Ocasio-Cortez on campaigning with Sanders: Progressive policies 'can win across the country'

The Hill ^ | 07/17/18 | Jacqueline Thomsen

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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.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

LOL. Equal justice before the GPs!! We don’t care who you are. There’s no two tier system here.

[PIF]

Progressive policies ‘can win across the country’

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Just look to Nicaragua to see haw those policies win ... airhead ..
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[Impy]

The more I think about the more I think this B won as much or more more because of her Hispanic name in an increasingly Hispanic district than because of her policies. Probably 10 or 20 people saw her signs with her Spanish name for every 1 person that actually knew what she stood for. Turnout was tiny so chalking this up to some progressive wave is highly questionable, most of these extreme-left candidates have gone up in smoke. The one that ran against Lipinski (as moderate as a Chi democrat could be) and spent a ton couldn’t even win.

Crowley is the Working Families nominee and doesn’t seem to be taking measures to get his name off (he’d have to accept a judicial nomination) but says he’s isn’t running anymore. If he wasn’t a little girl he would keep running and would have a good chance, his case is easier to make “turnout was very small, let everyone decide in November”.

Though of course it’s better for us to have this nut in there. In the grand scheme of things Crowley isn’t all that much more conservative.