AOC says Democratic Socialists and Justice Democrats weren't responsible for her first election win: 'When it looked appealing enough, they jumped in'

• When AOC won her first House primary, she was a breakout star of the growing progressive movement.
• And there was an intense focus on the left-wing groups that had thrown their support behind her bid.
• But in the new book "The Squad," AOC said she didn't win solely on the efforts of those groups.

When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez first entered the national political discourse, she had just upset Rep. Joe Crowley of New York in a 2018 Democratic primary that had long been seen as a lock for the then-congressman, who at the time was the No. 4 House Democrat.