Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is a member of the United States Congress's House of Representatives from New York state.

Her supporters see her as an articulate, dedicated individual with a promising career. Some senior members of her party, the Democratic Party seem to see her as brash, impatient, and insufficiently deferential to their greater experience. Some of her Republican Party challengers have used sexist and demeaning language when referring to her.