Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) has repeatedly attacked Senate Republicans over the massive $2 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill, which provides relief to American families and protects the economy, even though every Senate Democrat also voted for the bill.
The 880-page bill was passed 96-0 with four Republican Senators not being able to vote because they were self-quarantining over the coronavirus outbreak.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/03/25/trump-senate-coronavirus-economic-stimulus-2-trillion/">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The bill would extend $1,200 to most American adults and $500 for most children, create a $500 billion lending program for businesses, cities and states, and a $367 billion employee retention fund for small businesses. It would direct $130 billion to hospitals and provide four months of expanded unemployment insurance, among other things.
Lawmakers and the White House were bombarded with lobbyists and special interest groups seeking assistance during the negotiations, and the price tag rose from $850 billion to $2.2 trillion in just a matter of days.</blockquote>
Ocasio-Cortez responded to the bill&#8217;s passage in the Senate by attacking only Republicans, even though every Democrat in the Senate also voted for it.
&#8220;Just a reminder that there is absolutely no good reason why Senate Republicans are tying a historic corporate giveaway to getting relief money in the hands of families,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. &#8220;They could just authorize sending checks to families today, right now, &amp; deal with the rest. But they refuse.&#8221;
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Just a reminder that there is absolutely no good reason why Senate Republicans are tying a historic corporate giveaway to getting relief money in the hands of families.
They could just authorize sending checks to families today, right now, &amp; deal with the rest. But they refuse.
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1242894936753700879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;To clarify, $1200 checks are ONLY going to some w/social sec numbers, NOT immigrants w/ tax IDs (ITINs). Thanks to GOP, these checks will be cut off the backs of *taxpaying immigrants,* who get nothing. Many are essential workers who pay more taxes than Amazon. Wall St gets $4T,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. &#8220;What Trump + Senate GOP have done is hold hospitals, working people, and the vulnerable hostage so they could get in $500 billion (that will be leveraged into $4T) in corporate welfare. Without the Wall St giveaway, GOP refuses to fund hospitals &amp; unemployment. It’s inhumane.&#8221;
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What Trump + Senate GOP have done is hold hospitals, working people, and the vulnerable hostage so they could get in $500 billion (that will be leveraged into $4T) in corporate welfare.
Without the Wall St giveaway, GOP refuses to fund hospitals &amp; unemployment. It’s inhumane.
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1243220827249741824?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 26, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez continued, &#8220;Republicans put more strings and means-testing on single parents and struggling mom + pops than they do on multibillion dollar corporations that don’t pay taxes.&#8221;
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Republicans put more strings and means-testing on single parents and struggling mom + pops than they do on multibillion dollar corporations that don’t pay taxes.
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&#8220;The cruise industry registers as foreign companies to avoid paying US taxes. Now they want US bailout money. Now the same Republicans who say immigrants who pay US taxes shouldn’t get help are bending over backwards to give 🤑 to foreign companies who DON’T pay taxes. Insane,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;GOP really pulling for a hat trick of corruption, classism, and racism all in one policy move here.&#8221;
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GOP really pulling for a hat trick of corruption, classism, and racism all in one policy move here.
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1243331307503005698?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez Attacks Republicans Over Stimulus Bill That Every Democrat Voted For

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Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) says the House of Representatives will finally take up the bipartisan Senate coronavirus relief bill on Friday, more than 24 hours after the measure passed the Senate, 96-0. In a press conference Thurdsay morning, however, she says she is still unsatisfied with the bill and that a fourth coronavirus relief package may be necessary.
Both Pelosi and House majority leader Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-MD) say the House will hold debate on the bill Friday morning and anticipate it will pass on a &#8220;voice vote&#8221; despite vocal opposition from progressive House Democrats like Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) who, Wednesday, threatened to derail the legislation by forcing the House to do an in-person, roll call vote.
“In order to protect the safety of Members and staff and prevent further spread of COVID-19 through Members’ travel, the Republican Leader and I expect that the House vote on final passage will be done by voice vote,&#8221; Hoyer wrote in a memo to colleagues sent Thursday night. &#8220;Members who want to come to the House Floor to debate this bill will be able to do so.&#8221;
If House members want to object to the bill, but cannot make it the the floor of the House, there will be a digital option.
“In addition, we are working to ensure that those who are unable to return to Washington may express their views on this legislation remotely. My office will send out information tomorrow with those details,&#8221; Hoyer said.
Pelosi also warned objectors like Ocasio-Cortez, that forcing a roll call vote &#8212; which any Member of Congress has the power to do when a voice vote is on the table &#8212; would carry with it consequences, and would not delay voting or force a further round of negotiations.
&#8220;If somebody calls for a recorded vote, we have options. And then once they know we have options, they probably won&#8217;t call for it,&#8221; Pelosi said in a press conference Wednesday night, after the bill passed the Senate.
&#8220;We will have a victory tomorrow for America&#8217;s workers,&#8221; Pelosi added. &#8220;If somebody has a different point of view, they can put it in the record.&#8221;
The House is taking an additional 24 hours to review the Senate&#8217;s legislation, likely because House Democratic leaders need to head off objections from House progressives, who have pushed for a &#8220;just stimulus&#8221; that provides for direct payments to workers but holds back on any aid to businesses. Ocasio-Cortez, over the last week, has said she would push for a bill that includes a student loan bailout, a mass release of prisoners, and a moratorium on evictions. Other progressives have mentioned similar ideas. Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) demanded that any stimulus bill include an &#8220;overhaul&#8221; of the United States&#8217; healthcare system.
In order to head off the complaints, Pelosi announced Thursday that the House would begin working on a fourth coronavirus relief bill &#8212; this one likely designed to press through progressive measures excised from the Senate&#8217;s bipartisan agreement or those included in Pelosi&#8217;s 1,400-page House relief package that went largely ignored after public outcry.
&#8220;As House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., expressed confidence Thursday that her chamber will pass the third coronavirus relief bill on Friday, she’s already focused on writing a fourth phase of aid and suggested that in a future measure, Congress might consider providing more direct payments to Americans,&#8221; <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/pelosi-says-she-doesn-t-think-we-ve-seen-end-n1169596">NBC News reported Thursday</a>.

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Pelosi Says House Will Vote On Coronavirus Relief Friday, Outlines Fourth Relief Bill To Satisfy Progressives

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On Wednesday night, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed the largest stimulus bill in history, amounting to some $2.2 trillion in relief measures, including $1,200 checks to most American adults (and another $500 for most children), a $500 billion loan program for struggling businesses, cities and states, nearly $400 billion for employee-retention funds for small businesses and another $130 billion for hospitals, among other provisions.
Now the bill goes to the Democrat-majority House, where Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is trying to make sure her fellow &#8220;disappointed&#8221; Democrats get on board.
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (D-MD) announced Wednesday that the House will convene at 9 a.m. on Friday to consider the bill, which will be voted on by voice vote so that House members won&#8217;t need to return to Washington amid the crisis.
While the Senate passed the bill 96-0, with some Senators absent due to self-quarantine or health concerns, the House may not see such unanimity. Despite the economic relief bill&#8217;s sweeping provision and staggering final cost, it is not enough for many House Democrats, who want more of their agenda items included, as demonstrated by the House Democrats&#8217; bill floated Monday and quickly withdrawn after widespread backlash over its <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/senator-highlights-pelosis-absurd-coronavirus-bill-that-is-unrelated-to-the-crisis">long list</a> of non-crisis-related, &#8220;Democratic wishlist&#8221; provisions — including new voting laws, collective bargaining rights for federal unions, and imposing carbon emissions caps on airlines.
While Pelosi strongly signaled Wednesday that she will get the bill passed in the House on Friday, she also revealed that she&#8217;s having to do some work behind the scenes to get &#8220;disappointed&#8221; Democrats to back the historic bill.
&#8220;What is important is for us to recognize the good that is in the bill, appreciate it for what it does,&#8221; Pelosi <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/politics/cnntv-nancy-pelosi-stimulus-bill/index.html">said</a> on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;Situation Room&#8221; Wednesday evening. &#8220;Don&#8217;t judge it for what it doesn&#8217;t because we have more bills to come.&#8221;
&#8220;Those comments came just after Pelosi told House Democrats on a series of conference calls that she is already thinking about the substance of the fourth coronavirus relief package that Congress will have to pass to respond to the crisis, according to sources on the calls,&#8221; <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/politics/stimulus-senate-action-coronavirus/index.html">CNN</a> reports. &#8220;Pelosi made it clear to members who are disappointed that the pending bill did not include enough of their priorities that they will have a chance to add those provisions in the fourth package, the sources said.&#8221;
&#8220;At the start of all this we had two bills, which were about emergencies &#8230; and the emergency isn&#8217;t over, but the focus was on those two bills. Now we&#8217;re mitigating for the damage of it all to the health and to the livelihood of the American people,&#8221; Pelosi told CNN. &#8220;That is in this bill. And then we will go forward for recovery. Emergency, mitigation, recovery. And again all along the way still addressing the emergency and mitigation needs by focusing on how we build the economy in a positive way as we meet the health needs of the American people.&#8221;
All it takes is one House Democrat to force his or her fellow members of Congress to appear in Washington in person to vote, and democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who has been one of the more vocal critics of the Senate bill, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-coronavirus-package-vote/index.html">told CNN</a> Wednesday that she might do just that. While she said she&#8217;s &#8220;open&#8221; to a remote vote &#8220;if necessary,&#8221; she said, &#8220;With the health risks of travel, there is no easy choice here. But essential workers are showing up and putting their health at risk every day, and if the final text of a bill is set up to hurt them, it may be something we have to do.&#8221;
An incensed tweet Wednesday by the congresswoman about the Senate adjourning also highlighted her sentiment that members of Congress should be physically in D.C. &#8220;The Senate might ADJOURN FOR A MONTH after this bill?&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. &#8220;This is completely dangerous and unacceptable. We HAVE to be able to respond to people’s needs. People don’t have this time. Even IF the Senate can even return on the 20th (big IF) that may not be enough time to solve May.&#8221;
She followed that up with a tweet blasting the Senate bill for supposedly containing a &#8220;historic corporate giveaway,&#8221; writing: &#8220;Just a reminder that there is absolutely no good reason why Senate Republicans are tying a historic corporate giveaway to getting relief money in the hands of families. They could just authorize sending checks to families today, right now, &amp; deal with the rest. But they refuse.&#8221;
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The Senate might ADJOURN FOR A MONTH after this bill?
This is completely dangerous and unacceptable. We HAVE to be able to respond to people’s needs.
People don’t have this time. Even IF the Senate can even return on the 20th (big IF) that may not be enough time to solve May. <a href="https://t.co/O5XnubG0l1">https://t.co/O5XnubG0l1</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1242856168063672326?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Just a reminder that there is absolutely no good reason why Senate Republicans are tying a historic corporate giveaway to getting relief money in the hands of families.
They could just authorize sending checks to families today, right now, &amp; deal with the rest. But they refuse.
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1242894936753700879?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Senate Passes $2 Trillion Relief Bill; Pelosi Has Message For ‘Disappointed’ House Democrats

