The daughter of Colombian and Dominican immigrants, Mejia ran on an adamantly anti–Donald Trump message and secured a whopping 70 percent of the vote as a result. The Associated Press called her victory shortly after the votes started rolling in.
70 percent… wow!
The progressive Democrat’s positions echo several of the policies that made Sanders a national phenomenon, including support for universal health care coverage, tuition-free college, student loan forgiveness programs, and strengthening unions and expanding labor protections in order to bolster America’s middle class.
She sounds like a Democrat who wants to win and is against genocide.
Mejia has also been vocal in her criticism of Israel, publicly denouncing the state’s war on Palestine as a genocide. That caught the attention of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, which funneled money into the race to bolster her opponents. In the end, the pro-Israel lobby’s efforts may have been one of the reasons that voters in New Jersey sent Mejia to Congress.
Awesome!
The screw up that your generation made was merely voting for the lesser evil, and not attempting to run and campaign for the furthest left people that would create real change. You don’t stop at voting for the lesser evil, you also push into the next election with the goal to shove them out
Which generation is this?
This has been going on for some time; lack of participation in primaries to result in poorer candidates. I recall around 2010 Americans being warned about poor participation, especially in primaries and midterms and the reaction was to be told that it was their right not to vote and to mind their own business. I’d say those who didn’t participate around then are probably more responsible than anyone else for the current Democrats.
At least to millennials and later Gen X this has been a thing, so it’s covered a couple of generations. I’d probably say even earlier, maybe. At least since Gingrich and Ryan held their positions and started obstructing.