Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “At that time we had the largest class since Watergate.”

“You had to take certain positions. You had to be a certain kind of candidate in order to be considered viable. And so the kind of crumb that I started with was because At that time we had the largest class since Watergate. So I started to look at all of our frontline candidates and I say, you know, are there any here that kind of break the mold in any way?” (32:19–32:22)

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