Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezAttorney says 75-year-old man shoved by Buffalo police suffered brain injury How language is bringing down Donald Trump Highest-circulation Kentucky newspaper endorses Charles Booker in Senate race MORE (D-N.Y.) said in an interview on Sunday that she’s not ready yet to endorse a candidate in the Democratic 2020 presidential race.
“It’s possible that I’ll endorse later on perhaps, you know, I do not see myself endorsing any time soon,” she said on ABC’s “This Week.”
“We haven’t even had our first debates yet. I’m very interested in seeing how things play out,” she added. “So we’ll see.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on the 2020 election: “It’s possible that I’ll endorse later on … I do not see myself endorsing anytime soon. We haven’t even had our first debates yet. I’m very interested in seeing how things play out” https://t.co/3S3qFJFu4C pic.twitter.com/EU69fBAM71
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 16, 2019
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ADVERTISEMENTOcasio-Cortez has co-sponsored several bills in the past months with fellow progressive Sen. Bernie SandersBernie SandersThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Milley apologizes for church photo-op Harris grapples with defund the police movement amid veep talk Biden courts younger voters — who have been a weakness MORE (I-Vt.), a 2020 White House hopeful. She also volunteered on his campaign and he was a supporter of hers. She was asked if all that gives him an edge.
“I think what we really need right now is a presidential candidate that is going to fight for the well-being of working-class Americans and all Americans. And I think that he does that excellently,” she responded. “I think his policies do that excellently. I believe Sen. [Elizabeth] Warren’s [D-Mass.] policies do that excellently. And I think that that’s really what we need to be looking for in terms of the agenda.”
Ocasio-Cortez also said Democrats risk losing the presidency again to Trump if the party doesn’t have a candidate fighting for “transformational change.”
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “I think that we have a very real risk of losing the presidency to Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpSenate advances public lands bill in late-night vote Warren, Democrats urge Trump to back down from veto threat over changing Confederate-named bases Esper orders ‘After Action Review’ of National Guard’s role in protests MORE if we do not have a presidential candidate that is fighting for true transformational change in the lives of working people in the United States” https://t.co/3S3qFJFu4C pic.twitter.com/69eXZuBqKB
— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) June 16, 2019
“I think that if we elect a president on half-measures that the American people don’t quite understand the agenda of a president, you know, a that says we’re fighting for higher wages but we don’t want a $15 minimum wage, fighting for education but we don’t to make colleges tuition-free, fighting for women’s rights, et cetera, but we don’t want to go all the way with that, then I think we have a very real risk of losing the presidency,” she said.
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