Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez declines to back Schumer in Senate leadership vote
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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) declined to back Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) as he prepares to seek his caucus’s support to become majority leader beginning in January. Asked by reporters outside the Capitol if she would back her home state’s senator for the top spot in the upper chamber given calls for new leadership in the party, Ocasio-Cortez said that would be up to members of the Senate. “I think that this is a sentiment that is seen in a lot of places,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “So how the Senate navigates that, that’s up to their decision.” Schumer, who will turn…
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