AOC says she is ‘having conversations with Biden’s team’ over policy
By Emily Jacobs
April 16, 2020
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s staff has been in talks with Biden’s team over the past few days, she admitted in a new interview.
Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) revealed in an interview with Politico Wednesday that her aides were “having conversations with Biden’s team,†in order to “figure out what some of these policy conversations will [be] looking like†as the general election takes shape.
The comments come two days after she took part in an interview with The New York Times, in which she said she had not yet heard from the Biden campaign since Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) dropped out of the race.
The New York Democrat has long been a critic of the moderate former vice president, once saying that the two would be in different political parties if they were in another country, she softened her tone slightly as Biden began to run away with the nomination.
The political lightning rod said earlier this week that the progressive and moderate wings of the Democratic Party working to unify around Biden should be “uncomfortable.â€
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