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) took to Twitter Wednesday to chastize the Senate for a proposed plan to recess immediately after voting to pass a massive, $2 trillion coronavirus relief package, but privately, CNN reports, the Democratic socialist threatened to hold up coronavirus relief herself by forcing her House colleagues to return to Washington, D.C., to vote on the measure in person.
&#8220;The Senate might ADJOURN FOR A MONTH after this bill?&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez whined on social media, after discovering, from CNN, that the Senate plans to adjourn after passing coronavirus relief Wednesday. &#8220;This is completely dangerous and unacceptable. We HAVE to be able to respond to people’s needs. People don’t have this time. Even IF the Senate can even return on the 20th (big IF) that may not be enough time to solve May.&#8221;
But Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s complaint does not necesssarily stem from her concern for her fellow man. Like other members of the progressive &#8220;Squad&#8221; &#8212; Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) &#8212; Ocasio-Cortez does not support the bipartisan relief package, which she says gives too much power and money to corporations. Instead, she and others are behind a 1,400-page House bill, which pairs elements of the Senate legislation with elements of the Green New Deal, massive handouts to labor unions, a $30,000-per-person student loan bailout, and dramatic changes to the American electoral process.
In fact, Ocasio-Cortez and Omar have said the House bill doesn&#8217;t go far enough. Omar participated in an online townhall hosted by Democratic socialists Wednesday night, designed to marshal support behind a &#8220;just stimulus.&#8221;
If the Senate leaves after passing their bill, Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s chances of forcing Democrats and Republicans back to the bargaining table over the House bill all but vanish.
In the House, Ocasio-Cortez seems poised to take similar measure to delay any relief package if it does not include certain additional items, <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/25/politics/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-coronavirus-package-vote/index.html">CNN reports</a>, and has warned that she will force her House colleagues to vote on the coronavirus relief package in person, even if it means defying Centers for Disease Control and Prevention &#8220;social distancing&#8221; guidelines, putting older Members of Congress at risk.
&#8220;The New York Democrat has expressed her frustration with reports of the stimulus deal, suggesting it&#8217;s too tilted towards corporations. The deal was reached between senators from both parties &#8212; including the senior Democratic senator from her state, Chuck Schumer, and the White House,&#8221; CNN reported Wednesday. &#8220;Ocasio-Cortez told CNN she is not ruling out asking for a recorded vote, which would force lawmakers to return to Washington and vote in-person, something that most members of Congress are eager to avoid amid the coronavirus pandemic.&#8221;
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), who has not scheduled the Senate package for a vote and will not commit to bringing the bipartisan legislation to the floor, did tell colleagues, in a phone call Wednesday afternoon that, when the bill does make its way to the House, that she&#8217;d prefer a unanimous voice vote. Any member who decides not to participate in that voice vote could &#8212; as Ocasio-Cortez seems to be planning &#8212; force the dreaded, in-person roll call vote.
The move could &#8220;delay final passage&#8221; of the bill &#8220;for days,&#8221; according to CNN.
Ocasio-Cortez has not released a list of demands, but based on her social media missives, it seems she&#8217;ll push for things like an <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1242621795246751744">en masse release of prisoners</a>, a <a href="https://twitter.com/SenGianaris/status/1241747580641574914">complete moratorium on evictions and foreclosures</a> that includes rent relief, and a student loan bailout, just to begin. Her colleagues have even gone so far as to propose a &#8220;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/ilhan-omar-says-coronavirus-outbreak-calls-for-radical-takeover-of-private-hospitals">radical takeover</a>&#8221; of private health care.
The House returns to session on Thursday at 11am EST.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Warns She May Singlehandedly Delay Coronavirus Relief, Force In-Person Vote

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Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s (D-NY) former chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti torched Democrat House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for playing games with the multi-trillion dollar coronavirus stimulus bill.
“Well I do think that there is a whole concern in our country that if we’re giving tens of billions of dollars to the airlines that we could at least have a shared value about what happens to the environment, but that is an excuse, not a reason, uh, for Senator McConnell to go forward,” Pelosi said in a video clip posted on Twitter. “Some of the other issues, like not fully extending family medical leave, not funding food stamps, I hope that will all change in the next few hours, but they’re issues that are central to the well being of America’s families.”
Chakrabarti responded on Twitter by writing, &#8220;I helped write the #GreenNewDeal and I think this is ridiculous. The tiny little emissions standard increase doesn’t even do anything meaningful to stave off climate change and gives the @GOP leverage to get rid of real help for working people. Solve the problem at hand.&#8221;
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I helped write the <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/GreenNewDeal?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#GreenNewDeal</a> and I think this is ridiculous.
The tiny little emissions standard increase doesn’t even do anything meaningful to stave off climate change and gives the <a href="https://twitter.com/GOP?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@GOP</a> leverage to get rid of real help for working people. 
Solve the problem at hand. <a href="https://t.co/KemaYkV7gn">https://t.co/KemaYkV7gn</a>
&mdash; Saikat Chakrabarti (@saikatc) <a href="https://twitter.com/saikatc/status/1242644083039862785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 25, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Pelosi had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-democrats-block-coronavirus-bill-that-provides-lifeline-to-economy-families">reportedly</a> ruined Senate talks between the Republicans and Democrats on Sunday, which postponed getting a bill done to protect American families and the economy for several days.
White House and Senate leaders reached a deal on a $2 trillion stimulus spending bill during the early morning hours on Wednesday.
The Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/03/24/trump-coronavirus-congress-economic-stimulus/">reported</a> (formatting adjusted):
<blockquote>The agreement capped five straight days of intensive negotiations that occasionally descended into partisan warfare as the nation’s economy reeled from the deadly pandemic, with schools and businesses closed, mass layoffs slamming the workforce and tens of thousands falling ill.
The legislation, unprecedented in its size and scope, aims to flood the economy with capital by sending $1,200 checks to many Americans, creating a $367 billion loan program for small businesses and setting up a $500 billion fund for industries, cities and states. Other provisions include a massive boost to unemployment insurance, $150 billion for state and local stimulus funds and $130 billion for hospitals. &#8230;
The Senate bill would direct payments of $1,200 to most American adults and $500 to most children, create a $500 billion lending program for companies, states and cities, and extend an additional $367 billion to help small companies deal with payroll problems. It would bolster the unemployment insurance system and pump $150 billion into U.S. hospitals. The bill more than doubled in size in just a few days.</blockquote>
White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/breaking-senate-white-house-strike-deal-on-2-trillion-stimulus-spending-bill">said</a> during a press conference on Tuesday that the multi-phase stimulus spending packages would total a staggering $6 trillion and would be the largest spending bill in history.
“This package will be the single largest main street assistance program in the history of the United States,” Kudlow said. “The single largest main street assistance program in the history of the United States.”
“This legislation is urgently needed to bolster the economy, provide cash injections and liquidity and stabilize financial markets to get us through a difficult period, a difficult and challenging period in the economy facing us right now but also to position us for what I think can be an economic rebound later this year,” Kudlow continued. “Phase two delivered the sick leave for individuals, hourly workers, families and so forth. Phase three, a significant package for small businesses, loan guarantees will be included. We’re going to take out expenses and lost revenues.”
“The total package here comes to roughly $6 trillion: $2 trillion direct assistance, roughly $4 trillion in federal reserve lending power,” Kudlow added. “Again, it will be the largest main street financial package in the history of the United States.”

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‘THIS IS RIDICULOUS’: AOC’s Ex-Top Aide Torches Pelosi For Coronavirus Stimulus Games

