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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “The frustrations at [the rigged system] are why working…”

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

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Jon Stewart & AOC Take On Trump’s Comeback and Rebuilding the Democratic Party The Weekly Show.

Published | Video Starts at 38:33

But, but isn't that what is driving them? Is that sense that. And they are, I think, not wrong. The system is rigged? Oh, yeah. I mean, it's completely rigged. And The frustrations at [the rigged system] are why working people want to elect people who seek to not, you know, go along, to get along. But the question is they're viewing it like, oh, it's the undocumented migrants that are rigging the system and not the six billionaire oligarchs that are sitting in the front row at the inauguration. (38:33–38:44)

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Asserts that frustrations with a rigged system motivate working people to elect reform-minded individuals.

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