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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “If we do not take back the House and the Senate, we're going…”

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

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AOC speech blasts Trump election claims, outlines her strategy for Democrats to win midterms

Published | Video Starts at 03:34

And we know that it has nothing to do with true or false. They will do everything they can to try to overturn our democracy in November. And If we do not take back the House and the Senate, we're going to make it a whole lot easier for him and his cronies to do just that [overturn our democracy]. So Michigan, we have no time to waste. The question before us is how do we win a durable majority? How do we get out of this pattern that we seem to have been stuck in for years? (03:34–03:43)

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Asserts that failing to win back the House and Senate would facilitate efforts to overturn democracy.

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