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Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) sounded the alarm Tuesday over the news that President Trump is proposing an $850 billion economic stimulus package, a majority of which will come in the form of payroll tax cuts, to help ease the economic distress caused by the coronavirus crisis.
The &#8220;Green New Deal&#8221; advocate and vocal Bernie Sanders supporter issued her complaint about Trump&#8217;s attempts to give Americans more post-tax paychecks in response to a report by Fox News Tuesday.
&#8220;[Fox News] has learned that [President Trump] will ask Congress for more than $800 billion in economic stimulus: $500 bil in payroll tax cut, $250 [billion] in Small Business Association loans, $58 billion for the airlines, and a smattering of other items,&#8221; Fox News Chief White House Correspondent John Roberts reported via Twitter Tuesday.
Trump&#8217;s proposal, said Ocasio-Cortez, is &#8220;unacceptable.&#8221;
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&#8220;This is unacceptable,&#8221; the left-wing congresswoman tweeted in response to the report. &#8220;Trump is using this public health crisis as an opportunity to push tax cuts and corporate bailouts.&#8221;
&#8220;This is an emergency,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We need to help vulnerable people [and] small biz now [with] paid leave, extended unemployment, UBI, Medicaid expansion, [and] mortgage suspensions.&#8221;
The radical representative followed her post listing various Democratic policy priorities by giving Trump one thing: the small business loans is &#8220;an acceptable consideration,&#8221; though she said she has her concerns about that idea, too.
&#8220;Expanding small biz loans is an acceptable consideration- but we must avoid allowing this crisis to put millions of people in insurmountable debt,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez wrote in a follow-up tweet.
She also doesn&#8217;t disagree with the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-wants-checks-sent-to-americans-within-next-two-weeks-in-virus-response">$1,000 checks</a> to every American proposed by Trump, but that was &#8220;not enough,&#8221; she stressed. &#8220;Checks to people are good and I applaud the proposal, but it’s not enough. But we need payment suspensions to get people through,&#8221; wrote the New York Democrat.
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This is unacceptable.
Trump is using this public health crisis as an opportunity to push tax cuts and corporate bailouts.
This is an emergency. We need to help vulnerable people &amp; small biz now w/ paid leave, extended unemployment, UBI, Medicaid expansion,&amp;mortgage suspensions. <a href="https://t.co/kOAK3sTFdK">https://t.co/kOAK3sTFdK</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1239957622796824576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Expanding small biz loans is an acceptable consideration- but we must avoid allowing this crisis to put millions of people in insurmountable debt.
Checks to people are good and I applaud the proposal, but it’s not enough. But we need payment suspensions to get people through.
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1239963132308553729?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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As reported by <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/as-senate-moves-on-second-coronavirus-bill-lawmakers-eye-big-money-for-third-pandemic-fighting-package">Fox News</a> Tuesday, while the Senate takes steps to pass another coronavirus relief bill, the White House is in talks with congressional leaders about a new significant stimulus proposal.
&#8220;Fox News has learned that the White House specifically is pushing an $850 billion stimulus, largely in the form of tax relief measures,&#8221; the network reported Tuesday. &#8220;Roughly $500 billion of this would be tied to a payroll tax cut, while $250 billion would come in the form of Small Business Administration loans and another $58 billion would be directed to the airline industry, among other measures.&#8221;
&#8220;The $850 billion package would come in addition to another roughly $100 billion package that aims to provide paid sick leave for impacted workers, though the details of that legislation remain very fluid as it moves through Congress,&#8221; <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/03/17/trump-coronavirus-stimulus-package/">The Washington Post</a> reported.
The news follows a Monday-night tweet from President Trump indicating that the federal government will take strong steps to help out struggling industries, particularly airlines.
&#8220;The United States will be powerfully supporting those industries, like Airlines and others, that are particularly affected by the Chinese Virus. We will be stronger than ever before!&#8221; Trump tweeted.
Along with voicing complaints about Trump&#8217;s proposed stimulus package on Tuesday, Ocasio-Cortez also took aim at the coronavirus-hit airlines Trump mentioned in his tweet.
&#8220;96% of airline profits over the last decade went to buying up their own stocks to juice the price &#8211; not raising wages or other investments,&#8221; she tweeted. &#8220;If there is so much as a DIME of corporate bailout money in the next relief package, it should include a reinstated ban on stock buybacks.&#8221;
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96% of airline profits over the last decade went to buying up their own stocks to juice the price &#8211; not raising wages or other investments.
If there is so much as a DIME of corporate bailout money in the next relief package, it should include a reinstated ban on stock buybacks.
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1239981917057015809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 17, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; (I-VT) advisors are laying the groundwork for possible objections to the ultimate delegate count, suggesting on national cable news programs that entities, including various states and the Democratic party as a whole, are working to &#8220;supress&#8221; Sanders&#8217; supporters votes.
Sanders and former Vice President Joe Biden are going head to head in three states Tuesday, Illinois, Florida, and Arizona. Ohio was slated to have a primary contest Tuesday but, after a protracted legal battle that went deep into Monday night, the state&#8217;s governor effectively postponed the contest, rescheduling the vote until the summer, when the threat of coronavirus has, hopefully, passed.
Biden is expected to win all three contests by a substantial margin. In Florida, the former Veep leads in polls by more than 40 points. In Illinois, Biden leads by 20 points and, in some Congressional disticts, by as much as 70 points. In Arizona, Biden is likely to win by between 20 and 30 points.
Until yesterday, Biden was also leading in Ohio. But by the time that primary surfaces yet again, he may well have snagged the 1,991 delegates he needs to secure the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
Until a few weeks ago, Sanders&#8217; campaign was still holding out hope that, at the very worst, they could force a brokered convention. Now, it seems, they are hoping to delegitimize Biden&#8217;s win by suggesting the DNC conspired with state parties and voting authorities to keep Sanders&#8217; supporters from the polls.
On Monday, Sanders adviser Phillip Agnew told CNN that holding certain primaries, including last week&#8217;s primary in Mississippi, during college spring breaks was a form of &#8220;voter suppression,&#8221; given that Bernie Sanders&#8217; core demographic is voters under the age of 35.
&#8220;There were a number of black colleges who were on spring break during Election Day,&#8221; Agnew said. &#8220;So we are up against rampant voter suppression efforts that are pushing young black folks out of the booth.&#8221;
“I think across the board, the Democratic Party has a lot of work to do to make sure that young black folks and older black folks have access to the ballot box,” Agnew added. “And our campaign is proud to actually been a part of that. And it’s not just our campaign. Across the board, we got a lot of work to do.”
The vote in Mississippi wasn&#8217;t close; Joe Biden won the state 80% to 20%. College students were certainly not the difference between a Sanders win and a Sanders loss &#8212; and holding primaries a week earlier or later probably would not have given Sanders an edge, particularly given that, across the board, Sanders&#8217; supporters have been willing to attend rallies but less willing to cast ballots.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) now famously made the same claim about young voters in Michigan who were &#8220;suppressed&#8221; because same-day voter registration lines at the Ann Arbor, Michigan, city clerk&#8217;s offices were sometimes hours long &#8212; even though college students could have registered to vote at any time before last Tuesday&#8217;s primary.
&#8220;I think one thing that isn’t being talked about is the rampant voter suppression in this country,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez told Fox News. &#8220;Right there, in Ann Arbor, where we had that rally, those kids were waiting three hours in line to vote in Michigan.&#8221;
But, the Detroit News reported, Ocasio-Cortez had her story wrong.
&#8220;The long lines were at clerks&#8217; offices, not polling stations, multiple election officials said. At the clerks&#8217; offices, some voters, especially in college areas, waited in line to register to vote on Election Day before casting their ballots,&#8221; a spokesperson for Michigan&#8217;s Secretary of State, Democrat Jocelyn Benson, reportedly told the paper.
A change, which allowed for same-day registration &#8220;significantly increased the Election Day workload for local election clerks,&#8221; the spokesperson added. &#8220;Our office worked to provide them extra support, but long lines were unavoidable when, late in the day, thousands of same-day registrants simultaneously went to a handful of clerks’ offices.&#8221;
Ann Arbor&#8217;s city clerk attacked Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s statements directly: &#8220;That&#8217;s simply not true and to state that is misleading,&#8221; she said.&#8221;In fact, there were hardly any wait times anywhere in the city, except at city hall to register to vote.&#8221;

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Bernie Sanders Advisor Suggests Holding Elections While Colleges Are On Spring Break Is ‘Voter Supression’

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<a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-campaign-rallies_n_5e6ade51c5b6bd8156f44356?6ukb">HuffPost reports</a> that Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), the head of the &#8220;Democratic socialist&#8221; movement in Congress and once a star surrogate for Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), has &#8220;backed away&#8221; from the Sanders campaign and is refusing to stump for the Senator amid a disagreement over podcast host Joe Rogan.
Ocasio-Cortez hit the trail for Sanders in Iowa, stumping for Sanders in college towns where Democratic socialism is a major draw and, some experts contend, could have been responsible for Sanders&#8217; narrow Iowa win. But after Sanders&#8217; team touted a clip from Rogan&#8217;s show, in which the controversial host said he&#8217;d likely cast his Democratic primary vote for Sanders, things got frosty.
&#8220;After the Iowa caucuses, Sanders campaign manager Faiz Shakir asked Ocasio-Cortez to stump for Sanders in New Hampshire, according to the sources,&#8221; per HuffPo. &#8220;The campaign prepared a model schedule to highlight the kind of popular support she would expect if she attended, one of the people familiar with the talks said.&#8221;
The campaign was ultimately able to drag Ocasio-Cortez out to New Hampshire for an apperance alongside the rock band, The Strokes, but a person familiar with the negotiations told HuffPo that it was like &#8220;pulling teeth&#8221; to get the New York Democrat to agree to the trip.
After New Hampshire, Ocasio-Cortez took a three-week vacation from the Sanders campaign, reappearing only last week at a Sanders rally at the University of Michigan.
&#8220;The absence of the popular progressive lawmaker on the trail in the weeks that followed was even more notable. In nearly a month that passed from Feb. 11  until March 8 ― two days before the Michigan primary ― Ocasio-Cortez declined multiple invitations from Sanders’ campaign to speak on his behalf in Nevada, South Carolina and the 14 states that voted on Super Tuesday,&#8221; Huffpo said.
She appeared on cable news the day after the Michigan primary to help deflect blame from Sanders over his loss,<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/aoc-voter-suppression-bernie-sanders-michigan-primary"> suggesting to Fox News</a> that young voters had been &#8220;suppressed&#8221; because they were forced to wait in line, even though many of them waited until the day of the primary to register to vote.
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s chief complaint seems to be that Sanders&#8217; team won&#8217;t disavow Rogan, whom she claims is hostile towards LGBT causes and is &#8220;transphobic.&#8221; She, along with other progressives, felt that the Sanders campaign&#8217;s attempt to welcome supporters into a &#8220;big tent&#8221; was misguided and that Democrats should narrow their focus, pressing progressive bona fides as a way of determining Sanders&#8217; true supporters.
All was not well from Sanders&#8217; side of the equation, though. Although Ocasio-Cortez was a powerful surrogate for the Vermont socialist, the Sanders&#8217; campaign was reportedly concerned she was focused on raising her own profile and not Bernie&#8217;s.
&#8220;Shakir apparently communicated to Ocasio-Cortez his dissatisfaction over her remarks about alerting the presence of immigration authorities,&#8221; HuffPo reported. &#8220;While Sanders has sought to scrap and restructure the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency in its current form, his campaign has been trying to avoid the impression that it was encouraging noncooperation with federal law as it exists, according to one source.&#8221;
They were also concerned that, at one Iowa rally, she never actually mentioned Sanders by name.
The Sanders campaign denied that they were ill-at-ease with Ocasio-Cortez, however, and that Shakir ever spoke to Ocasio-Cortez about changing her approach.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has ‘Backed Away’ From Sanders Campaign, Won’t Stump For Bernie Until He Disavows Joe Rogan

Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX), who is currently in <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/487418-ted-cruz-extending-self-quarantine-after-second-coronavirus-interaction">self-isolation</a> after he interacted with someone with coronavirus, commended the mitigation advice that Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) posted Saturday morning on Twitter.
“To everyone in NYC but ESPECIALLY healthy people &amp; people under 40 (bc from what I’m observing that’s who needs to hear this again,” said Ocasio-Cortez. “PLEASE stop crowding bars, restaurants, and public spaces right now. Eat your meals at home. If you are healthy, you could be spreading COVID.”
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To everyone in NYC but ESPECIALLY healthy people &amp; people under 40 (bc from what I’m observing that’s who needs to hear this again):
PLEASE stop crowding bars, restaurants, and public spaces right now. Eat your meals at home.
If you are healthy, you could be spreading COVID.
— Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1238860728565747714?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
In a response message, Cruz commended AOC’s tweet, and emphasized the importance of taking precautions to stop the spread of coronavirus: “Good advice — not just for NYC, but everywhere. If you can stay home, stay home. And wash your hands.”
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Good advice — not just for NYC, but everywhere.
If you can stay home, stay home.
And wash your hands. <a href="https://t.co/WOcTclI7Ki">https://t.co/WOcTclI7Ki</a>
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1238957310787170307?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
U.S. Surgeon General Jerome Adams chimed in on Cruz’s response to the Democratic congresswoman, saying that it shows the importance of coming together to address the health crisis directly.
“Two people who don’t agree on much, coming together to promote health and safety,” said Adams. “I love our country and know we can do this. Now is the time to spend as much of our energy as possible helping people understand how to protect themselves and each other.”
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I ❤️ this 👇🏽
Two people who don’t agree on much, coming together to promote health and safety.
I love our country and know we can do this. Now is the time to spend as much of our energy as possible helping people understand how to protect themselves and each other! <a href="https://t.co/sCJGhjmRF7">https://t.co/sCJGhjmRF7</a>
— U.S. Surgeon General (@Surgeon_General) <a href="https://twitter.com/Surgeon_General/status/1238970992900419589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 14, 2020</a></blockquote>
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-GA), who is currently in the coronavirus’ European epicenter of Italy, published an op-ed in <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/newt-gingrich-i-am-italy-amid-coronavirus-crisis-america-must-act-now-act-big-opinion-1492270">Newsweek</a> on Friday encouraging Americans to take precautions against the coronavirus, and advised that Italy’s decision to effectively quarantine itself entirely was not an over-reaction.
<blockquote>The hardest-hit region around Milan has had to improvise as its health system has been deeply stressed by the sheer number of patients. In Milan and Brescia, field hospitals have been set up in the fairgrounds as the local hospitals have been drowned in patients.
Because the demand for respirators and intensive care has been beyond any previous planning, doctors have been forced into the kind of triage thinking developed for intense battlefield casualty situations. There are reports that emergency room doctors are allotting respirators to those with higher life expectancy due to the limited equipment in the hardest hit areas of the province. If you are older or have other illnesses, you may simply not be eligible for treatment.</blockquote>
According to <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-italy-update-young-people-hospital-luca-lorini-bergamo-a9402531.html">The Independent</a>, Italian doctors have begun seeing more patients under the age of 50 requiring hospitalization.
“People are arriving who got ill six or seven days ago and treated themselves at home – and then their condition became more and more critical,” said Dr. Luca Lorini, the head of anesthesia at a hospital in northern Italy, reports the news agency.
As of Saturday evening, Italy had a total of 21,157 diagnosed cases of coronavirus, approximately 3,500 of which were diagnosed in the last 24 hours alone, reports the <a href="https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/national/coronavirus/about-3-500-new-covid-19-cases-confirmed-in-italy-in-24-hour-span">Associated Press</a>.
According to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-us-cases.html">The New York Times</a>, the United States has had 2,443 people diagnosed with coronavirus across 49 states, and the number is only expected to grow.

Ted Cruz Commends AOC’s Coronavirus Tweet As ‘Good Advice,’ Receives Praise From Surgeon General

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Prior to socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; (I-VT) chances of becoming the Democratic Party nominee being all-but-torpedoed, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) had reportedly denied multiple requests to campaign for her beloved mentor. According to <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-sanders-campaign-rallies_n_5e6ade51c5b6bd8156f44356">HuffPost</a>, sources say that Ocasio-Cortez actually resisted campaigning for Sanders up until the New Hampshire primary.
“It was like pulling teeth to get her to New Hampshire,” one source told the outlet.
Beyond New Hampshire, Ocasio-Cortez denied multiple requests from the Sanders campaign all the way through Super Tuesday. She did not campaign for him again until March 8, just two days before the all-important-primary in Michigan.
&#8220;Ocasio-Cortez declined multiple invitations from Sanders’ campaign to speak on his behalf in Nevada, South Carolina and the 14 states that voted on Super Tuesday, the three people told HuffPost,&#8221; the outlet reported. &#8220;During that period, Sanders rose and fell quickly, going from the uncontested front-runner after Nevada’s Feb. 22 contest to a heavy underdog after a blowout in South Carolina on Feb. 29 and Super Tuesday routs on March 3.&#8221;
&#8220;As an embattled Sanders prepared to mount an unsuccessful stand against former Vice President Joe Biden in Michigan on Tuesday, the campaign again turned to Ocasio-Cortez for help,&#8221; the report continued. &#8220;She agreed at the last minute to deliver a speech on Sunday at a get-out-the-vote rally on the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor. Sanders’ campaign issued a revised media advisory about the rally the night before, informing the press that Ocasio-Cortez would be present.&#8221;
Though neither the Sanders campaign nor the office of Ocasio-Cortez has denied the story, Faiz Shakir, campaign manager for Bernie Sanders, praised Ocasio-Cortez for her <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/aoc-endorses-bernie-sanders-2020-presidential-candidate_n_5da68590e4b062bdcb1a8742" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:10;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk">mid-October endorsement.</a>
“Senator Sanders and our campaign will never forget that in one of the most difficult moments for us, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez gave us a boost with her strong endorsement,” Shakir said. “And she has remained a steady and consistent ally, supporter, surrogate and adviser to the senator ever since.”
Reportedly, Occasio-Cortez and the Bernie Sanders campaign had escalated tensions over the fact that the socialist senator from Vermont publicly accepted the endorsement from podcast host Joe Rogan.
Lauren Hitt, a spokeswoman for Ocasio-Cortez, denied any tensions with the campaign. “The plan was always that she would slow down her surrogate work in February, after Iowa, to focus on her re-elect and congressional duties,” Hitt said.
<div class="content-list-component yr-content-list-text text" data-rapid-cpos="21" data-rapid-subsec="paragraph" data-rapid-parsed="subsec">The report about AOC&#8217;s alleged tension with Bernie Sanders comes just one week after she publicly stated that she would back former Vice President Joe Biden if he were the nominee.</div>
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“I’ve said throughout this entire process that what is so important is that we ultimately unite behind who that Democratic nominee is,” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hard-core-bernie-supporter-aoc-i-will-back-biden-if-he-is-the-nominee">Ocasio-Cortez said</a> to late-night comedian Seth Meyers last week.
The congresswoman added that she believes this to be a “two-way street” and denounced both sides who said they would not support the other if they were the nominee.
“And I think it’s a two-way street,” she said. “I’ve been concerned by some folks that say if Bernie’s the nominee, they won’t support him, and the other way around. This is more important than all of us. We really need to make sure that we defeat Donald Trump at the polls, assuming, and knowing, how insane it’s going to get between now and then.”
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Presidential Candidate Bernie Sanders holds Town Hall In Perry, Iowa

