Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the 28-year-old Bronx-native who unseated 10-term incumbent Rep. Joe Crowley when she won Tuesday’s Democratic primary in New York’s 14th Congressional District, made her first late-show appearance with Stephen Colbert last night. Ocasio-Cortez had a chance to reflect on her 15-point win that went against poll predictions, explaining, “I don’t think polling is always right. Here’s the big thing: [with] polling, people try to identify who is the most likely person to turn out and what we did is we changed who turns out and that changes the whole election.”
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She also talked about what was going through her mind in the reaction video of her finding out she won and introduced the American public, some of whom may be wary of her Democratic Socialist label, to her very reasonable platform. “The value for me is that I believe in a modern, moral and wealthy society, no person in America should be too poor to live,” Ocasio-Cortez explained. “That’s what I think. It seems pretty simple. So what that means to me is…healthcare as a human right, it means that every child no matter where you are born should have access to a college or trade school education if they so choose it, and I think no person should be homeless if we can have public structures and public policy to allow for people to have homes and food and lead a dignified life in the United States.”
And in the last minute of her interview, she shared her thoughts about critic President Donald Trump. “Well, you know the President is from Queens and with all due respect, half of my district is from Queens, but I don’t think he knows how to deal with a girl from the Bronx,” she said. Watch the full interview below:
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