Emily Hill Emily Hill

AOC, America’s youngest congresswoman, has already been compared with FDR and JFK

The ‘Latina from the Bronx’ has taken the US by storm – but will she prove a nine-days wonder?

AOC has been called ‘the most talked about person in US politics’. So what’s her X-factor? [Alamy]

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