NY-14: Former CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera will challenge Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in Primary

[RandySF]

Former longtime CNBC correspondent and anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera has launched a challenge in the Democratic primary against freshman firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.

Caruso-Cabrera, who became a CNBC contributor when she left the network in 2018, served as a member of the board of directors for financial services firm Beneficient. She will no longer be a CNBC contributor.

According to a filing late Monday, she will run as a Democrat in that party's primary in the 14th District. Caruso-Cabrera is known to be a skeptic of government and a proponent of free markets. In 2010, she published a book called "You Know I'm Right: More Prosperity, Less Government." She has been a registered Democrat for several years.

"I am the daughter and granddaughter of working class Italian and Cuban immigrants," Caruso-Cabrera said in a statement. "I am so lucky to have had such a wonderful career and I want everybody to have the opportunity that I've had. That's why I'm running."


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2020/02/11/michelle-caruso-cabrera-will-challenge-alexandria-ocasio-cortez-in-house-race.html

[democratisphere]

1. Some choices can become difficult.

I was hoping Joe Crowley would get back in the game.

[democrattotheend]

9. Why? I like AOC

I'm not as radical as she is, but I find her appealing and she makes a lot of good points. I also think we need more people from my generation in Congress.

[Happyhippychick]

2. And she will get the vote of everyone who is furious about Amazon pulling out, which is a lot

[Voltaire2]

3. She's a libertarian.

[Lucky Luciano]

4. She is very right wing.

Running as a D because running as an r is a nonstarter in that district.

[Pantagruel]

5. She's really a GOP tool

Has to disguise herself as a Dem in that district.

[PCIntern]

6. That's what I thought when I read the subject line

She was a Bush Cheney defender

[abqtommy]

7. How cute to have one hyphenate challenge another!

[Aristus]

8. "You Know I'm Right"-Wing...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. That idiot who used to go on Maher spouting all kinds of right wing bullshit?! Yeah, fuck her... nt

[MagickMuffin]

11. I do not know of Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, but my first thought was a plant

It appears my intuition is right.

[Ciaphas Cain]

12. Fascinating hypothesis

That's some fantastic intuition! I hope you have some proof to back it up otherwise it's just another conspiracy theory.

Here's some links so that you can educate yourself before you continue embarrassing yourself

https://michellecc2020.com/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/veronicavillafane/2020/02/11/former-cnbc-anchor-michelle-caruso-cabrera-enters-ny-congressional-race/