It’s AOC’s Party Now: Bernie-Backed Far-Leftist Could Win Dem Nomination to Replace ‘Moderate’ Sherrill in NJ

If the results of a special election Thursday are any indication of where the Democratic Party is going, Republicans should be very scared indeed.

Thanks to an unusually heavy turnout by the left on primary election day, the race to replace now-New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill — a “moderate” Democrat who was the first to represent New Jersey’s historically Republican 11th Congressional District — might now involve a raging progressive with endorsements from New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and socialist Sen.