Linda Sarsour: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is the Hope We Have Been Waiting For!

Tuesday was a big day for progressive Democrats. In New York, former Bernie Sanders organizer Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez defeated Rep. Joe Crowley. In Maryland, former NAACP chair Benjamin Jealous won the Democratic gubernatorial primary.

We speak to Linda Sarsour of MPower Change about what the victories mean for the Democratic Party.

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