Posted on 07/17/2018 8:32:53 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Democratic candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Tuesday that she believes progressive policies “can win across the country” as she prepares to campaign in red-state Kansas with possible 2020 candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).
Sanders told The Washington Post on Friday that the two progressive figures would travel to Kansas to campaign for congressional candidates James Thompson and Brent Welder.
“The political revolution is alive and well in Kansas,” Ocasio-Cortez said in the release officially announcing the trip.
“[Welder and Thompson] have committed the organizing power to show that if Democrats run on a clear, committed platform for working class Americans, while rejecting dark money, we can win,” she said. “I am proud to join Senator Sanders to let voters in Kansas know they have this option here at home.”
Sanders said in the release that Americans across the country "understand that we need a government that represents all of us, and not just billionaire campaign contributors."
"Candidates who run on a progressive agenda can and will win," he said.
Ocasio-Cortez, a self-described democratic socialist and an organizer during Sanders' 2016 presidential bid, sent shockwaves throughout the Democratic Party last month with her primary upset over top Democrat Rep. Joe Crowley (N.Y.).
Despite Ocasio-Cortez's new high profile, some House Democrats are expressing concerns about the Democratic candidate, fearing she could drive a wedge within the party by pushing policies from the left.
Bring it, oh clueless birdbrain.
People from South American 3 rd world hellholes always fall for Socialist BS... One more reason to deport ALL illegals.
It is a sign of the widening divide. Urban areas will elect further and further left wing candidates that are in no way compatible with red (irony) America. There will be a breaking point.
Oh, some of their CANDIDATES can win, since too many loons in this country love anti-Semite Communist-Fascists, but their policies ? They fail every time.
She’s got a high-pitched valley girl voice.
They ARE the “RED” America.
Alexandria obviously doesn’t know much about most of our country.
I think we’ve found someone dumber, and more obnoxious, than David Hogg.
People should shout , Scotch and Soda
Yeah, I know. When they rolled out the whole Red states Blue states thing, I think they didn’t want to call Democrats “red” because it would call attention to their socialism. More MSM propaganda.
Has this 28 year old ever been west of the Hudson?
She is a living embodiment of that old New Yorker cover that had a map of America and is was something like a giant New York and Los Angeles... and a very small nothing in the middle.
And, Leftist Racism=Truth To Power!
The biggest political revolution of all time kicked off in April 1775 and and culminated twelve years later with the writing of the world's greatest political document. We through off the yoke of kings and tyranny and decided that men should govern themselves. She wants to repeal that and return men to servitude to the state, the condition of all men before the American Revolution. Why commies think that rejecting freedom and liberty and reverting to the woeful history of enslaved mankind is a "revolution" is beyond me.
Election Night 2000. I urge everyone to reject that Orwellian newspeak propaganda. We’re not Reds. They are.
You won a deep blue district primary which had 20% turnout and you think you know what will win across the country????
You are an idiot.
“Threw off,” not “through off” you dolt.
Who are you calling a “dolt”?!
Because they are sick, twisted and evil control freaks who ultimately wish to murder 95% of the world’s population to bring about their dystopian utopia.
What do you expect from a megalomaniacal Red Stalinist ? Sanity ?
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