Rep. Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is a media icon from Queens , N.Y…..
She knocked off a House leader to get her seat in Congress…
She is now in the same situation the ex-House Congressman Crowley was with Ocasio-Cortez-Cortez…
Under attack for not taking care of her people back home in the district …..
Former CNBC anchor Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, who is running a primary challenge to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, slammed the New York Democrat’s response to the coronavirus on Monday, saying, “AOC is always MIA.”
Caruso-Cabrera has relentlessly targeted Ocasio-Cortez since she launched her campaign in February. Last month, she called the freshman lawmaker “out of touch” for voting against a $484 billion coronavirus stimulus package.
“My opponent AOC made very clear all of her priorities, and yet, what I don’t understand is why AOC is always MIA,” Caruso-Cabrera said during an online debate hosted by BronxNet.
Caruso-Cabrera said that Ocasio-Cortez remained in her Washington, D.C., apartment building with a Whole Foods in the lobby “at the height of the crisis,” even when the House was not in session.
“Me, day one, I was out delivering food, I was out delivering masks — I wasn’t even elected,” Caruso-Cabrera.
Ocasio-Cortez responded that her reason for staying in her apartment was that she “wasn’t feeling very well,” and that she has helped raise nearly $500,000 for pantries in the community, in addition to helping to deliver meals to residents herself.
“You’re always working on your celebrity status, You’re divisive, and you work against the party,” Caruso-Cabrera said….
Ocasio-Cortez is the face and future of the Democratic party. She speaks truth to power and sometimes that’s uncomfortable. She will best any challenger by a comfortable margin.
No….
She is NOT the face of the party….
Right now?
Joe Biden IS….
AOC endorsed Biden as she turned her back on Sanders and walked away from him…
AOC also voted FOR Pelosi for House Speaker…
Rowing to the left is fine…
But the Democratic Party is going to the November election with a center based guy who believes in bipartisanism …
She ‘s NOT quite the standard yet….
And she’s gotta win her primary come next month ….
Dems are a big party, We can like Biden and Ocasio-Cortez. She is co-chairing his campaign’s task force on climate change.
No doubt….
“Big Tent”….
Sanders people just have to come in from the cold….
Completely agree. Republicans love to play up any differences in our Big Tent, but at least we aren’t slaves to Trump. What a joke of a party.
I’m not sure Fox News and Republicans in general would pay as much attention to AOC if her name was…
Alexandra Olivia Cramer
Yes, or Alexander Oscar Cramer. Being a young, multi-racial, attractive woman has led to their obsession with her no doubt.
GOPer’s seem to have no serious attention in women lawmakers or else….
Things getting hot for the AOC US Queens/Bronx House seat
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez got into a heated virtual debate with her chief Democratic primary opponent, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, this week — and the exchanges got very personal.
Caruso-Cabrera accused AOC of staying in her “luxury” DC apartment complex with a “Whole Foods in the lobby” during the peak of the coronavirus pandemic that ravaged constituents in her Bronx-Queens district while Congress was out of session….
More @ NYPost…
The NY Post?
Yea…
Seems that the NY Times isn’t looking at this House race yet…
The NY tabloids are…
And so is Fox…
AOC-led push to kill Amazon’s NYC move under renewed scrutiny as city faces catastrophic job losses
As New York City suffers an economic crisis on top of the coronavirus pandemic, some are looking back with regrets at the left-wing campaign that forced Amazon to scupper a plan to bring tens of thousands of jobs to the area – arguing this project could have helped the Big Apple weather the storm.
“At this time when coronavirus is ravaging incomes across New York, wouldn’t it be nice if the city and state at least knew that one of the world’s largest companies, one of the rare concerns positioned to thrive through the crisis, had made a long-term commitment to locate between 25,000 and 40,000 high-paying jobs here?” an editorial in the New York Daily News said….
Fox…
I have said here that while the lefties and the NY media gave her appaulds for pushing back against the Amazon Queens/NYC Hq move?
Local’s where NOT happy…
The loss of jobs and money was substantial…
Gov Cuomo actually begged Bezos to come back…
There have been no polling on this race…
The primary in June 23…
In person and mail in ballot voting…
But the media would have a party if AOC got knocked off after she knocked off House bigwig Crowley inn the district…
Remember…
‘All politics IS Local’
Being Progressive icon for the national media doesn’t get you votes in ur district…
Providing services and a presence there does…
All politics is local. Her opponent moved to the district recently and is not what one would call even a mainstream Democrat.
Agreed….
No polling for the primary….
But if AOC loses???????