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The Michael Berry Show

A Reminder That AOC Was Chosen From A Casting Call

The Michael Berry Show

KTRH

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2024

⏱️ 8 minutes

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The Michael Berry show

0:02.5

Every couple of years I am reminded that Alexandria Ocasio Cortez became a congressman. Do you remember do you remember this?

0:10.9

And I'll mention it to a couple of people and see the reaction and every time I do this every few years in between

0:18.1

I realize a lot of people don't know the story behind this

0:22.1

It's crazy long before she was the Democrat nominee for

0:26.7

Congress in her congressional district. Sandy, as was her nickname, all of it was created just as Barack Obama was Barry

0:37.6

Satero, all of it was created by people for a narrative, but hers is really crazy.

0:48.9

Let me tell you the story, in case you don't know.

0:52.2

Alexandra Rojas serves as the Executive Director of Justice Democrats.

1:02.0

So she leads a team dedicated to identifying and preparing primary

1:07.4

challengers. And by the way, this is something Republicans don't do and the problem is the Democrats have the Democrats

1:17.5

don't leave elections.

1:20.4

The Democrats don't leave elections to the voters. The voters think they have a choice.

1:25.0

It's kind of like when a business ends up buying all the competitor businesses

1:31.0

but they keep them operating under their own name

1:34.3

so consumers think they have a choice.

1:36.9

They are not gonna I'm not gonna buy that anymore I'm gonna go over here and buy this

1:40.3

where you're buying it from the same people but it's it's they give you the

1:43.1

illusion you have a choice. So this group the Justice Democrats their focus is on

1:49.5

recruiting individuals usually young from working class backgrounds,

1:57.0

particularly black and brown folks, and they go against incumbents in the Democrat primaries.

2:07.0

The incumbents just as we want to get rid of the moderate Republicans,

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