Ocasio-Cortez responds to Dem senator who said policies 'too far to the left' don't win in Midwest

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Ocasio-Cortez responds to Dem senator who said policies 'too far to the left' don't win in Midwest

By Morgan Gstalter - 07/01/18 08:33 PM EDT

New York congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) responded to Sen. Tammy Duckworth’s (D-Ill.) claim that policies "too far to the left" can’t win in Midwestern states.

“With respect to the Senator, strong, clear advocacy for working class Americans isn’t just for the Bronx,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a tweet on Sunday.

Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist and former organizer for Sen. Bernie Sander’s (I-Vt.) 2016 presidential campaign, pointed out that policies to the left of Hillary Clinton won in several Midwestern states.

Sanders won the Democratic primary in Michigan, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Wisconsin and Indiana in 2016.

“We then lost several of those states in the general,” Ocasio-Cortez tweeted. “What’s the plan to prevent a repeat?”

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http://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/395104-ocasio-cortez-responds-to-duckworth-saying-policies-too-far-to-the-left

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Hubris will not be your friend at the ballot box Mz. Cortez. And while I probably don't agree with Mz. Duckworth on much else, she gets a thumbs up for some rare common sense in her party.

It looks like a whole new front in the war has opened up.

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   The democrat party has been bankrupt on ideas since the Vietnam War, if not before.
   I give Trump some credit for this surprising implosion of theirs. 
   No GOPer ever got down in the mud to fight them before, if it wasn't so entertaining, I'd be crying.