Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Endorse Biden But It Will Be Uncomfortable 

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Will Endorse Biden But It Will Be Uncomfortable 

Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York indicated in an interview on Monday that she will support Joe Biden’s presidential bid in November, but she also added that the process of party unification after this primary should be “uncomfortable for everyone involved.”

“And if Biden is only doing things he’s comfortable with, then it’s not enough,” the freshman congresswoman told The New York Times.

Ocasio-Cortez was one of the first significant endorsements for Senator Bernie Sanders’ bid in October, but then he dropped out of the race last week, handing Biden the Democratic nomination.

She said that Biden’s campaign hasn’t yet reached out to her and that his outreach to the more progressive wing of the party needs improvement. It’s up to Biden how enthusiastic her support will be, Ocasio-Cortez told the newspaper.

In the interview with times, she made clear that a Biden rally with her could be a possibility, but she also said that she has never spoken to Biden. “I’m not trying to needle as a way of making a point or to score points. I want to win. And I want to make sure that we win broadly.”

According to Ocasio-Cortez, the 2020 primary was “much less painful and nasty and fraught as it was in 2016,” indicating the potential for a smoother unification process between the progressive and moderate wings of the party.

Ocasio-Cortez also said the process of party unification should be “uncomfortable for everyone involved — that’s how you know it’s working.”

“And if Biden is only doing things he’s comfortable with, then it’s not enough,” she said.

Instead of “throwing the progressive wing of the party a couple of bones,” Ocasio-Cortez says the conversation should be about “how we can win.”

I think people understand that there are limits to what Biden will do, and that’s understandable — he didn’t run as a progressive candidate,” she told the paper. “But, at the bare minimum, we should aspire to be better than what we have been before. And I just don’t know if this message of ‘We’re going to go back to the way things were’ is going to work for the people for who the way things were was really bad.”

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