New York Congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio Cortez visited the First State to talk about progressive politics.
Ocasio Cortez was in Delaware to support U.S. Senate candidate Kerri Harris, who’s challenging incumbent Sen. Tom Carper in the Sept. 6th primary.
Ocasio Cortez said there’s lot of similarities between her House primary earlier this year - where she ousted a 10-term incumbent Democrat - and Harris’ campaign against Carper.
“We were both, you know, even the proportions by which we’ve been outspent were very similar, running really similar races on the same exact platform without taking corporate money," she said.
Harris said she’s trying to duplicate Ocasio Cortez’s strategy of educating and expanding number of people who plan to vote.
“We’ve changed the definition of viability to be quite honest," she said. "It used to be numbers, fully how much money you brought in. We’ve brought in people, which is far more important. And that’s what’s been moving us forward.”
Harris said she hasn’t accepted donations from corporate political action committees - while criticizing Carper’s acceptance of that money.
She adds that while Carper has outraised her, she has recruited more than 500 volunteers to knock on doors and turn out voters for Thursday’s election.
About 400 people turned out for the Newark event.
