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Nancy Pelosi Compares Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez To Glass Of Water
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April 17, 2019
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11:07Now PlayingNancy Pelosi doesn’t think much of Alexandria OcasioCortez and she’s not afraid to say it. Ana Kasparian, Brooke Thomas, and Alonzo Bodden, hosts of The Young Turks, break it down. MORE TYT
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“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has played down Democratic victories in districts such as her own and that of Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, fending off calls from some of the party’s newer members and politicians to shift leftward.
Ocasio-Cortez, 29, a self-described democratic socialist, defeated 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley in a Democratic primary before winning New York's 14th District last November. She is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress and has become the face of a movement that's pushing for Democrats to adopt more "progressive" policies, such as free health care, free tuition and a higher minimum wage.
But the movement faces resistance from the party’s center and right factions, which believe a significant move left would not win votes and would be a major electoral mistake that would keep the Republican Party in the presidency and hand it control of both chambers of Congress.
“When we won this election, it wasn't in districts like mine or Alexandria's. And she's a wonderful member of Congress, I think all of our colleagues will attest,” Pelosi, a California Democrat, told an audience Monday night at a London School of Economics event during a U.K. visit.
“But those are districts that are solidly Democratic. This glass of water would win with a D next to its name in those districts,” she said, picking up the water at her table.”
Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Brooke Thomas, Alonzo Bodden
Cast: Ana Kasparian, Brooke Thomas, Alonzo Bodden
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