 emails deep” with press requests one week after the 28-year-old defeated Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-N.Y.) in the June 26 Democratic primary.
Ocasio-Cortez responded to a tweet from Resnick, confirming the figure and adding that she faced another 600 unread text messages, some apparently including requests for interviews, on her personal phone.
{mosads}Ocasio-Cortez shocked Washington and New York political circles when she defeated Crowley, a 10-term congressman once considered a possible successor to House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), by double-digits despite polling that showed Crowley comfortably ahead.
The Bronx native is a former organizer for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s (I-Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign and faces a clear path to victory in November in New York’s reliably blue 14th District.