WASHINGTON – WASHINGTON (AP) — Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has endorsed the Democratic primary challenger of a veteran House committee chairman and fellow New Yorker in her latest challenge to party leaders.
Ocasio-Cortez, who in less than two years has shot from obscurity to one of Congress' most recognized names and faces, announced late Wednesday that she was backing 44-year-old local educator Jamaal Bowman over Rep.
Eliot Engel, the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Engel, a 73-year-old liberal, is in his 16th House term and represents a district from parts of the Bronx and Westchester, next door to Ocasio-Cortez’s home base of the Bronx and Queens.