AOC to stump for Justin Pearson in Memphis
New York City Democratic Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has been campaigning across the country for several years now for other candidates as Democrats attempt to flip the U.S. House and Senate to solid Democratic majorities in the midterm elections. (Andrea Renault/STAR MAX/IPx 2025)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is coming to the city with two other Democratic U.S. House members. Meanwhile, House Judiciary Committee chairman Jim Jordan is endorsing state Sen. Brent Taylor in the companion Republican primary.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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