House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) told reporters Wednesday that House Democratic Caucus Chair Joe Crowley’s (D-NY) stunning loss Tuesday to Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Democratic socialist, does not mean socialism is ascendant in the party as a whole.
Pelosi was asked if democratic socialism is "ascendant" in the Democratic Party and replied that it was not, characterizing Crowley’s district as “very progressive.”-- More....