… and the 4,000 who are here, I think we got 10% of the community at this rally right now. Thank you. Now, I want to say a word about Alexandria. When Alexandria was a kid, you correct me if I'm wrong, she cleaned houses with her mom in order to make enough money for the family to survive. And then after she graduated college, she was a barista, working paycheck to paycheck. But what she did, as she looked around her and in her community in Bronx, New York, is she saw that change had to come. (38:45–38:59)
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Asserts that Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez cleaned houses with her mother to support their family.
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