Posted on 06/28/2018 8:23:42 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The mother of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said that the 28-year-old democratic socialist aspires to eventually sit in the Oval Office.
“Her aspiration is to be the president,” Blanca Ocasio-Cortez told the New York Post in a report published Thursday.
“She has been thinking about politics since she was a teenager. She would read historical and political books old and new,” her mother said. “She would engage in political discussions passionately.”
The 55-year-old mom and school secretary told the local publication she spent several days helping her daughter campaign against 10-term incumbent Rep. Joseph Crowley (D) for New York’s 14th District congressional seat.
It was like “fighting Goliath,” Blanca Ocasio-Cortez said of the race just days after the shocking upset.
“She is fighting for our community. She is fighting for the working class. She is fighting for immigrants,” Blanca Ocasio-Cortez said, adding her daughter knows firsthand what its like to experience financial hardships in her family, which she says helps more voters relate to her.
“We can relate to that,” her mother added. “We are working class. We did struggle. We know what struggle means.”
Ocasio-Cortez shocked the political by unseating Crowley in the Democratic primary.
The former organizer for Sen. Bernie Sanders's (I-Vt.) presidential campaign was given little chance to topple Crowley, who is the chairman of the House Democratic Caucus, but picked up steam after a campaign video went viral last month.
The newly-minted Democratic nominee will face Republican Anthony Pappas in the general election in November.
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“She has been thinking about politics since she was a teenager.”
LOL!! Obama thought about peace one time and won a Nobel for it. So who knows?
She says president. I hear dictator.
Can we see her birth certificate ?
A socialist shouldn’t be tolerated to be in any high office.
God help us.
““Her aspiration is to be the president,”
Of Venezuela.
She promises gazillions but declines to say how she will pay for it all. Anyone here from that District? Does the Pubbie stand a chance? If not, her election to the House will drive more people from the Dem Party. But at least she is honest, unlike most Dems running.
The radical leftist covered with a veneer of modernist, multi-racial, midwest normalcy worked only once to put the empty-suit Obama into office. It won’t work again.
They’ll have to come up with some other marketing scheme
Well, that's nice. My aspiration is to become the King of Spain. I wonder whose dream will come true first.
And that differs from just about every other Democrat and Republican candidate running for Congress how?
At first I thought what a lunatic, but then I remembered that the turd, whose values are about the same as hers was elected twice, and he was probably more incompetent that she is so there is a significant chance. God help the USA.
someday we may have a communist president. I am 71 and I hope not soon.
she’s an airhead
Don’t know if she is, but if she’s Puerto Rican, she’s American.
I hear: La Presidentia
Aspiring to be Hugo Chavez.
Once she gets a whiff of the cash you can make in DC, she’ll be just another corrupt pol in DC. Plenty of them have made a nice living at it for decades.
Read Florida cowboy hat lady, stupid Texas (American Flag on Mars) lady, and Maxine Waters, Adam Clayton Powell, etc.
Oh brother. The “at least she’s honest” bs again. She promises billions to everyone but can’t/won’t comment on how she’d pay for it. Being an out of the closet socialist carries a lot of weight with dumb butt millennials so how is being honest about it an attribute for anyone else? Other than the fact it’ll get her elected.
She should campaign to be president of...say, the Congo. That might work out for her.
> “Her aspiration is to be the president” <
mine is to retire.....
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