Things are going so well for insurgent Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that she’s winning primaries she didn’t even enter.
In addition to recently whipping longtime Queens Rep. Joseph Crowley in the 14th congressional district Democratic primary, Ocasio-Cortez also won the Reform Party write-in primary over Bronx Rep. Jose Serrano in the neighboring 15th congressional district.
Neither she nor Serrano were competing for the line.
Still, the city Board of Elections was set to certify Ocasio-Cortez’s write-in victory on Tuesday. A board spokeswoman wouldn’t immediately say just how many write-in votes Ocasio-Cortez received to defeat Serrano on the Reform Party line, but it wasn’t expected to be many.
While write-in votes are not unusual, someone actually winning a race she wasn’t running for is.