Ocasio-Cortez Hits Manchin and Menendez for Abandoning Working Class

‘There are people that really want to feel like there’s an unapologetic working-class champion for them’

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OCASIO-CORTEZ: "Well I think we look at -- just look at ‎what happened Joe Manchin this year. Joe Manchin faced a little to know talked about primary from a woman on the left Paula Jean Swearengin. I know Paula Jean Swearengin very well. She's a coal miner's daughter, she ran on no money, like not only did she run on no corporate money but she -- she had nothing. In two years for a United States Senate race she raised 179,000 total and you know like when you're figuring stuff out in campaigns like she really had probably less than 100k to run -- to actually run that race. She was out there knocking doors herself no money. Joe Manchin dropped $2 million against her, and she still got 30 percent of the vote. So that to me tells me that in West Virginia -- which like when almost every county in West Virginia went for Bernie in 2016, who's further to the left you know, that to me tells me that we need to start reframing our issues instead of left and right to top and down. And it's not about like, oh, you know, I have to whether my message to Republicans; there are people that really want to feel like there's an unapologetic working-class champion for them." 

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