Reps Kathleen Rice (L.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
After pushing the candidacy of Jamaal Bowman to defeat 16-term Democratic Congressman Eliot Engel, possibly the most pro-Israel lawmaker in Congress, Squad leader Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was beaten by Rep. Kathleen Rice from Nassau County, Long Island, in their struggle to take over Engel’s seat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee.
According to Politico, just before the Democratic Steering Committee voted on who gets into the Energy and Commerce slots, Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic leadership team circulated a slate of their candidates. And, you guessed it, AOC wasn’t included.