When you’re under 30, taking the pressure of being defined as the promise of the Democratic Party of the United States can’t be easy, even more if the Party is still struggling to getting back on its feet after the major blow of the presidential election. But Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has kept true to her mission and triumphed at the midterm elections which were held on the 6th of November 2018 through which she became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Tornillo, Texas, in June 2018 while protesting the forced separation of migrant children from their parents, ordered by the Trump administration © Joe Raedle/Getty Images