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Posted on 01/05/2020 3:40:36 PM PST by jazusamo
The New York Post is reporting that during a recent interview, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) complained about having to share the same political party as Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden. The comments came after the representative was asked about the role she imagines herself playing in Congress if Joe Biden ends up being president of the United States, assuming she is still in Congress following the 2020 election.
“Oh, God," Ocasio-Cortez exclaimed. "In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party, but in America, we are.” Ocasio-Cortez's comments were made during a recent interview with New York Magazine that will be published later this week.
(Via the New York Post)
Ocasio-Cortez, who endorsed Sen. Bernie Sanders’ presidential run , also said the Democratic Party caters too much to representatives who flipped districts in 2018 that had voted for President Trump in 2016.
“For so long, when I first got in, people were like, ‘Oh, are you going to be basically a tea party of the left?’ And what people don’t realize is that there is a tea party of the left, but it’s on the right edges, the most conservative parts of the Democratic Party,” she said.
Ocasio-Cortez continued to say that criticizing the party is frowned upon but credits herself with creating the ability for some members to speak their minds.
“I think I have created more room for dissent, and we’re learning to stretch our wings a little bit on the left,” she said.
It's interesting that Ocasio-Cortez views her own political beliefs as too extreme for the major political party on the left in America. Perhaps that has something to do with the fact that almost a quarter of the residents in her congressional district are not even from America, as Matt recently pointed out. Democrats have been fighting tooth and nail to keep the citizenship question off the census, which is used to determine the number of representatives apportioned to each state. But even without the citizenship question being asked, it is still possible that Ocasio-Cortez will lose her House district following the 2020 census due to population shifts over the last 10 years.
Why would she think that? They’re both Communists.
I lament being the same species as AOC.
She is the gift (to the GOP) that keeps on giving...You go girl!
The stupid. It burns.
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Atta gurl. Keep it up. You should distance yourself from everyone. Take a one way flight to the Arctic.
LOL! Post of the day.
Well, go start your own, Ale.
‘The Leftist Wacko Progressives’ would make a nice catchy name for it.
Marry me, Lexi!
I know, AOC, the Communist Party just hasn’t gained ground even though you’re working so hard to turn that around.
Well, why don’t you just run along and go join the communist party then, you stupid broad?
When I was a kid in boarding school, it became a big thing to raid squirrel nests and bring young squirrels into the dorm as pets.
Those little things were so dang cute.
I know they can be real pests, but I've always had a soft spot in my heart for them.
Now fruitcake! Nobody, not one kid had a little baby fruitcake for a pet.
No love there...
Time to deport the biotch to Kuba.
Smile...
I’ll do anything for a POTD nomination...
Well, almost. LOL
Young libtard socialist complains about old libtard socialist.
In USSR that got you disappeared.
Seems to have had the same effect in Arkansas during the 80s and 90s.
with her chompers she could start an environmentally friendly tree trimming service named “leave it to beaver”...
Our place backs up to a place on over acre parcel. They have a lot of big trees including some huge firs that separate our homes and we have squirrels here year round.
They don’t do anything destructive and we enjoy watching the young ones in the spring and summer when they play and wrestle each other, they’re cute a heck.
aoc=another officious communist...
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