New York Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez delivered a 60-second speech at the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday.
In her speech, she said:
“Good evening, welcome, and thank everyone here today for striving for a better, more just future for our country and our world, in loyalty and gratitude to a mass movement of people working for the establishment of 21st century social, economic and human rights, including guaranteed health care, higher education, living wages and labor rights for all people in the United States; a movement that strives to recognize and repair the wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny and homophobia, and propose and build reimagined systems of immigration and foreign policy that repel the violence and xenophobia of our past; a movement that realizes the unsustainable brutality of an economy that rewards explosive inequality of wealth for couples at the expense of long-term stability for many and that organizes a historic grassroots campaign to embrace our democracy; 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, in spirit of the people and out of love for all people, I hereby second the nomination of Senator Bernard Sanders for President of the United States of America. ‘
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In 2017, 30-year-old Ocasio-Cortez became the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. She was a supporter of the former Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and criticized public criticism of the Democratic presidential nominee, former vice president Joe Biden.
In April, Ocasio-Cortez expressed his support for Biden, but urged his campaign to take serious steps to address concerns raised by the party’s left wing.
‘Knocking [Republican President] “Donald Trump is a matter of life or death for our communities,” she said The New York Times. “I think there’s a difference between making an argument for harm reduction, and making the argument for it. There will actually be made progress for us.”
“The whole process of coming together should be uncomfortable for everyone involved – that’s how you know it works,” she continued. “And if Biden only does things he’s comfortable with, then it’s not enough.”
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By the end of April, the staff of Biden and Ocasio-Cortez had reached out to each other, with their distinction working to attract younger voters, as they represent the goals of the Democratic Party’s progressive movement.
She later joined Biden’s Climate Policy Task Force, a luminaire member known for its February 2019 co-sponsorship of the Green New Deal (GND), a proposed package of laws aimed at virtually eliminating U.S. greenhouse gas pollution. within a decade and new work facility.
Biden’s campaign website now states that he believes the GND “is a crucial framework for meeting the climate challenges we face.”
