Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez fires back at Trump for socialism jab during State of the Union
by Daniel Chaitin
| February 06, 2019 12:14 AM
Freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., argued President Trump's rebuke of a new generation of Democrats and socialists during his second State of the Union address Tuesday evening was a no more than a desperate effort to lash out because he feels he is "losing on the issues."
During his 82-minute speech, Trump said "we are alarmed by new calls to adopt socialism in our country" and pledged that America will "never be a socialist country."
Asked to react during an interview on MSNBC, Ocasio-Cortez said it is liberal Democrats who have come up with ideas that are popular among Americans, pointing to talk of a 70 percent marginal tax rate and expanded government-financed healthcare.
She said Trump resorted to an "ad hominem attack" to distract from his struggles on certain issues, including securing funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall. "I think he sees himself losing on the issues, he sees himself losing on the wall in the southern border, and he needs to grasp at an attack and this is his way of doing it," she said.
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