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Ocasio-Cortez responds to Dem senator who said policies 'too far to the left' don't win in Midwest
The Hill ^ | 07/01/18 | Morgan Gstalter

Posted on 07/01/2018 6:49:50 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) responded to Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-Ill.) claim that policies "too far to the left" can’t win in Midwestern states.

“With respect to the Senator, strong, clear advocacy for working class Americans isn’t just for the Bronx,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a tweet on Sunday.

Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist and former organizer for Sen. Bernie Sander’s (I-Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign, pointed out that policies to the left of Hillary Clinton won in several Midwestern states.

Sanders won the Democratic primary in Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Indiana in 2016.

“We then lost several of those states in the general,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “What’s the plan to prevent a repeat?”

Ocasio-Cortez was responding to an interview Duckworth gave to CNN's Jake Tapper in which she a political platform that's “too far to the left” could ostracize voters in the Midwest.

The Hill has reached out to Duckworth’s office for comment.

Duckworth appeared on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday to discuss Ocasio-Cortez’s stunning victory over incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley (D) in the primary for New York’s 14th congressional district.

Tapper asked Duckworth if the young candidate represents the future of the Democratic Party.

"I think it's the future of the party in the Bronx, where she is,” Duckworth said.

“I think that you can’t win the White House without the Midwest and I don’t think you can go too far to the left and still win the Midwest,” Duckworth said during the interview.

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Illinois; US: New York
KEYWORDS: aoc; duckworth; ocasiocortez; tammyduckworth
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To: yesthatjallen

She’s probably right. The worst pro-government loser lefties I know are from the Midwest.

People there want things to be done for them by the government, and that’s why she’s going to be a hit in the Midwest.


21 posted on 07/01/2018 7:06:36 PM PDT by livius
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To: CaptainK

The bartender does have the pulse of the younger democrats better than do the established party elite. She makes a good voice for the party just as Trump does for us Republicans that want nothing of the establishment.


22 posted on 07/01/2018 7:06:42 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: yesthatjallen

She ain’t from the Bronx.


23 posted on 07/01/2018 7:06:42 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Free Republic has been reduced to primarily a gathering place for the inane, banal, and obtuse.)
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To: Paladin2

Don’t take it too lightly

Extremist views sometimes end up winning


24 posted on 07/01/2018 7:07:29 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: yesthatjallen

Socialist Democrat Definition of Working Class People = Anyone but White People, especially Male White People.


25 posted on 07/01/2018 7:08:14 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (THEY LIVE, and we're the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.)
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“The RAT infighting is spreading like a virus.”

victim class against victim class- never interrupt infighting


26 posted on 07/01/2018 7:08:15 PM PDT by Nailbiter
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To: yesthatjallen

Even though obozo didn’t use the same verbiage his presidency was nonetheless very much about socialism


27 posted on 07/01/2018 7:08:28 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: yesthatjallen

For a 28 year old she sure knows a LOT! /s


28 posted on 07/01/2018 7:09:06 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

She’s more Bronx than Clinton could earlier claim being a New Yorker. Besides, she was born there, lived there until five, and apparently made it her home after college. A reasonable claim to me.


29 posted on 07/01/2018 7:09:49 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

“American education strikes again.”

Watched Fox News this morning. Kids they interviewed didn’t know what happened in 1776 or why we celebrate July 4th.

Khrushchev warned us in the 50’s that they would get us through our education system.


30 posted on 07/01/2018 7:09:49 PM PDT by lizma2
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To: Nifster

He was endorsed by the same Democratic Socialists of America. She is just more open with the affiliation.


31 posted on 07/01/2018 7:10:58 PM PDT by Reno89519 (No Amnesty! No Catch-and-Release! Just Say No to All Illegal Aliens! Arrest & Deport!y)
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To: yesthatjallen

This is old stuff in Canada — it’s the Liberals vs the (Social Democratic) NDP. The NDP (propped up by the Green envrio-extremist party) is now in power in BC, and Alberta (!). It was the Official Opposition in Ottawa, until the last election. Don’t underestimate them!


32 posted on 07/01/2018 7:11:01 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

Shes the daughter of a Westchester County architect
Poor underprivileged girl probaly had to fly coach to Boston
Btw looking at who funded her campaign? Very interesting
ACTBLUE = SOROS


33 posted on 07/01/2018 7:12:38 PM PDT by silverleaf (A man who kneels for the national anthem doesn't stand for much of anything)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Well, not putting Full Frontal Socialists on the Dem ballot for starters, LOL!


Hey, come on. She is a wise, 20-something Latina from the Bronx. Therefore, she has all the answers. Pelosi should just step aside and let her run things.


34 posted on 07/01/2018 7:13:10 PM PDT by rbg81 (Truth is stranger than fiction)
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To: Nifster

True.

See the Mexico election.


35 posted on 07/01/2018 7:14:02 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

Good slogan for the Lefties!


36 posted on 07/01/2018 7:14:42 PM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: pepsionice
"I’d rephrase that....’Make America Venezuela’ (MAV)."

Better. I'll work with that in the future.

37 posted on 07/01/2018 7:15:29 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: poconopundit

“I’d rephrase that....’Make America Venezuela’ (MAV).”

Better. I’ll work with that in the future.


38 posted on 07/01/2018 7:16:06 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: yesthatjallen

The more they fight amongst themselves the less time they’ll have for us.


39 posted on 07/01/2018 7:16:07 PM PDT by bgill (CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola.")
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To: Nifster

Maybe mad Maxine will lender her her broom. Bernie won Dem primary’s in the Midwest. Hildebeast lost the general. The girl is still in political diapers. Duckworth and her need to get together and have a whine knife fight. I mean wine knife fight.


40 posted on 07/01/2018 7:17:11 PM PDT by Equine1952 (Get yourself a ticket on a common mans train of thought.)
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