SOCIAL EXPERIMENT: Many Queens business owners fled their native countries to escape socialism. Now they're coming out to support a candidate who champions it.

The article explores the support given by many business owners in Queens, New York, to democratic socialist and activist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in the 2018 midterm elections. Ocasio-Cortez defeated Representative Joe Crowley in the Democratic primary for the 14th District of New York. According to Soledad Murillo, president of the Queens Women's Chamber of Commerce, 1,500 Queens businesspeople and entrepreneurs will attend an event for Ocasio-Cortez.