MO-01: Cori Bush's challenge
The night after the rally for Welder, Ocasio-Cortez traveled 250 miles to the east to campaign for Cori Bush, a nurse who became a prominent leader of the protests after the 2014 fatal police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. In the Democratic primary, Bush is running against Rep. William Lacy Clay, who has held the seat since 2001. Before then, his father, Bill Clay, had held the seat since 1969, helping create the Congressional Black Caucus during his tenure.
Bush’s campaign bears a resemblance to Ocasio-Cortez’s upset victory over Crowley: Both Missouri’s 1st District and New York’s 14th District are urban, majority-minority and safely Democratic. Clinton won 77 percent of the vote here in 2016.
It’s these districts that may prove most fruitful for progressive insurgents in the coming months of primaries. Beyond Bush’s challenge to Clay, women of color hope to upset longtime incumbents in a district in Boston and in Delaware’s Senate race. But each candidate will need to break decades-long strangleholds.
Bush’s rally with Ocasio-Cortez, conveniently on Bush’s birthday, was held at the Ready Room, a music venue in the city’s hipster-filled Grove neighborhood. The 500-strong crowd was majority-white in a district that is 49 percent African-American, and for a political event, the crowd was remarkably young.
Few of the attendees expressed real policy disagreements with Clay ― several pointed to Bush’s decision to reject corporate money, and one young woman noted Clay had recently sided with a developer in a dispute with the city of St. Louis. Mostly, they wanted a more activist approach from their representative – and more progressivism from the Democratic Party writ large.
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instead of up-and-coming Democratic congressional leaders. 