Amid socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’ suspension of his presidential campaign, essentially guaranteeing former Vice President Joe Biden the Democrat nomination for president, Bernie-backer Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is not eating her words.
Previously in a New York Magazine interview, AOC bashed the former vice president, saying “oh, God,” at the prospect of him being selected as his party’s nominee for president.
In a January interview, AOC said, “In any other country, Joe Biden and I would not be in the same party, but in America, we are.”
In the same breath, the freshman congresswoman lambasted the moderate wings of her party, of which she most likely classifies Biden in. She said, “And what people don’t realize is that there is a tea party of the left, but it’s on the right edges, the most conservative parts of the Democratic Party. So the Democratic Party has a role to play in this problem.”
On Monday, it was reported that AOC has not spoken to Biden since his apparent nomination, to which she explained party unity with Biden as “kind of vague, kumbaya, kind of term. Unity and unifying isn’t a feeling, it’s a process.”