REPORT: AOC Refused To Campaign For Bernie Sanders Multiple Times

On Thursday, democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) violated her personal ban on Fox News and appeared on &#8220;Special Report with Bret Baier&#8221; in order to push her policy agenda in response to the coronavirus pandemic but ended up spending more time trying to explain why Sen. Bernie Sanders&#8217; socialist &#8220;revolution&#8221; was running out of steam.
&#8220;Hey all, wanted to drop a [post] for accountability,&#8221; the freshman representative tweeted Thursday ahead of the interview. &#8220;I usually don’t go on FOX on principle, but misinformation about coronavirus has made me concerned about risk. As a result I decided to go on [Bret Baier] to discuss coronavirus response [and] make the case for paid leave, Medicaid, etc.&#8221;
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Hey all, wanted to drop a📝 for accountability.
I usually don’t go on FOX on principle, but misinformation about coronavirus has made me concerned about risk.
As a result I decided to go on <a href="https://twitter.com/BretBaier?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@BretBaier</a> to discuss coronavirus response + make the case for paid leave, Medicaid, etc
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1238234456588201985?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 12, 2020</a></blockquote>
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In the interview, Ocasio-Cortez pushed for Democratic policies, including federally mandated paid sick leave and expanded Medicaid, which, Republicans have pointed out, are among the left-wing party&#8217;s larger agenda items rather than being specifically geared toward response to the COVID-19 crisis.
She also took a few shots at the U.S., saying it&#8217;s &#8220;debatable&#8221; whether America has the world&#8217;s best health care system, as noted by <a href="https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-coronavirus-fox-news-095849874.html">HuffPost</a>. Faulting the U.S. for not providing more access to COVID-19 testing, the radical rep said, &#8220;It almost seems the more wealthy and powerful you are, the more able you are to access a test.&#8221; (Full interview below.)
Following the interview, she highlighted that quote and again pushed for the expansion of coronavirus testing: &#8220;We need to dramatically expand <a class="css-4rbku5 css-18t94o4 css-901oao css-16my406 r-1n1174f r-1loqt21 r-1qd0xha r-ad9z0x r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0" dir="ltr" role="link" href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID%E3%83%BC19?src=hashtag_click" data-focusable="true">#COVIDー19</a> testing and *processing* capacity. It’s imperative to our public health that everyone who needs a test can get it easily and for free as quickly as possible &#8211; no matter whether you’re a sports star or a single parent.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez followed that post up with a retweet of a Brian Stelter post slamming Fox News hosts: &#8220;Anonymous Fox producer: As the virus spreads, &#8216;the attempt to deflect and blame the media and Democrats from Trish Regan, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lou Dobbs, Jesse Watters, and Greg Gutfeld&#8230; is really irresponsible and hazardous to our viewers,'&#8221; wrote Stelter in the retweeted post.
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We need to dramatically expand <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/COVID%E3%83%BC19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#COVIDー19</a> testing and *processing* capacity.
It’s imperative to our public health that everyone who needs a test can get it easily and for free as quickly as possible &#8211; no matter whether you’re a sports star or a single parent. <a href="https://t.co/CbEibvr8r9">https://t.co/CbEibvr8r9</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1238271978668089344?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Anonymous Fox producer: As the virus spreads, &quot;the attempt to deflect and blame the media and Democrats from Trish Regan, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Lou Dobbs, Jesse Watters, and Greg Gutfeld&#8230; is really irresponsible and hazardous to our viewers&quot; <a href="https://t.co/Cl1QPoMc2s">https://t.co/Cl1QPoMc2s</a>
&mdash; Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) <a href="https://twitter.com/brianstelter/status/1238427822819028993?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 13, 2020</a></blockquote>
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While Ocasio-Cortez chose to make her first appearance on Fox News in order to promote her policy agenda, as <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-suggests-bernie-lost-michigan-by-260000-votes-because-of-democrat-voter-suppression">The Daily Wire</a> reported, she ended up finding herself explaining why the candidate for whom she&#8217;s been, as Baier put it, the &#8220;most prominent surrogate&#8221; is increasingly getting trounced by former Vice President Joe Biden in the primary.
One of the reasons Sanders is losing, Ocasio-Cortez claimed, is voter suppression in Democratic Party-run primaries.
&#8220;You did a campaign event at the University of Michigan, 10,000 people, it was rock star status, but those kids did not show up at least if you look at the numbers, just overall this race. So, how can you say the progressive position is still prevailing nationwide when Joe Biden is winning so much?&#8221; Baier asked.
&#8220;Well, I think one thing that isn’t being talked about is that rampant voter suppression in this country,&#8221; said Ocasio-Cortez. &#8220;Right there in Ann Arbor where we had that rally, those kids were waiting three hours in line to vote in Michigan. And so, when we talk about who’s turning out and who’s not turning out, we absolutely —&#8221;
&#8220;So, just to be clear, you’re saying you think voters didn’t get to vote who wanted to vote in Michigan?&#8221; asked Baier.
&#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; she replied. &#8220;Obviously, there’s more that we need to do in terms of turning out youth voters, it’s, we need to make sure we are inspiring young people to turn out, but when you do turn out, you should not be waiting three, four, seven hours in order to vote and that causes people to leave.&#8221;
Watch AOC&#8217;s interview with Baier below via Fox News:
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Ocasio-Cortez Breaks Her Ban On Fox News To Push Coronavirus Policies, Promotes Tweet Slamming Fox Afterward

Bret Baier

Fox News

The media has cried &#8220;wolf&#8221; many times about a whole string of natural disasters that never materialized and epidemics that fizzled out. When I first heard about the coronavirus, I thought this was another of those occasions. But the whole point of the Boy Who Cried Wolf fable is that eventually the wolf actually shows up. It now appears that COVID-19 is our wolf.
It is hard for us – hard for me, I admit – to accept that something so primitive as a viral epidemic could intrude into our comfortable, safe, modern lives and turn it all upside down. But that is happening right now, whether we choose to accept it or not. Governments across the world have quarantined entire populations. Some have gone so far as to <a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/615329/coronavirus-south-korea-smartphone-app-quarantine/">track</a> their infected citizens with GPS. In Italy, where the mortality rate is 5 percent, doctors are so overwhelmed that they are having to choose which patients to treat. Worldwide there have been close to 135 thousand confirmed cases and 5,000 deaths. These numbers are trending up, drastically, and medical experts warn it will get much <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/coronavirus-forecasts-are-grim-its-going-to-get-worse/2020/03/11/2a177e0a-63b4-11ea-acca-80c22bbee96f_story.html">worse</a> before it gets better.
Here in the United States, there are over 1,300 reported cases just two weeks after President Trump reported there were 15 cases that &#8220;within a couple of days&#8221; would be &#8220;down to close to zero.&#8221; The number of reported cases is expected to grow exponentially, and those are only the reported cases. Very few Americans have been tested. In fact, we&#8217;ve tested about half as many people – total – as South Korea tests in one day.
Doctors, epidemiologists, and health organizations are warning that this virus <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/03/where-do-you-go-if-you-get-coronavirus/607759/">is not like the flu.</a> It&#8217;s deadlier (about ten times deadlier, says Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases), potentially more transmissible, can live in a patient <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-12/coronavirus-can-live-in-patients-for-five-weeks-after-contagion">for up to 37 days</a> after first contact, and can move from your respiratory system to attack other vital organs. It&#8217;s not true that this is an &#8220;old person&#8217;s disease.&#8221; The mortality rate for the elderly is startlingly high, yes, <a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-age-sex-demographics/">but it&#8217;s</a> 13 times higher than the flu for people in their 50s, 4 times higher in the 40s, and twice as deadly for everyone between the ages of 10 and 39. Fortunately, it seems to be sparing children. But children can still carry the disease and transmit it to their parents and grandparents.
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These factors explain why organizations like the NCAA and Disney have chosen to forfeit many billions of dollars by shutting down their basketball season and theme parks, respectively. We can&#8217;t chalk this up to simple panic. Businesses don&#8217;t throw billions of dollars in the trash on an emotional whim. Meanwhile, states and towns are banning large gatherings, shuttering government buildings, closing schools, etc. Perhaps these measures will prove to be overkill. But the testimony of most experts in the field seems to rather strongly suggest that the consequence of a lack of caution would likely be much, much worse than the consequence of too much caution.
All of this to say, it&#8217;s a damn shame we have a collection of partisan hacks and useless buffoons leading us through this crisis. It was reported today that Nancy Pelosi tried to <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/12/donald-trump-nancy-pelosi-coronavirus-stimulus-hyde-amendment-abortion-funding-white-house-allegations/">jam funding</a> for abortion into the coronavirus economic stimulus package. Other Democrats have <a href="https://thefederalist.com/2020/03/12/biden-calls-trump-racist-for-stating-the-fact-that-wuhan-virus-began-in-china/">spent their time</a> accusing Trump of racism for accurately reporting that the virus originated in China. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/aoc-chinese-restaurants-racism-coronavirus">decided</a> that &#8220;straight up racism&#8221; is to blame for people not &#8220;patroning Chinese restaurants.&#8221; Someone let the congresswoman know that people are avoiding restaurants in general. Am I anti-Italian if I cancel my reservation at Olive Garden? Also, let her know that &#8220;patroning&#8221; isn&#8217;t a word. The Democratic governor of Washington, the state hardest hit by the virus so far, responded to a supportive call from Vice President Pence by <a href="https://twitter.com/JayInslee/status/1233242710036762625">bashing him on Twitter</a>.
President Trump has not performed much better. After contradicting his own officials to predict the coronavirus would virtually disappear from the United States after the first 15 cases, Trump attempted desperately for days to minimize the severity of the crisis. Again contradicting the medical experts in his own administration, he <a href="https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/1237027356314869761">insinuated</a> that we shouldn&#8217;t be as concerned about this as we are about the regular flu. When asked about the lack of testing, he <a href="https://thehill.com/homenews/news/486404-trump-compares-coronavirus-tests-to-ukraine-call-the-tests-are-all-perfect">bizarrely</a> politicized the issue by bringing the transcript of his Ukraine call into it, answering that both the tests and the call were &#8220;perfect.&#8221; It may not be entirely the Administration&#8217;s fault that our testing has lagged far behind most of the developed world, but the buck stops with Trump whether he likes it or not. And rambling about &#8220;perfect&#8221; tests doesn&#8217;t instill the American people with confidence that he understands the severity of the situation. Neither did the picture he tweeted of himself literally fiddling in the midst of a global pandemic. His address from the Oval Office was adequate at best, and that&#8217;s being generous. Banning travel from Europe is an important step, though not enough was said about domestic containment measures. But in terms of boosting national morale and uniting the country, the speech, both in content and delivery, was a dud.
Conservatives will want to make this all a story of Democrats politicizing an epidemic. Liberals will want to make it about Trump fumbling and bumbling and wasting crucial days early on downplaying the situation and whispering sweet nothings into our ears. The story is both of these things. It is ultimately a story of a dysfunctional government run by people who are not interested in coming together in a dire time to steer us toward calmer and safer waters.
This is a moment that calls for a seriousness of purpose and a disregard for political point-tallying that is beyond the capacities of the overgrown children we have elected to lead us. So, batten down the hatches. The Washington clown show isn&#8217;t saving us. Whatever happens, we&#8217;ll have to handle it the good old fashioned American way: on our own.

