The endorsement is the most high-profile among the candidates running in the Democratic primary to represent the 3rd Congressional District, which encompasses about half of Philadelphia and is considered one of the bluest districts in the nation. And it comes just days after Rabb announced that he will rally with Hasan Piker,<\/a> an influential and controversial streamer who is popular among young leftists.<\/p>\n Backing from Ocasio-Cortez is the latest sign that national progressives are coalescing around Rabb, a five-term state representative from Northwest Philadelphia.<\/p>\n He has been endorsed by the Congressional Progressive Caucus\u2019 political action committee<\/a> and has said that if he is elected to Congress, he would be a member of \u201cthe Squad,\u201d the House\u2019s left-wing faction, of which Ocasio-Cortez is a member.<\/p>\n Rabb\u2019s campaign said Ocasio-Cortez is expected to campaign in Philadelphia at some point before the May 19 primary election. <\/p>\n \u00bb READ MORE: Meet the 4 Democrats vying to replace Dwight Evans in Congress<\/a><\/p>\n His coalition is starkly different from those of his two more moderate opponents. State Sen. Sharif Street<\/a>, the former head of the state Democratic Party, has the backing of the Democratic City Committee, Mayor Cherelle L. Parker<\/a>, and the majority of the city\u2019s mainstream <\/a>Democrats<\/a>.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, physician Ala Stanford<\/a>, a first-time political candidate, has the support of three local sitting members of Congress, including retiring U.S. Rep. Dwight Evans,<\/a> who currently holds the 3rd District seat. U.S. Reps. Madeleine Dean and Chrissy Houlahan announced their endorsements for Stanford this week<\/a>. <\/p>\n She is also being backed by a Washington-based super PAC called 314 Action Fund, which supports \u201cpro-science\u201d candidates and recruits doctors to run for office. The group has spent more than $2.3 million on an advertising campaign to boost Stanford<\/a>.<\/p>\n Though Rabb has been endorsed by a bevy of progressives, the backing from Ocasio-Cortez stands out. She has endorsed only two other candidates this year.<\/p>\n In February, she backed Analilia Mejia in a 13-person primary<\/a> to fill the North Jersey congressional seat vacated by New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill<\/a>. Mejia won the primary and prevailed in a general election<\/a> earlier this month. Ocasio-Cortez also endorsed a progressive candidate in an Illinois congressional race who lost.<\/p>\n Rabb said in a statement that he is \u201chonored\u201d to have her support.<\/p>\n \u201cAlexandria Ocasio-Cortez is the standard-bearer of this generation of Congress for a reason,\u201d he said. \u201cHer vision for a multiracial working class has resonated from Queens to Philly to every part of this nation.\u201d <\/p>\n An endorsement from Ocasio-Cortez is seen as a way for candidates to unlock new fundraising opportunities. She has a national platform and the potential to reach thousands of small-dollar donors from outside the city.<\/p>\n Through the first three months of 2026, Rabb raised about $77,000 from small-dollar donors in a significant fundraising haul, according to the most recent campaign finance reports. Street and Stanford took in less than $15,000 each from small-dollar donors during the same period, according to an Inquirer analysis.<\/a><\/p>\n Rabb has also been endorsed by national organizations, including the <\/a>Working Families Party<\/a>, a progressive, labor-aligned third party. The group has spent about $45,000 on pro-Rabb literature, according to a campaign finance report filed last week.<\/p>\n More on the 3rd Congressional District race <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to article \u2022\u00a00:00 min U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the New York Democrat who is a face of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":174735,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[78345,69,71,70],"class_list":{"0":"post-174734","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-aoc-endorses-chris-rabb-congress","9":"tag-philadelphia","10":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","11":"tag-philadelphia-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/174735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"The](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/circle_outline_footer_light_theme.png\"\/)
<\/p>\n