“We need to acknowledge that this isn’t just about middle of the road, increasingly narrow band of independent voters,” she told NY1 on Thursday, according to the New York Post.
“But, this is really about the collapse of support among young people, among Democratic base, feeling like they worked overtime to get this president elected and they aren’t necessarily being seen.”
Ocasio-Cortez’s criticisms of Biden and moderate Democrats stretch back years, as she told New York Magazine in January 2020 just before the Democratic presidential primaries, “In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party.”
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