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) suggested on Thursday night that socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) lost the Michigan Democratic primary because the Democrats used &#8220;voter suppression.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez, who made the remarks during her first interview with Fox News, made the suggestion when asked by anchor Bret Baier about why she keeps saying that the far-left has a winning message when it is getting blown out all over the country.
&#8220;You did a campaign event at the University of Michigan, 10,000 people, it was rock star status, but those kids did not show up at least if you look at the numbers, just overall this race,&#8221; Baier said. &#8220;So, how can you say the progressive position is still prevailing nationwide when Joe Biden is winning so much?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I think one thing that isn’t being talked about is that rampant voter suppression in this country,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;Right there in Ann Arbor where we had that rally, those kids were waiting three hours in line to vote in Michigan. And so, when we talk about who’s turning out and who’s not turning out, we absolutely —&#8221;
&#8220;So, just to be clear, you’re saying you think voters didn’t get to vote who wanted to vote in Michigan?&#8221; Baier pressed.
&#8220;Absolutely,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez claimed. &#8220;Obviously, there’s more that we need to do in terms of turning out youth voters, it’s, uh, we need to make sure we are inspiring young people to turn out, but when you do turn out, you should not be waiting three, four, seven hours in order to vote and that causes people to leave.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s suggestion that Sanders lost in Michigan and performed poorly in Ann Arbor because of &#8220;voter suppression&#8221; is a direct attack on the Democrat-controlled state and local goverment.
Michigan&#8217;s state government is controlled by Democrats and elections are overseen by Democrat Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, whose <a href="https://www.michigan.gov/sos/0,4670,7-127-1640_9105---,00.html">job</a> is &#8220;ensuring elections are secure and accessible.&#8221;
Ann Arbor is <a href="https://annarborobserver.com/cg/t0014.html#.XmrQI6hKiUl">also</a> controlled by Democrats.
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Earlier in the interview, Baier asked Ocasio-Cortez, &#8220;You are Bernie Sanders most prominent surrogate, was it difficult to witness his kind of swift fault from front runner status. He is almost a protest candidate now, your thoughts on that?&#8221;
&#8220;Well, I think one of the things that we saw with Bernie Sanders’s leadership, even today is how transformative it is for the American people. Just today he laid out a very strong plan in response to the Coronavirus for everyday people, for main street, not just Wall Street,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;He’s talking about, how do we make sure that everyone with access to Medicare could get it and that that Medicare is improved and expanded.  How do we make sure people aren’t booted out of their homes whether it’s not being able to afford their mortgage payment this month or not being able to afford their rent payments?&#8221;
&#8220;But it does seem like Joe Biden is on his way to the nomination, are you worried he’s not going to be saying those things?&#8221; Baier pressed.
Ocasio-Cortez responded, &#8220;Well, you know, I think this part of our process is to make sure we come together, I think there’s going to be a real vigorous debate I believe on Sunday night if I’m not mistaken and part of that process means I think we will come together and I think Bernie Sanders has done a great job and is continuing to do a great job of pushing to make sure we have a party agenda that fights for working people.&#8221;

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) panicked on Tuesday night in response to Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden having a strong night in the Democratic primary race, saying that she is &#8220;overall, 100%, legitimately&#8221; concerned about the climate.
Ocasio-Cortez, who backed socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), made the remarks late during an Instagram Live video after results poured in from the six states that held presidential nomination contests.
Biden blew out Sanders in Idaho, Michigan, Mississippi, and Missouri. The two other contests — Washington and North Dakota — were slightly leaning towards Sanders and were too close to call.
&#8220;One thing that I do, that I am concerned about, um, overall, 100%, legitimately, is in our climate,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said. &#8220;And I’m legitimately concerned about, uh, fossil fuels. I’m legitimately concerned about what this means for a just transition. I’m legitimately concerned about what this means for carbon emissions.&#8221;
&#8220;And we’re going to have to organize a lot — there are many, many issues where people’s lives are on the line,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez continued. &#8220;Whether it’s pursuing decarceral policy, whether it’s making sure that we have humanity at our border, whether it’s, you know, making sure that women have access to reproduct — not just women, all people, have access to reproductive health care. All of these things are life and death issues but, the scale and the feedback and the irreversible nature of climate change is something that I think we need to really pay a lot of close attention to and that’s something that is really top of mind whenever I think about any election, particularly one as decisive as a presidential election.&#8221;
&#8220;So, you know, those — a lot of what we need to focus on, as always as we have always has as we have always needed to focus on are the issues,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez rambled. &#8220;And that’s something that the good news that we have tonight is that’s one area where we are winning.&#8221;
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Ocasio-Cortez on Joe Biden winning: “Um, one thing that I do, that I am concerned about, um, overall, 100%, legitimately, is in our climate. And, um, I’m legitimately concerned about, uh, fossil fuels. I’m legitimately concerned about what this means for a just transition.” <a href="https://t.co/jJvkX9PKrl">pic.twitter.com/jJvkX9PKrl</a>
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About 30 minutes later, Ocasio-Cortez went on a rant accusing people of being racist if they were not eating at Chinese and Asian restaurants if they were worried about the coronavirus.
&#8220;Honestly, it sounds almost so silly to say, but there’s a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said during an Instagram Live video. &#8220;Where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants, uh, they’re not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight up racism around the coronavirus.&#8221;
Top Democrats rallied around Biden after his sound beat back of Sanders, with some going as far as saying that the remaining primaries and debates should be canceled to protect Biden.
House Majority Whip Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jim-clyburn-shut-down-primaries-debates-to-protect-biden-from-saying-something-he-cannot-overcome">told</a> NPR, “I think when the night is over, Joe Biden will be the prohibitive favorite to win the Democratic nomination, and quite frankly, if the night ends the way it has begun, I think it is time for us to shut this primary down, it is time for us to cancel the rest of these debates — because you don’t do anything but get yourself in trouble if you continue in this contest when it’s obvious that the numbers will not shake out for you.”
Clyburn later added that as the process continues to drag on that Biden will get “himself into trouble” and will say something that he “cannot overcome.”

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Democratic socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed on Tuesday night that people who are avoiding going to Chinese and Asian restaurants right now are racist because they are fearful of contracting the coronavirus.
&#8220;Honestly, it sounds almost so silly to say, but there’s a lot of restaurants that are feeling the pain of racism,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez said during an Instagram Live video. &#8220;Where people are literally not patroning Chinese restaurants, uh, they’re not patroning Asian restaurants because of just straight up racism around the coronavirus.&#8221;
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Ocasio-Cortez says people are not eating at Chinese and Asian restaurants right now because they are &quot;just straight up&quot; racist about the coronavirus <a href="https://t.co/egtpRDEDhO">pic.twitter.com/egtpRDEDhO</a>
&mdash; Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) <a href="https://twitter.com/RealSaavedra/status/1237635963800543232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 11, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Far-left journalists and Democrat politicians have claimed that calling the coronavirus by a name that denotes its place of origin, China, is racist.
But, as the American Council on Science and Health <a href="https://www.acsh.org/news/2020/03/09/msnbcs-david-gura-thinks-all-microbiologists-are-racists-14624">reported</a> on Monday, &#8220;historically, microbiologists named new diseases after locations, animals or people&#8221;:
<blockquote>Historically, microbiologists named new diseases after locations, animals or people. To this day, flu strains are named after the city in which they were first isolated.
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There&#8217;s another problem with accusing the name &#8220;Wuhan virus&#8221; of being racist. All influenza strains are named after the location in which they were first isolated.
This isn&#8217;t done because of racism. It&#8217;s done because it helps epidemiologists track the viruses. Once again, things could get awfully confusing if influenza strains were named &#8220;Flu #3296&#8221; and &#8220;Flu #9114.&#8221;
As usual, America&#8217;s pathological obsession with racism misfires again.</blockquote>
Numerous diseases are named after their place of origin, including places within the United States.
&#8220;In 1968, 150 students at Bronson Elementary School in Norwalk, Ohio, became very sick with vomiting and diarrhea. It took researchers four years and many stool samples to determine that the culprit was what at the time was called, alternately, &#8216;winter sickness,&#8217; &#8216;winter vomiting bug,&#8217; or stomach flu,&#8221; Stat <a href="https://www.statnews.com/2017/10/24/etymology-disease-names/">reported</a>. &#8220;Once investigators isolated and identified the virus that caused the outbreak of Norwalk, the city’s name became the virus’s name. As similar viruses sickened others in subsequent years, doctors began using the norovirus as an umbrella term for the Norwalk virus and its cousins.&#8221;
Other examples include:
<ul>
<li>Guinea Worm; named after the Guinea coast of West Africa.</li>
<li>West Nile Virus; named after the river in Africa.</li>
<li>Ross River Fever; named after a river in Australia.</li>
<li>MERS; stands for Middle East respiratory syndrome.</li>
<li>Ebola; named for a river in Africa.</li>
<li>Omsk Hemorrhagic Fever; named after Omsk, Russia.</li>
<li>Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, named after a mountain range in the U.S.</li>
<li>Lyme Disease; named after a town in Connecticut.</li>
</ul>
Some political commentators have noted that one of the reasons that the political Left does not want the coronavirus to be called something that identifies that it came from China is that it limits their ability to politicize anything bad that happens in the U.S. and use it as a weapon to attack President Donald Trump.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has sought in recent years to not name diseases after places and to use &#8220;neutral terms.&#8221; Science Magazine <a href="https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/05/discovered-disease-who-has-new-rules-avoiding-offensive-names">reported</a> that the WHO&#8217;s new methodology is not necessarily a good thing:
<blockquote>Many scientists agree that disease names can be problematic, but they aren’t sure the new rulebook is necessarily an improvement. “It will certainly lead to boring names and a lot of confusion,” predicts Linfa Wang, an expert on emerging infectious diseases at the Australian Animal Health Laboratory in Geelong. “You should not take political correctness so far that in the end no one is able to distinguish these diseases,” says Christian Drosten, a virologist at the University of Bonn, Germany.</blockquote>
Furthermore, those who propagate the false claim that identifying that the coronavirus by its geographic origin is racist are helping promote propaganda from communist China. Investigative reporter Jordan Schachtel <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/calling-coronavirus-wuhan-virus-isnt-racist-but-china-wants-you-to-think-it-is">reported</a>:
<blockquote>On Feb. 24, the state-controlled China Daily proclaimed that identifying the latest coronavirus as the Wuhan virus or other terms referring to its Chinese origin is “racist, discriminatory, and distasteful.”
On Feb. 16, the state-controlled Global Times published a piece declaring that critiques of China’s negligence concerning the Wuhan virus, such as the labeling of China as a “disease incubator,” is a clear sign of “xenophobia” and “racism” against China.
In early February, Communist Party authorities expressed outrage at a Der Spiegel article that described the coronavirus as “Made in China.” Beijing called the news report “racist” and a clear example of “discrimination and xenophobia.”</blockquote>

Ocasio-Cortez: People Not Going To Asian Restaurants Because They’re Racist About Coronavirus

