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US ELECTION 2024
REPRESENTATIVE ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (NEW YORK)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: AOC at the DNC 2024
REPRESENTATIVE ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ (NEW YORK)
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez: AOC at the DNC 2024
Original article: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO7SE4Zpd9s
Peter Burgess COMMENTARY
For me AOC is a breath of fresh air. For some reason I can relate to her youthful enthusiasm together with a good combination of intellectual curiosity and competence and real world practicality.
Peter Burgess
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Aug 20, 2024
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Chicago, thank you for your energy!
To love this country is to fight for its people - working people. Everyday people. All the people.
Imagine a White House where our leaders truly get working class people. That’s Kamala and Tim.
Over the next 78 days, let’s pour our heart and soul into making it happen. Elect them, and let’s pave the way for a better future—one that truly serves the people.
Transcript
- 0:00
- [Applause]
- please welcome New York representative
- Alexandria Ocasio
- Cortez thank you
- Chicago thank you Chicago for your
- energy thank you kamla Harris and Tim
- Walls for your
- vision thank you thank
- you thank
- you thank you Chicago for your energy
- thank you kamla Harris and Tim Walls for
- your
- vision and thank you Joe Biden
- 1:00
- for your
- leadership you know six years ago I was
- taking omelet orders as a waitress in
- New York
- City I didn't have health
- insurance my family was fighting off
- foreclosure and we were struggling with
- bills after my dad passed away
- unexpectedly from cancer
- like millions of
- Americans we were just looking for an
- honest
- shake and we were tired of a cynical
- politics that seemed blind to the
- realities of working
- people it was
- then only through the Miracles of
- democracy and community that the good
- people of the Bronx and queens chose
- someone like me to elect them in
- 2:05
- Congress and
- America in my heart I know from that
- same cloth of Hope and aspiration we
- will also elect kamla Harris and Tim
- Walls as presidents and vice presidents
- of the United States of
- America I am here tonight because
- America has before us a rare and
- precious
- opportunity in kamla Harris we have a
- chance to elect a president who is for
- the middle class because she is from the
- middle
- class she understands the urgency of
- rent checks and groceries and
- prescriptions she is as committed to our
- reproductive and civil rights as she is
- to taking our on corporate
- 3:04
- greed and she is working
- tirelessly to secure a ceasefire in Gaza
- and bringing hostages
- home in kamla Harris I see a leader who
- understands I see a leader with a real
- commitment to a better future for
- Working
- Families and Chicago we have to help her
- win because we know that Donald Trump
- would sell this country for a dollar if
- it meant lining his own pockets and
- greasing the palms of his Wall Street
- friends and I for one am tired about of
- hearing about how a two bit Union Buster
- thinks of himself as more of a patriot
- 4:00
- than the woman who fights every single
- day to lift working people out from
- under the boots of greed trampling on
- our way of
- life the truth is
- done you cannot love this country if you
- only fight for the wealthy and big
- business to love this country is to
- fight for its people
- all people working people everyday
- Americans like bartenders and Factory
- workers and fast food cashiers who punch
- a clock and are on their feet all day in
- some of the toughest jobs out
- there you
- know ever since I got
- elected Republicans have attacked me me
- 5:00
- by saying that I should go back to
- bartending but let me tell you I'm happy
- to any day of the week because there is
- nothing wrong with working for a
- living
- imagine imagine having leaders in the
- White House who understand that leaders
- like kamla and
- Tim but
- Chicago just because the choice is clear
- to us does not mean that the path will
- be easy over the next 78 days we will
- have to pour every ounce every minute
- every moment into making history on
- November
- 5th
- but we can't cannot send comma and Tim
- 6:02
- to the White House
- Alone Together We Must also elect strong
- Democratic majorities in the house and
- in the Senate so that we can deliver on
- an ambitious agenda for the
- people because if you are a working
- parent trying to afford rent and child
- care comma is for you if you are a
- senior who had to go back to work
- because your retirement didn't stretch
- far enough kamla is for
- you if you're an immigrant family just
- starting your American story Kamala is
- for
- you
- America when we knock on our neighbors
- door organize our communities and elect
- 7:00
- kamla Harris to the presidency on
- November 5th we will send a loud message
- that the people of this nation will not
- go back we choose A New Path and open
- the door to a new day one that is for
- the people and by the people thank you
- thank you very much God bless God bless
- you all