Mr. Starrett said they had lobbied for not spelling out her full name, but Ms. Ocasio-Cortez held firm. When Melquiades Gagarin began his own 2020 long-shot primary challenge for Congress in a Queens congressional district neighboring Ms. Ocasio-Cortez’s, his logo intentionally embraced the upward slope. Mr. Gagarin called it “an homage to the A.O.C. Splashed across his website was a photo of Mr. Gagarin gazing off into the distance, just as Ms. Ocasio-Cortez had in her signature posters. (Ms. Ocasio-Cortez declined an interview request for this article.)

Source: New York Times May 14, 2021 15:56 UTC