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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is hard at work on the campaign trail, pounding the pavement for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) &#8212; even appearing at a rally Sunday in Michigan, a must-win state for Sanders.
Saturday night, though, Ocasio-Cortez faced the wrath of Sanders&#8217; online supporter army, the so-called &#8220;Bernie Bros&#8221; for lavishing tepid praise on Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), who signed off of her own presidential campaign with a surprise appearance on &#8220;Saturday Night Live.&#8221;
Warren appeared in a digital short called &#8220;Flipping the Switch&#8221; where she traded placed with Kate McKinnon, who played the Massachusetts Senator in SNL&#8217;s skits roasting the 2020 Democratic primary candidates, in the show&#8217;s &#8220;cold open&#8221; segment.
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𝗙𝗹𝗶𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗵. <a href="https://t.co/t8qHcGRUhY">pic.twitter.com/t8qHcGRUhY</a>
&mdash; Saturday Night Live &#8211; SNL (@nbcsnl) <a href="https://twitter.com/nbcsnl/status/1236523965759262720?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 8, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The skit drew thousands of admirers, among them Ocasio-Cortez, who called the appearance, &#8220;legendary.&#8221;
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ok this is legendary
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That didn&#8217;t sit well with the Bernie Bros, who torched Ocasio-Cortez for &#8220;selling out&#8221; to Warren who hasn&#8217;t endorsed either Sanders or former Vice President Joe Biden, the two remaining candidates with a shot of snagging the Democratic nomination &#8212; a move many Bernie Sanders supporters believe is akin to progressive treason.
It got pretty brutal.
&#8220;No, please, don&#8217;t,&#8221; they began.
&#8220;Good god, Alexandria. Why?&#8221; they continued, suddenly referring to Ocasio-Cortez only by her first name, likely as a method of infantilizing the Congresswoman, in stark contrast to their stated dedication to equality.
&#8220;Delete this. Jesus Christ,&#8221; said the next commenter.
&#8220;[W]hat would&#8217;ve been legendary is had she done the bare minimum solidarity in this moment instead,&#8221; added another.
&#8220;Our planet is dying Alexandria. the extremely powerful white woman with $18 million dollars is actively choosing not to help. It’s not really that tight,&#8221; they went on. &#8220;Love to praise the backstabbing fake progressive who has smeared and attacked my friend and mentor for months to damage his campaign.&#8221;
Others derided Ocasio-Cortez for being &#8220;cringe,&#8221; and gave her the &#8220;side eye.&#8221; Others were left &#8220;smh,&#8221; or &#8220;shaking my head.&#8221;
At some point, cooler-headed leftists began to weigh in, trying to head off the Bernie Bro avalanche.
&#8220;The comments here are just so painful to watch,&#8221; one high-profile left-leaning Twitter user noted. &#8220;I dunno, at a very minimum, can you imagine why a sitting congresswoman is going to be complimentary to a sitting senator who is going to be her ally in passing vital legislation?&#8221;
The Bernie Bros, though, have continued their take-no-prisoners approach to &#8220;correcting&#8221; one of Sanders&#8217; biggest supporters and an aggressive surroage for the Vermont socialist &#8212; if not the single largest motivating force for &#8220;Democratic socialists&#8221; in office.
Sanders has one major contest left, Michigan&#8217;s primary on Tuesday, to prove that he can stay in the nomination race. Sanders won the state in an upset victory over Hillary Clinton in 2016, and if he doesn&#8217;t manage to eke out a win on Tuesday over Biden, Democrats orchestrating the 2020 presidential nomination process will be able to comfortably say that Sanders&#8217; movement, while significant, isn&#8217;t enough to derail President Donald Trump&#8217;s re-election bid.
Ocasio-Cortez will join Sanders at a rally at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor on Sunday afternoon, in a last ditch effort to help Sanders turn out the youth vote &#8212; a demographic he seems to draw in droves to his rallies but whose support hasn&#8217;t translated to the ballot box.

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After throwing all her weight behind the socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) confirmed this week that she will support former Vice President Joe Biden if he were the Democratic Party&#8217;s nominee.
Speaking with late-night comedian Seth Meyers on his show Thursday, the congresswoman stated that she thinks it&#8217;s &#8220;important&#8221; that Democrats unite in November regardless of who gets the nomination, even if that nomination goes to a 77-year-old white man who was hand-picked by the establishment and who accepts money from America&#8217;s billionaire class.
“I’ve said throughout this entire process that what is so important is that we ultimately unite behind who that Democratic nominee is,” Ocasio-Cortez said on the show, as reported by <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-bernie-biden-trump_n_5e6229fec5b691b525f0f41b">HuffPost</a>.
The congresswoman added that she believes this to be a &#8220;two-way street&#8221; and denounced both sides who said they would not support the other if they were the nominee.
“And I think it’s a two-way street,” she said. “I’ve been concerned by some folks that say if Bernie’s the nominee, they won’t support him, and the other way around. This is more important than all of us. We really need to make sure that we defeat Donald Trump at the polls, assuming, and knowing, how insane it’s going to get between now and then.”
The socialist congresswoman&#8217;s statement regarding the potential nominee is markedly different than what she said in January when she scolded the Democratic Party establishment from catering to conservative interests and supporting moderates over true-believers.
“For so long, when I first got in, people were like, ‘Oh, are you going to basically be a tea party of the left?’ And what people don’t realize is that there is a tea party of the left, but it’s on the right edges, the most conservative parts of the Democratic Party. So the Democratic Party has a role to play in this problem, and it’s like we’re not allowed to talk about it. We’re not allowed to talk about anything wrong the Democratic Party does,” she <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/aoc-first-year-in-washington.html">told NY Mag</a>. “I think I have created more room for dissent, and we’re learning to stretch our wings a little bit on the left.”
“Democrats can be too big of a tent,&#8221; she later added. “In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party, but in America, we are.”
Bernie Sanders also <a href="https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/national-international/bernie-sanders-contrasts-himself-with-biden-at-phoenix-rally/2232899/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-ylk="subsec:paragraph;cpos:8;elm:context_link;itc:0" data-rapid-parsed="slk">pledged </a>on Thursday that he would support Joe Biden if he were  the nominee.
“Joe Biden is a decent guy, and I know if he wins the nomination, I will be there for him,” he said. “And if I win, he will be there for me.”
So, essentially, the two socialists who claim to stand up for working-class Americans and who denounce political corruption are now ready to support a man whose son earned $50,000 a month working for a Ukrainian energy company possibly because of Joe Biden&#8217;s status as Vice President.
President Trump has capitalized on the two-faced nature of the Bernie Sanders campaign by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-bernie-is-a-good-puppy-who-will-do-what-hes-supposed-to-do">characterizing him as a man</a> who talks a big game but ultimately becomes a &#8220;good puppy&#8221; when the party leaders want him to be. That was true with Hillary Clinton in 2016 (&#8220;sick of hearing about your damn emails&#8221;) and is true in 2020.
&#8220;I was surprised, when Bernie got beaten up last time, that he went out and endorsed Hillary and went around and did like a good puppy, like he’s supposed to do,” Trump told Sean Hannity this week. “I was a little surprised at that.”
“And, even this time, he was saying about how wonderful – Joe Biden’s a wonderful guy, wonderful man,” Trump concluded. “And I’m a little bit surprised by – it’s almost like he’s – I don’t know if he’s admitting defeat. He might be. But I watched him yesterday saying – or just a little while ago, saying very good things about sleepy Joe Biden. And I was a little bit surprised.”
Aside from Sanders losing, Occasio-Cortez also had a rough night on Super Tuesday when the candidates she backed all failed to deliver.
&#8220;Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may have been the biggest loser on Super Tuesday as all of the candidates that she backed, including socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), did not live up to her hype of them,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-biggest-loser-ocasio-cortez-blown-out-all-over-the-map-on-super-tuesday">reported</a> The Daily Wire&#8217;s Ryan Saavedra this week.  &#8220;Ocasio-Cortez recently started her own far-left group called “Courage to Change” to take on establishment Democrats, and none of the candidates she backed ended up performing very well.&#8221;

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Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) may have been the biggest loser on Super Tuesday as all of the candidates that she backed, including socialist Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), did not live up to her hype of them.
Ocasio-Cortez recently started her own far-left group called &#8220;Courage to Change&#8221; to take on establishment Democrats, and none of the candidates she backed ended up performing very well.
Among the candidates was 26-year-0ld immigration lawyer Jessica Cisnerous, who Ocasio-Cortez went out of her way to boost in her race in Texas&#8217; 28th Congressional District against Henry Cuellar.
&#8220;I am so incredibly proud of Jessica Cisneros,&#8221; Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. &#8220;At 26 years old, she ran for office for the first time to offer TX28 new leadership that fights for workers, gender rights, &amp; a climate agenda. She stood up to Koch brother money &amp; incumbency, &amp; she came closer than anyone imagined.&#8221;
Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/aoc-aligned-progressive-candidates-fall-flat-in-super-tuesday-contests">reported</a> on two other candidates who were backed by Ocasio-Cortez:
<blockquote>Meanwhile, Christina Tzintzún Ramirez, the progressive-backed candidate for a Texas Senate seat, is struggling to <a href="https://elections.ap.org/dailykos/results/2020-03-03/state/TX/race/S/raceid/48145">make it into a runoff</a> with MJ Hegar, the Democratic establishment&#8217;s favored pick to face longtime Republican Sen. John Cornyn in November. While no candidate won more than 50 percent of the vote in the race, returns show Ramirez locked in a battle with Texas State Sen. Royce West for a place in the runoff with Hegar.
Another AOC-backed candidate, Georgette Gomez, did <a href="https://elections.ap.org/dailykos/results/2020-03-03/state/CA/race/H/raceid/6237">make</a> the initial cut and qualified for the general election for California&#8217;s 53rd district, located in San Diego county. However, she came in second with 19 percent percent of the vote against the establishment candidate Sara Jacobs, who received 28 percent. In California, as one of the top two primary vote-getters, Gomez automatically qualifies for the November general election.</blockquote>
Most notably, Sanders did not perform well on Super Tuesday, despite Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s aggressive campaigning for him this year.
&#8220;It was a bloodbath for Sanders and a bonanza for Biden,&#8221; The Week <a href="https://theweek.com/articles/899855/how-bernie-blew">reported</a>. &#8220;States where Sanders had the inside track just days ago, particularly Maine, Minnesota, Texas, and Massachusetts, went for Biden, who also won Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Alabama. His margin in Virginia alone provided him with enough ballast to survive Sanders&#8217; numbers out West. Sanders got obliterated so badly in Alabama that he likely will get close to zero delegates, just a worst case scenario performance.&#8221;
Even far-left Vox was forced to concede how disastrous Sanders&#8217; performance was, <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/4/21164383/texas-primary-sanders-biden-old-voters-turnout">writing</a>, &#8220;It’s really hard to overstate how bad this is for Sanders.&#8221;
Political pollster Dave Wasserman further highlighted Sanders&#8217; disastrous night, writing, &#8220;Sanders&#8217;s pledge to bring new voters into his movement seems fairly empty in the results we&#8217;re seeing so far. His coalition has shrunk since 2016, not grown.&#8221;
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Sanders&#39;s pledge to bring new voters into his movement seems fairly empty in the results we&#39;re seeing so far. His coalition has shrunk since 2016, not grown.
&mdash; Dave Wasserman (@Redistrict) <a href="https://twitter.com/Redistrict/status/1235002030378422272?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 4, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Ocasio-Cortez&#8217;s latest failure comes after she backed far-left British Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn in the British elections, who went on to get blown out in the election.
The congresswoman even struggles to carry weight in her own district as Tiffany Cabán, the district attorney backed by Ocasio-Cortez last year, was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/06/nyregion/tiffany-caban-queens-da-concedes.html">forced</a> to concede a loss to the Democratic establishment.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-devastated-new-poll-inside-her-ryan-saavedra">Numerous</a> <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/ocasio-cortez-explodes-after-learning-her-ryan-saavedra">polls</a> have shown that Ocasio-Cortez is not well liked across the country or even in her own district as she is seen by many as being too extreme.

