MI-GOV: Ocasio-Cortez hoping for 25% turnout or lower

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117. she's doing it in a primary IN FAVOR of Democratic candidates

...don't just lie about it. What she's doing is legitimate and not just something that she's doing alone. EVERY candidate and their supporters are campaigning against SOMEONE in our primary. Only AOC is getting pilloried for it here.

And that's my issue, what's occurring on this Democratic board. Pretending like this is normal is dishonest. We're not supposed to be pummeling Democratic nominees here, essentially doing the work of the republican opposition for them.

This is an all-out attack against AOC, primarily for having the temerity to participate in our primary. Not on the issues she raises in support of the candidates she advocates for, but on the basis of her participation, alone.

It's a disgusting trend which has soured the primary here. It shouldn't be allowed or tolerated. This isn't the campaign and we have rules that are supposed to prevent piling onto a nominee, no matter what's occurring on the trail.

The most ridiculous claim is that she's only attacking Democrats. It's not only a despicable lie, it's dirt-dump politics to give your opponents a platform by giving them attention. Just shows how craven the effort is against her here. She's busy telling voters what she and the people she supports stand for, and folks here are bashing her for it.

She has a perfect right, just like her Democratic opponents criticize their Democratic rivals, to criticize them in our primary, if she sees fit, but the claim that it's her main enterprise is the type of lie that should not be allowed to be swung around like a cudgel.

It's a measure of just how nasty the campaigning against her here has gotten. It's been personal and demagogic. It's a DU shame.