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   Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., was booted from the   
   progressive union-backed Working Families Party (WFP) ballot   
   line by a Queens judge, a blow to her potentially competitive   
   Democratic primary fight.   
      
   The freshman lawmaker was removed from the primary ballot after   
   receiving only 13 signatures from members of the progressive   
   group that has dubbed itself the "Tea Party of the left" -- two   
   short of what she needed to get on the ballot.   
      
   Now, she won’t be on the WFP ballot line in the November general   
   election, either, said Martin O'Connor, attorney for AOC's   
   Democrat opponent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera.   
      
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   “AOC has hurt working people of the Bronx and Queens with her   
   votes and creates disunity within our party," Caruso-Cabrera   
   told the New York Daily News. "No wonder why pro-union forces   
   don’t want her, and neither do our neighborhoods.”   
      
   Caruso-Cabrera said the leftist firebrand is out of touch with   
   the needs of her blue-collar district.   
      
   The Working Families Party is an independent political party   
   that cross-endorses progressive candidates through New York's   
   fusion voting system -- which allows endorsement across ballot   
   lines -- to press Democrats to the left and extract concessions   
   without being dismissed by voters as a spoiler.   
      
   Under fusion voting, multiple political parties can list the   
   same candidate, pooling the votes for that candidate.   
      
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   The WFP endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., in the 2016   
   election, and he described Working Families as “the closest   
   thing" to “my vision of democratic socialism.”   
      
   New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo had lowered the number of signatures   
   needed to qualify for the primary ballot to 15. Ocasio-Cortez   
   submitted 14 signatures, but one was thrown out because the   
   voter was a registered Democrat.   
      
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   New York Supreme Court Judge Phillip Hom ruled that Ocasio-   
   Cortez should be removed from the WFP ballot, where she would   
   have run unopposed.   
      
   Leaders of the Working Families Party vowed they would still   
   campaign for Ocasio-Cortez even after her removal from the   
   ballot.   
      
   “We believe the Congresswoman is the leader her district and   
   this country needs," said Sochie Nnaemeka, director of the state   
   party, who decried petition challenges amid the coronavirus   
   pandemic.   
      
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   Ocasio-Cortez and Caruso-Cabrera, a former CNBC anchor, are at   
   the front of the race for the Democrat primary in New York’s   
   14th Congressional District spanning through Queens and the   
   Bronx, trailed by a number of lesser-known candidates. Eight   
   Republicans are also vying for Ocasio-Cortez's seat, but whoever   
   wins the Democrat primary is essentially assured victory come   
   November in the deep-blue district.   
      
   Having a spot on the Working Families Party ballot would have   
   offered Ocasio-Cortez a glimmer of hope should she suffer a   
   defeat from Caruso-Cabrera.   
      
   New York's June 23 presidential primaries were reinstated last   
   week after previously being canceled due to coronavirus, but the   
   state attorney general appealed the reinstatement decision   
   Friday, according to New York City's News 1.   
      
   Local primaries will go on as scheduled on June 23.   
      
   https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-removed-union-backed-   
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