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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has responded to The Post’s report of her getting a ride home from an event Sunday in a gas-guzzling, for-hire minivan — saying it belongs to her aunt. “I will have you know my tía was very upset that the ny post insulted her minivan,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted on Sunday night. “If they saw how many goldfish snacks were in this thing they’d say I was killing the ocean too.” The freshman congresswoman was caught on camera making her getaway from a St. Patrick’s Day parade in Queens on Sunday inside the white Chrysler Town & Country —...

Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Democratic nominee for New York State’s 14th congressional district November election Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said Congress being “80 percent male” created “blind spots in our legislation.” Partial transcript as follows: MARGARET BRENNAN: Last week on this program we had the man you defeated, the New York Congressman Joe Crowley and he congratulated you on your win. He said you very much deserved it. He also explained two factors he thought that were- were decisive here. One of them being the year of the woman, he called it, and also the timing of the primary. Are...

Insurgent Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wants to take her budding political career all the way to The White House, her mother told The Post on Wednesday. “Her aspiration is to be the president,” Blanca Ocasio-Cortez, 55, said at the candidate’s childhood home in the Bronx. “She has been thinking about politics since she was a teenager. She would read historical and political books old and new. She would engage in political discussions passionately.” Blanca, a 55-year-old secretary for a school in Florida, spent a few days campaigning with her daughter. She said Ocasio-Cortez’s upset victory over Congressman Joe Crowley was like...