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On Friday, YouTube channel We The Internet TV released a mini-documentary (approximately 17 minutes long) titled, “5 Reasons Why We Need Sweden’s Democratic Socialism.”
Don’t worry – the title is somewhat ironic, and the documentary is not pro-socialism. Instead, it features host Lou Perez traveling to Sweden and speaking with a variety of individuals about the Swedish system of government, both the way it operates currently and how there was a period of time in which the country dabbled in socialist ideology.
During the introduction, Perez shows clips of Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) comparing their policies to those of the Nordic countries.
“My policies most closely resemble what we see in the U.K., in Norway, in Finland, in Sweden,” Ocasio-Cortez states in a clip from CBS.
A clip then shows Sanders speaking during a debate: “I think we should look to countries like Denmark, like Sweden, and Norway, and learn from what they have accomplished for their working people.”
Perez first speaks with Johan Norberg, a Swedish author and historian of ideas, who replies firmly when asked if Sweden is socialist or even democratically socialist.
“No,” he says.
“I’d say it’s a free market, capitalist economy based on open trade, and with a fair amount of government redistribution of the proceeds,” Norberg states.
Norberg then explains the history behind the “Nordic model” mythos used by Democratic politicians in the United States, noting that there was a “20-year period when we experimented with the socialism to see whether it worked or not, and it didn’t. It ended in spectacular failure.”
“But for some reason, this is the 20-year period that all of you remember,” Norberg adds, going on to explain what really happened when the nation dabbled in socialistic policies.
Perez then speaks with Andreas Bergh, an economist and associate professor at the department of economics at Lund University, who explains to Perez that Sweden’s welfare state isn’t a “system that taxes the rich and gives to the poor,” rather, it’s a system that redistributes “most of your [own] taxes &#8230; over your lifecycle,” and the money is “not handed to the lazy or the poor.”
Bergh then speaks about the incredibly high marginal income taxes that were in place around 1980, and the “tax planning” problems that came with such a system.
Next, Perez talk about Sweden’s contribution to high-value startups, as well as the way in which the nation’s health care system works.
“Public health care had problems. It didn’t function as good as it should have,” states Anders Manell, press chief for the Association of Private Care Providers. “We had long queues, we had waiting time to get access to health care, patients didn’t get their operations on time, and you couldn’t reach your doctor.”
After pressure from Swedes, politicians “opened up the entire sector,” says Manell, meaning one can now choose private or public care.
The documentary goes on to address allegedly “free” college in Sweden, as well as climate change and how the country has embraced nuclear energy.
The end of the documentary returns to Norberg. When Perez asks the historian of ideas what his message would be to “American politicians who continue to call Sweden the beacon of Democratic socialism,” Norberg lays it all out in clear terms – deregulation, free trade, reformation of social security, implementation of school choice, etc.
This min-documentary from We The Internet TV is an excellent briefing for anyone interested in the claims that self-proclaimed “Democratic socialists” in America make about supposedly “socialist” Nordic nations.
Check it out below:
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WATCH: We The Internet TV Releases Mini-Documentary About The Myth Of Modern Swedish ‘Socialism’

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When President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that Vice President Mike Pence would be assisting in overseeing the response to the Coronavirus, far-left Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) rifled off tweets ridiculing Pence for &#8220;literally&#8221; not believing &#8220;in science.&#8221;
&#8220;Mike Pence literally does not believe in science,&#8221; hurled Ocasio-Cortez via Twitter. &#8220;It is utterly irresponsible to put him in charge of US coronavirus response as the world sits on the cusp of a pandemic.&#8221;
&#8220;This decision could cost people their lives,&#8221; fear-mongered AOC. &#8220;Pence’s past decisions already have.&#8221;
The congresswomen blamed an HIV outbreak in Indiana on the VP and blasted: &#8220;He is not a medical doctor. He is not a health expert. He is not qualified nor positioned in any way to protect our public health.&#8221;
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As governor, Pence’s science denial contributed to one of the worst HIV outbreaks in Indiana’s history.
He is not a medical doctor. He is not a health expert. He is not qualified nor positioned in any way to protect our public health. <a href="https://t.co/1jVY44p2HF">https://t.co/1jVY44p2HF</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1232841137930559490?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz took issue with AOC&#8217;s &#8220;anti-science&#8221; smear, particularly over the elected Democrat&#8217;s views on things like sex, gender, and life. For example, AOC supports policies which suggest biological men who identify as women are female and living unborn humans are not living unborn humans.
&#8220;As you are speaking as the oracle of science, tell us, what exactly is a Y chromosome?&#8221; blasted the senator.
With regard to abortion, Cruz added: &#8220;And at what age of gestation does science tell us that an unborn child feels physical pain?&#8221;
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2/x And at what age of gestation does science tell us that an unborn child feels physical pain?
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1233131075184078851?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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The Republican then took a shot at AOC for continuously blasting the Trump administration with regard to her climate change hysterics: &#8220;And, of the 195 countries on planet Earth, which country produced the greatest total reduction in CO2 emissions in 2019?&#8221;
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3/x And, of the 195 countries on planet Earth, which country produced the greatest total reduction in CO2 emissions in 2019?
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1233131572553011200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 27, 2020</a></blockquote>
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AOC responded to Cruz on Friday morning, though she side-stepped the issues of abortion and transgenderism highlighted by the senator, instead boasting of her credentials.
&#8220;Sen. Cruz, while I understand you judge people’s intelligence by the lowest income they’ve had, I hold awards from MIT Lincoln Lab &amp;others for accomplishments in microbiology,&#8221; she responded. &#8220;Secondly, I’m surprised you’re asking about chromosomes given that you don’t even believe in evolution.&#8221;
Ocasio-Cortez signed off:
<blockquote>Sincerely, an Intel global finalist, a fmr multi-year intern for Sen. Kennedy, a cum laude dual major in Economics &amp; International Relations, a fmr Educational Director for national organization, Who to you is “just a bartender,” And also your colleague.</blockquote>
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Sincerely, an Intel global finalist, a fmr multi-year intern for Sen. Kennedy, a cum laude dual major in Economics &amp; International Relations, a fmr Educational Director for national organization, Who to you is “just a bartender,” And also your colleague.<a href="https://t.co/9ktAgXFXDE">https://t.co/9ktAgXFXDE</a>
&mdash; Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) <a href="https://twitter.com/AOC/status/1233414601041207296?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;We see evolution every day: the Dem party is rapidly evolving into an angry, anti-science socialist ideology,&#8221; Cruz snarked in response. &#8220;You insulted Pence &amp; I asked you 3 real Qs re science. You ignored all 3 &amp; responded w/ your resume &amp; ad hominem attacks. Instead of insults, address the substance.&#8221;
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We see evolution every day: the Dem party is rapidly evolving into an angry, anti-science socialist ideology. You insulted Pence &amp; I asked you 3 real Qs re science. You ignored all 3 &amp; responded w/ your resume &amp; ad hominem attacks. Instead of insults, address the substance. <a href="https://t.co/QhyqRJOrii">https://t.co/QhyqRJOrii</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1233477001169821700?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Attempting to get a real answer from the representative, Cruz again listed his questions:
<blockquote>To reprise, science Q1 was “tell us, what exactly is a Y chromosome?”
Science Q2 was “at what age of gestation does science tell us that an unborn child feels physical pain?”
And Science Q3 was “of the 195 countries on planet Earth, which country produced the greatest total reduction in CO2 emissions in 2019?”</blockquote>
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3/x Science Q2 was “at what age of gestation does science tell us that an unborn child feels physical pain?”
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1233477568453586947?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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4/x And Science Q3 was “of the 195 countries on planet Earth, which country produced the greatest total reduction in CO2 emissions in 2019?”
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1233477875107495936?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Closing the thread, Cruz said he awaited AOC&#8217;s &#8220;engagement on the actual substance, as a colleague as you noted, hopefully without the insults.&#8221;
&#8220;Btw, congrats on the science fair,&#8221; the senator ended the exchange, quote-tweeting AOC&#8217;s list of her own accomplishments.
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Btw, congrats on the science fair. <a href="https://t.co/F1hDE4fKkG">https://t.co/F1hDE4fKkG</a>
&mdash; Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) <a href="https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1233481220572504069?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 28, 2020</a></blockquote>
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Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/aoc-pounds-table-cites-her-faith-to-rail-against-conservative-christians-bigotry-and-discrimination">AOC Pounds Table, Cites Her ‘Faith’ To Rail Against Conservative Christians’ ‘Bigotry And Discrimination’</a>
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