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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “Democrats, oftentimes, when we lose elections, we think that…”

Featuring: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic | U.S. House, New York, District 14

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AOC explains the AOC-Trump voter | The ReidOut Full Interview

Published | Video Starts at 01:26

Okay, alc. What they say. I mean, there's a lot of different things that we saw. I think there's a lot of people. First of all, it's important to note that Democrats, oftentimes, when we lose elections, we think that we lost people to Trump. And that is true in circumstances, but they don't look enough at the fact that we also lost people to the couch. We have two people that we're running against. (01:26–01:32)

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Asserts that Democrats often attribute election losses to losing voters to Trump.

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