What did Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez say about Sanders and Biden at DNC?
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez spoke for a minute and a half at Tuesday's online Democratic convention and nominated Senator Bernie Sanders for the presidency.
The first-ever virtual Democratic National Convention resumed on Tuesday, with the party showcasing its elder statesmen and up-and-coming political stars to press the case for electing Joe Biden as president in November.
For the 2020 convention, the party claimed that it wanted to accommodate as many young Democratic officeholders as possible given the time constraints of the virtual convention.
But the slot of “rising star” may have already been filled at this convention with eager anticipation leading up to the speech by Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
The 30-year-old didn't mention Biden's name during her brief 90 second speech and later pointed out her reasoning with an explanatory tweet stating: "If you were confused, no worries! Convention rules require roll call & nominations for every candidate that passes the delegate threshold. I was asked to 2nd the nom for Sen. Sanders for roll call."
Full Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez speech at DNC 2020:
"Good evening, bienvenidos, and thank you to everyone here today endeavouring toward a better, more just future for our country and our world, in fidelity and gratitude to a mass people’s movement working to establish 21st-century social, economic and human rights, including guaranteed health care, higher education, living wages and labour rights for all people in the United States.
A movement striving to recognize and repair the wounds of racial injustice, colonization, misogyny and homophobia. And to propose and build reimagined systems of immigration and foreign policy that turn away from the violence and xenophobia of our past. A movement that realizes the unsustainable brutality of an economy that rewards explosive inequalities of wealth for the few, at the expense of long-term stability for the many. And who organized a historic, grass roots campaign to reclaim our democracy.
In a time when millions of people in the United States are looking for deep systemic solutions to our crisis of mass evictions, unemployment, and lack of health care, en el espíritu del pueblo, and out of a love for all people, I hereby second the nomination of Senator Bernard Sanders of Vermont for president of the United States of America."