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“Minutes after starting her acceptance speech on election night, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the newly elected congresswoman from Queens, was surprised to hear groans.

“Whoa — room turned fast,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez joked.

She, along with everyone in the room, had noticed a news update that had flashed across one of the giant screens above the crowd: Democrats had narrowly lost the Senate race in Texas. Ms. Ocasio-Cortez took quick stock of the mood of the crowd and resumed speaking.

“What we need to do as well, is realize that these short-term losses do not mean we have lost in the long run,” she said. …”