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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “This time has been scary because people don't know if…”

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

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Published August 15, 2019 | Video Starts at 25:21

And I think what folks also need to realize is that this time is not just scary because Donald Trump is president. This time is scary. This time has been scary because people don't know if they're going to be able to pay their rent at the end of the month. People don't know if, when you wake up, if you walk out of your house, if, God forbid, you get hit by a car or slip off of a curb, … (25:21–25:26)

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Asserts that economic insecurity is causing fear among people.

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“In my primary election, I won because I expanded the electorate 68% over the last off year midterm primary.”
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“Everyone finds out whether we're going to vote on a bill 48 hours before that vote happens.”
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“Climate change alone is going to drive hundreds of thousands of people to be changing and migrating across the world.”
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“Where migrants go, prosperity follows.”
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“The president is peddling a zero sum vision of the world.”
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“Racism is economic.”
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“Donald Trump is using racism as a cudgel.”
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“He's trying to center issues of race, of immigration, et cetera, to sink the economic agenda.”
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“Trump relied on a coalition, and a core part of that coalition were racists.”
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“I think that people think that voters cast their votes based on policy positions more than they actually do.”
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“Republicans messaging lines... Their messaging is completely unified, and it's aggressive in winning over the electorate.”
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“The amount of resentment that happened in 2016 that I think led to the Democratic loss was the fact that we were telling, implicitly, I feel…”
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“It's a huge challenge, especially with Manchin as chairman of Energy and Commerce in the Senate.”
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“Our entire system is incentivized to destroying our planet and the only home that we live on.”
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“So long as fossil fuels are profitable and so long as low wages are profitable, people are going to be economically marginalized and feel…”
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“That's why we have to make a renewable energy job just as good of a quality as a coal job, because coal jobs are unionized.”
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“The Green New Deal, I think, is in many parts, is also an economic stimulus package for Main Street.”
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“I think scientifically we have no choice but to put climate front and center.”
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“The Green New Deal is enormously popular.”
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“We have all of the money to do all of these things [universal healthcare and education].”
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“I come from a district that is like D +24 or something like that.”
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“Our system and our politics, our structure is designed to help the powerful.”
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“The America that we had even under Obama is gone.”
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“A more advanced society is one where everyone can go to the doctor.”
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“A more advanced society is one where every person has the opportunity to educate themselves as far as they see fit.”
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