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  • Pritzker and Ocasio-Cortez: A billionaire and a former bartender emerge as Trump resistance leaders

    05/24/2025 4:41:30 PM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 45 replies
    AP News ^ | Updated 11:08 AM CDT, May 5, 2025 | BILL BARROW
    ATLANTA (AP) — The billionaire heir and the former bartender.Many Democrats have been in and out of the spotlight as the party looks for effective counters to President Donald Trump and his second administration. But two disparate figures, Gov. JB Pritzker of Illinois and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, have seen their national profiles rise by delivering messages that excite a demoralized and fractured party. The governor, a 60-year-old heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune, and the congresswoman, the 35-year-old with working-class roots, both won their first elections in 2018. Both have urged mass resistance and accused their party...