Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: “We need to codify voting rights and legal representation.”

“I mean, on the other end of things, fight for working people. We need. We need to guarantee health care in America. We need to raise a living wage in America. We need to codify voting rights and legal representation. and we need to be investing in our educational systems, basic economic rights that should be available, that define what it means to have human dignity.” (10:43–10:50)

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