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'Hugely compelling factor': AOC says Dems must learn midterm lesson from 2018 blue wave

Just as they did in 2024, Democrats lost the White House and both chambers of Congress in 2016. In a post to Bluesky, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, also known by her initials "AOC," noted that her party "elected the largest class to Congress since Watergate" in the 2018 midterms. "Fifty-two members of the 116th Congress — including 50 Democrats and 35 new members — pledged to reject money from corporate PACs before, during or soon after the 2018 election cycle," Opensecrets' Karl Evers-Hillstrom wrote. "Of the Democrat-dominated list, 32 members received little-to-no money — less than $10,000 each — from business-related PACs during the 2018 election cycle, according to new data from the Center for Responsive Politics." "If we want to beat a right wing that weaponizes public anger at Big Pharma to destroy the social safety net + spread conspiracies, we can’t run Dems who take money from Big Pharma."

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US midterm elections: What does the result mean for Democrats?
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