Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., stated on Monday that the Democratic Party is a “center or center-conservative” party and how there currently isn’t a “left” party in the United States.
Speaking at an event commemorating Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Ocasio-Cortez knocked her own party for not being progressive enough.
“We don’t have a left party in the United States. The Democratic Party is not a left party,” the freshman congresswoman began, which sparked applause from the audience. “The Democratic Party is a center or a center-conservative party.”
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She continued, “We can’t even get a floor vote on Medicare-for-all — not even a floor voted that gets voted down. We can’t even get a vote on it. So this is not a left party. There are left members inside the Democratic Party that are working to try to make that shift happen.” – READ MORE