{"id":1491536,"date":"2022-05-25T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T15:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1491536"},"modified":"2022-05-25T11:45:26","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T15:45:26","slug":"ocasio-cortez-melts-down-after-favored-candidate-fails-to-immediately-win-run-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ocasio-cortez-melts-down-after-favored-candidate-fails-to-immediately-win-run-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocasio-Cortez Melts Down After Favored Candidate Fails To Immediately Win Run-Off"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Focasio-cortez-melts-down-after-favored-candidate-fails-to-immediately-win-run-off%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1491536&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted her party\u2019s leaders after left-wing immigration attorney Jessica Cisneros failed to immediately defeat Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar in a heated primary.<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar, a nine-term incumbent, is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/election\/2022\/results\/texas\/democratic-runoff\/us-house-district-28\">leading<\/a> Cisneros by 177 votes in Texas\u2019 28th District as of Wednesday morning. Although Cuellar <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CuellarCampaign\/status\/1529325196448088064\">declared<\/a> victory early Wednesday, Cisneros has not yet conceded, and ballots will be <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SteveKornacki\/status\/1529412848069353472\">recounted<\/a>. Top Democrats, most notably Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Majority Whip James <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/news\/campaign\/3464209-clyburn-to-campaign-with-cuellar-ahead-of-texas-primary-runoff\/\">Clyburn<\/a>, supported Cuellar\u2019s campaign through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a0jHWnqb37I\">robocalls<\/a> and in-person events, while Ocasio-Cortez and Independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders endorsed Cisneros. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/02\/henry-cuellar-jessica-cisneros-texas-28-district\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Henry Cuellar And AOC-Backed Candidate Headed To Runoff In South Texas District)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Accountability isn\u2019t partisan. This was an utter failure of leadership,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1529303844030754816\">complained<\/a> of leadership\u2019s support for Cuellar.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u201c<span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Congress should not be an incumbent protection racket and sadly it is treated as such by far too many. The fact is those who fail their communities deserve to lose. They don\u2019t need rescuing from powerful leaders who state they fight for gun safety, the right to choose, and more,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1529305324951330816\">continued<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">TX28 is an extremely close race. If Cuellar wins, leadership\u2019s decision to go to the mat for a pro-NRA incumbent will be the reason why. If Cisneros pulls it out, they will have mobilized against a badly needed grassroots for Nov &#038; fought against a historic victory. And for what?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AOC\/status\/1529311901468983300?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Consistently <a href=\"https:\/\/progressivepunch.org\/scores.htm?house=house\">rated<\/a> one of the most <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govtrack.us\/congress\/members\/report-cards\/2019\/house\/ideology\">conservative<\/a> Democrat in the House of Representatives, Cuellar was the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/24\/henry-cuellar-one-democrat-against-womens-health-protection-act-abortion\/\">only<\/a> member of his party to oppose a <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/28\/democrats-further-roe-vote-womens-health-protection-act-abortion-bill\/\">bill<\/a> that would legalize abortion up to the moment of birth and eliminate conscience protections for healthcare providers. He has spoken out against the Biden administration\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/12\/joe-scarborough-henry-cuellar-border-migrant-crisis-seasonal-illegal-immigration\/\">handling<\/a> of the border crisis, and has an A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrapvf.org\/emails\/2018\/texas\/henry-cuellar-tx-28-general-election-email\/\">rating<\/a> from the National Rifle Association.<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, Cisneros received <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/06\/13\/justice-democrats-primary-moderates\/\">support<\/a> from the left-wing Justice Democrats and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/news\/politics\/2022\/05\/24\/election-results-abortion-key-in-henry-cuellar-jessica-cisneros-south-texas-primary\/\">NARAL Pro-Choice America<\/a>. She also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/texas-jessica-cisneros-broke-pledge-reject-oil-related-contributions-suggested-dismantle-ice\">called<\/a> for Congress to break up Immigration and Customs Enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Cuellar has claimed that Cisneros\u2019 left-wing record would allow Republicans more easily take the seat in November. Although he won re-election by <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Texas%27_28th_Congressional_District\">19<\/a> points in 2020, Joe Biden would have only <a href=\"https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2022\/04\/14\/south-texas-democrats-cuellar-vela-gonzalez\/\">defeated<\/a> Donald Trump in the district by seven points.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will face off against <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/28\/republican-female-candidates-elise-stefanik-elevate-pac\/\">Cassy Garcia<\/a>, a former staffer to Republican Sen. Ted Cruz, in the general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez blasted her party\u2019s leaders after left-wing immigration attorney Jessica Cisneros failed to immediately defeat Texas Rep. Henry Cuellar in a heated primary.Cuellar, a nine-term<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1491545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1491536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1491536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1491545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1491536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1491536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1491536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}