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Subject Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Why She Backed Bernie Sanders over Elizabeth Warren
Date October 24, 2019 3:54 AM
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ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ ON WHY SHE BACKED BERNIE SANDERS OVER
ELIZABETH WARREN   [[link removed]]

 

Ryan Grim
October 21, 2019
The Intercept
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_ She said her endorsement is intended to help build a movement,
which would shape not just whether Democrats beat Trump in 2020, but
how. _

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorses 2020 Democratic presidential
candidate Bernie Sanders at his campaign rally in Queensbridge Park on
Oct. 19, 2019 in Queens, New York City., Photo: Bauzen/GC Images/Getty
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ON STAGE AT a rally [[link removed]] in
Queens on Saturday, and in interviews beforehand with The Intercept,
NBC News, and CBS News, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expounded on her
decision to endorse Sen. Bernie Sanders in the presidential primary.
Perhaps as important as her endorsement was the motivation behind it:
If Ocasio-Cortez portrayed Sanders as the only trustworthy candidate
in a field of sellouts and shills, it could make uniting the party
after the nomination — either behind Sanders or one of his opponents
— that much more difficult. But Ocasio-Cortez went a different
route.

Put simply, she said that her endorsement is intended to help build a
movement, which would shape not just whether Democrats beat President
Donald Trump in 2020, but how. And, she said, it was a recognition
that Sanders is the only candidate in the field who has been fighting
consistently for working people for decades, making him the ideal
leader of multiracial, working-class movement.

By endorsing Sanders in order to help build his movement,
Ocasio-Cortez is taking seriously the campaign’s motto, “Not me,
us.” 

“For me, it wasn’t even about helping the senator. It was a moment
of clarity for me personally in saying, What role do I want to
play?” Ocasio-Cortez told NBC. “And I want to be a part of a mass
movement.” 

“It was less about personalities and more about values, more about
strategy, more about not just, Are we going to defeat Donald
Trump? But how are we going to defeat him? And so that’s a process
that I think every American needs to go through,” she told The
Intercept. “I’m proud to be part of this movement.”

She told CBS News
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she had met with Elizabeth Warren before making the announcement. “I
think she’s a fabulous candidate,” Ocasio-Cortez said. “Frankly,
Senator Sanders, Senator Warren, and myself are all on the same team
in the party.” 

Later, on Twitter, she made clear that her support of Sanders was not
a condemnation of Warren. In reply to a Warren supporter who said he
was jealous that Sanders had landed the endorsement, she said
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be grateful to have such strong, progressive leadership to choose
from. For many it’s a tough choice precisely because of how great
they are. I’m confident we will all come together on the other side
stronger than ever.”

For Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic victories are hollow if they’re not
helping push the country in a more progressive direction. She told The
Intercept that she will soon begin weighing in on more competitive
primaries, even those in which incumbent Democrats are running for
reelection. Primary endorsements, she said, are “part of a
continual consideration about not just, Does the Democratic Party
have the majority, but what does that majority look like and what
will that majority fight for? And too often, that majority lets
working people down, and I think we have a responsibility to really
look at the quality … of the Democratic majority, and how we make
sure that we continue to support a transformational Democratic
Party.” So far, she has only endorsed one primary challenger, Marie
Newman, running against Rep. Dan Lipinski in Illinois. Sources with
knowledge of her thinking say that an endorsement of Jessica Cisneros,
running against Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, is imminent.

She told CBS News, and reiterated on stage at the rally, that one
reason she backed Sanders was his consistent work for decades on
behalf of the working class. That history contrasts him to every other
Democrat in the race, including Warren, who was conservative as a
young woman and at times registered as a Republican before converting
to the Democratic Party and progressivism in the 1990s. 

Ocasio-Cortez noted that just last year, she was still working as a
bartender in Manhattan. “Now that I’m on the other side of this as
a member of Congress,” she told CBS, “and understanding the
pressures there are on the inside to conform, and to have seen them
and experienced them firsthand, it’s astounded me, frankly, that the
senator has been there fighting for me long before I got to the halls
of Congress and fighting for people like me.” 

_The full interview
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Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders is available here._

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