Sunny Hostin claimed on Wednesday that self-described Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) was not actually as “far-Left” as Republicans say — but the evidence she offered made the opposite of her intended point.
Hostin’s assessment comes just a day after Ocasio-Cortez lost her bid to be the ranking member of the powerful House Oversight Committee — the position went instead to Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-VA), who was reportedly backed by former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“The other thing that I will say is — about AOC — she has been demonized by the Right, and she’s been demonized as this, like, too progressive far-Left person,” Hostin complained. “And I want to set — try to set the record straight because if she is too progressive then the Democrats really are going to lose the working class.”
Hostin made no effort to explain the shift to the right — and toward President-elect Donald Trump in particular — among working class voters, insisting instead that the policies Ocasio-Cortez supported were proof that she was not “far-Left.”
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“This is her platform, the key issues: health care for all people, affordable housing, rebuild the unions, federal job guarantee, free public college, create clean energy jobs, paid parental leave, and expand protections for the LGBTQ+ community,” Hostin read.
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Alyssa Farah Griffin actually calls out how AOC's Green New Deal would be catastrophic for the economy and the lies about it creating jobs: "International travel virtually impossible to do because of [airplane regulations]."
She notes Americans don't want government healthcare. pic.twitter.com/NABxhfzzpk— Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) December 18, 2024
Cohost Alyssa Farah Griffin pushed back, explaining to Hostin that those policies were far to the left of what many Americans wanted from the federal government.
“The devil is in the details,” she said. “Because a lot of this country does not support, for example, the Green New Deal, which would absolutely crush jobs across this country, wreak havoc on the economy, it would actually make international travel virtually impossible to do because of some of the regulations that it’d put in place.”
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Hostin tried to object, claiming that the Green New Deal would create “millions” of new jobs, but Griffin kept going.
She went on to note that many Americans did not like the idea of universal health care either, mainly because it would take choice out of the equation: “I would argue that AOC is definitely too left for the majority of the country.”
