Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accused NBC News of spreading the “incredible amount of damage and misinformation” on Tuesday after the network delivered a routine procedural speech by her as a snub of the Democratic presidential candidate, Joe Biden.
Speaking on the second night of the Democratic National Convention (DNC), Ocasio-Cortez was nominated as the second nominee of Senator Bernie Sanders as president. Sanders ended his presidential bid and ended Biden last spring, but he was usually in for a formal nomination as part of the process of transferring his delegates to Biden.
Ocasio-Cortez originally had Sanders for president in the primary season before switching her support to Biden.
“At a time when millions of people in the United States are seeking profound systemic solutions to our crisis of mass eviction, unemployment, and lack of health care,” Ocasio-Cortez said in a brief speech on Tuesday, “in the spirit of the peopleAnd out of love for all people, I hereby second the nomination of Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont for President of the United States of America. ‘
Soon, NBC News sent a tweet that seems to give intrigue to the fact that Ocasio-Cortez Biden had not signed for president. Such incentives are not typically granted at convention sessions and there was no reason or expectation for Ocasio-Cortez to do so.
But an NBC News account tweeted: ‘In one of the DNC’s most recent speeches, Rep. Ocasio-Cortez Joe Biden did not endorse:’ I hereby second the nomination of Vermont’s scenario president Bernard Sanders for America. ”
Hours later, the tweet was deleted and an editor’s note was added with the reading, “This tweet should have included more detail about the nomination process.”
But Ocasio-Cortez and others were dissatisfied, accusing the news outlet of false controversy at a time when the Democratic Party is facing a generational difference between leaders such as Ocasio-Cortez, a 30-year-old progressive, and Biden, a 77-year-old. t won his first Senate contest 17 years before she was born.
Ocasio-Cortez tweets three times on NBC, starting after midnight:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(@AOC)You waited several hours to correct your just and blatantly misleading tweet.
It caused an enormous amount of hate and vitriol, and now the mischief you have created is circulating on other networks.
All to generate hate clicks from a pre-recorded, routine procedural move. https://t.co/crDlEymgMD
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(@AOC)This is completely unacceptable, disappointing and horrible.
The DNC previously shared the procedural purpose of my comments to media WELL. @NBC knew what was going to happen & that it was routine.
How does a headline that happens evil & misleading w / with that foreknowledge?
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
(@AOC)Sa @NBCNews how will you repair the incredible amount of damage and misinformation for which you are now responsible?
Because a 1:15 hour tweet slips under the radar after blowing up a completely false and divisive story about networks, it is not. https://t.co/zf6Wqiotvv
As of this writing, NBC News had not released any further comment.
Sanders was also nominated for president at the 2016 Democratic National Convention, before his delegates were passed on to Hillary Clinton. Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard nominated Sanders, and the nomination was seconded by a state campaign director and a spokeswoman for an election dog group.
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