Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered some election autopsy evaluation on Thursday after a lot of America swung for Donald Trump final week.
“There may be common frustration on this nation—a lot of it I truly assume [is] justified—that’s raging at a political institution that facilities company pursuits, billionaires, and places their wants forward of the wants of working People,” she defined on MSNBC Thursday.
Ocasio-Cortez not too long ago used her social media to ask her followers who backed each her and Trump why they did so. And in her autopsy, she referred to the developments she’d seen in these responses, although she famous that every one the election knowledge just isn’t but obtainable.
“There’s something to be mentioned about—it would not matter that [Trump’s] mendacity. He is saying that ‘I’m fighting for you,’” she added after being requested in regards to the seeming incongruence of being offended at billionaires and nonetheless voting for Trump, a billionaire.
Ocasio-Cortez felt that whereas the many thousands and thousands that Trump spent on anti-transgender promoting was “effective in certain areas,” that shouldn’t be the lesson Democrats take away.
“What I think people are paying too much attention to is the first half of that ad, which says … ‘Kamala Harris is for they/them,’” she mentioned. “They’re not focusing on the second half of that ad, where he said, ‘Donald Trump is for you.’”
“Political races are not about one candidate versus another candidate,” she added. “Too usually it will get pigeonholed like that. It’s a race to persuade an individual about who cares about you extra.”
Ocasio-Cortez additionally cautioned in opposition to directing one’s anger at individuals who weren’t following each controversial factor that Trump did on the marketing campaign path.
“People need to understand that there are people, millions of people in this country, and I was one of them, where you are working two, three shifts a day to try to make ends meet,” she mentioned. “You’re not reading the newspaper every morning with a cup of coffee.”
