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(3,360 posts)Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said in an interview published Monday that Democrats nationwide can cultivate too big of a tent, asserting that she and her partys 2020 frontrunner, former Vice President Joe Biden, would be in different political parties in any other nation.
Asked for a profile by New York Magazine about what role she might play as a member of Congress should Biden capture the White House, the freshman House Democrat from New York responded with a groan.
Oh God, she said. In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party, but in America, we are.
I will be damned if the same politicians who refused to act then are going to try to come back today and say we need to find a middle-of-the-road approach to save our lives. That is too much for me, Ocasio-Cortez said, after Reuters had reported that Biden was crafting a middle ground approach to combating the global threat.
For his part, Biden has praised Ocasio-Cortez and other members of the left-leaning squad of freshman congresswomen as brilliant and really smart, but warned their political ideology was not representative of most elected Democrats.
They are the exception rather than the rule, he told MSNBC in July. If you listen to the guys and women in your business, they say, Thats the majority of people who got elected. We need that kind of energy, but thats not the majority of Democrats who got elected last time.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/06/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-joe-biden-not-same-party-094642
All or nothing-sound good to every one?
Wow, social media makes for poor politics😱