Posted on 07/21/2018 9:58:55 AM PDT by yoe
The new face of an emerging democratic socialist movement joined its patriarch in the most unlikely place Friday, calling on Kansans unhappy with the direction of the country to get off the sidelines in a pivotal Republican-held congressional district.
“We know that people in Kansas, just like everywhere else in this country, just like families in the Bronx, just want a fair shake,” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the surprise winner in a New York House primary last month, told a frenetic crowd of more than 3,000 in a Kansas suburb of Kansas City.
[snip]The 28-year-old Latina from New York and the 76-year-old Jewish senator from Vermont struck a stark contrast in the hotel ballroom, though they reflected the range of people in the racially and ethnically mixed crowd, weighted toward millennials but including gray-haired activists and parents with children.
Their combined messages sought to unite not just the diverse group in the hall, but restless liberals around the country.
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Was the crowd grassroots or were they paid participants to look good for the camera?
Did anyone report on what she spoke about. Did she wing it or was it a stump speech?
I am guessing that AP did not mention the ocasio gaffe about turning the seat red.
I wont click on an AP link. Am I right?
Shouldnt Hillary be campaigning for Welder? Or is she too toxic?
Depending on when her birthday is, she would be eligible in 2024 or 2025.
If she turns 29 this year, she could be eligible in 2024.
oh good grief, I meant 2028
I'm pretty sure it's grassroots. Welder doesn't have the money for a rent-a-crowd and he's from Wyandotte as well so these were his neighbors.
Fair shake = your money.
No clicky AP.
Actually, the establishment Democrats and multimillionaire party elders are wishing she'd go away, and take crazy uncle Bernie with her.
They're thinking the same thing we are; let Ocasio-Cortez turn the Democratic Party into an abode of angry Latino socialism and all the reasonably sane independents will flee or, gasp, vote for Trump!
Thank you
Sorry, the image you posted overscans my monitor.
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